How to get regular readers -part1

After following my series on increasing blog traffic, you might have got a few extra traffic by now.

You may also have noticed that most of the traffic that visits a blog are temporary. So how do you make these one-time readers come again and again? In other words, how do we get regular readers? Read on to find out…

Regular readers do not translate into regular comments. Being a regular reader is like joining a community and sharing your ideas regularly. But there are regular readers who just stay shy and watch what’s going on in a blog and do not contribute their comments. Such people are called lurkers.

But they have their own reason for not commenting. It could be because they are also subscribers to many other blogs.

So getting back…how do we get regular readers? Let me share a few tips with you.

Original Content

The first step is to write useful, well written and engaging posts. Do not reblog. No one will come to visit your blog to read something they already read in other blogs. If your readers like what they read the first time they find your site they are more likely to come back.

Page Design

Most of the traffic to a blog will not enter directly from the homepage,which is why individual page design is important. Make your individual pages as attractive and easy to navigate as your homepage.

Create a navigation bar and put it on every page on your blog. The navigation bar should link to just the important pages.

Guide your readers

When a new reader reaches your blog, they will scan through what is displayed and will leave soon.To keep them longer on your blog, provide them with more on the same topic. Here’s how you can do it:

Link within your posts to older posts that are relevant whenever possible.
If you use WordPress, install related entries plugin. This will help you to pick relevant posts automatically.
Include a link to the category you have published the post you are writing in. This also helps your readers to find more similar content.

Explain what you blog about in a few words

If your first time blog readers cannot make out on what topic you mainly blog, they might just leave. Explain what you blog about in a few words, on every page of your blog.

Here at JohnTP.com, I blog about topics that fall into the main categories of Technology and Internet. So I chose- Technology,Computers & Internet.

A good place for this is under your logo. Be sure to put them on every page of your blog.

You may also want to read Part 2 of this series.

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