Get Your Blog More Readers By Answering Questions

Answer reader questions Over at The Hardware Reviews we recently started an ‘Ask us‘ section where people could ask us hardware related questions and get it answered by us. So far we have been continuously getting questions and answering them as soon as possible in a new post. Answering questions helped us get more readers, comments and make the site more active.

In the beginning I was afraid whether anyone would ask questions on a new blog, so to get things started I asked my brother and some friends to leave a question. I also wrote about the ‘Ask us’ section on this blog and let a few StumbleUpon friends know about it which brought in some traffic to the page (the page is now daily getting some traffic to it from StumbleUpon after the stumbles it got from a few users).

After a question is answered, I edit the comment and link to the post where we had answered them. I believe that people get encouraged to ask questions when they find that the previous questions have already been answered.

Over time the blog will have answers to many questions and should drive in traffic from Search Engines and other sources and help new visitors with similar problems. It will also help the blog get more page views and make more money.

I think starting a Q & A section on a blog is a great idea and I will mostly be doing it for my new blogs too. Some bloggers like Darren Rowse, Daniel Scocco and Shoemoney have already been doing this for a while and I suggest that you give it a try too. Let me know if it helps.

Posted on March 22nd, 2008 | Category: Blogging |

14 Responses so far »

OldSailor

March 23, 2008 at 3:52 pm

I agree. Q & A section in the blog definitely increases reader interaction with the blog and gives value addition.

lax

March 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm

Yes it works really…
thaks to john..good

lax

March 24, 2008 at 12:09 pm

More tips like this

Avinash

March 24, 2008 at 9:36 pm

hi buddy your info is cool hope this helps by blog get good traffic too….

Dave

March 24, 2008 at 10:11 pm

This is a super tip. I think, many times, people are afraid to ask questions that they feel are silly so I set up a form page for people to ask questions. I’ve posted two Q/A posts using questions from readers. I’ve received 38 questions since March 7th. While I cannot answer all questions there are many that can be used for content. Especially when I get writer’s block!!
Thank you John

– Dave

Carlo

March 27, 2008 at 2:53 am

thanks for the post. i hope to read some more.
Best regards from Sebbi

Matt Haller

March 28, 2008 at 3:43 pm

Hey,

Its a superb tip. I think its really going to work well. I’ll definitely going to try it out on my own blog.

Blessings
Matt Haller

karthik sridharan

March 28, 2008 at 4:44 pm

Dear John

This strategy is nice like the begginers like me.I have been blogging since a year. I read that 4 parts of your traffic post which is very helpful to me.i have altered accordingly.For the past few months i have taken blogging very seriously and working on it baecause its my passion. Can u pl take some time to spend on my blog, and give me some feedbacks on how to enhance…

Thanks in advance

karthik Sridharan

Rakshit

March 29, 2008 at 3:35 pm

This is really a very good idea to increase the number of readers and also to keep our site active all the time.

I will surely going to implement that soon. Thanks for your valuable suggestion.

ekonomikgundem

March 31, 2008 at 12:25 am

Yes it works really…
Thanks John..

Ben

March 31, 2008 at 5:43 am

Hi John

Excellent idea.. Impressed man!

Bloddard.com

April 24, 2008 at 8:06 am

This is superb. Do you answer all kinds of tech questions or just questions related to the hardware you review? Because I Have some questions of my own I’d like to submit.