It is a question that most of the bloggers wanna know. I can say it is relatively easy to drive initial traffic to your site/blog. For example, leaving your URLs as the signature of your forum and emails. People are quite willing to visit your site. But the problem is: How to make them to stay close with your blog and make them to be your constant traffic?
I know many of you have probably opened up your web stats and found out that you are getting bombarded with visitors. It could have been caused by a link from a large site, by a tons of blogs linking to you, by an increase in search engine rankings, or by getting to digg's homepage. So with all these first time visitors coming into your blog, how can you convert them into regular readers?
1. Write Content on a Regular Basis
Writing content on a regular basis that can benefit readers is one way to get them coming back to your blog. I always mention it in my fourm as well as in the Adsense Help Group. Another effective strategy is writing a part series and that is, if a new visitor like part 1, there is a good chance he or she will come back to read the coming part series.
2. Be Creative and Unexpected
Keep visitors on their toes, spice up your regular routine with something different every once in awhile, it will keep your blog away from being boring. If visitors are excited by your blog they will of course subscribe your feed and stay close with you.
3. Make Things Easy for Your Visitors
Making things usable and easier on the visitor can drastically increase your conversion rate. If your content is hard to read, it is very unlikely that visitors will come back to read your blog. If they want to subscribe to your RSS feed then make it easy for them.
4. Make Your Blog Message Very Clear on Every Page
If your reader cannot work out what is the point of your blog within a few seconds they will probably take off pretty quickly. Ask yourself this question - What message are you sending about your blog?
5. Pay Premium Attention to Conversation
Write content that talk to them. By doing this you can create a conversation and allow visitors to comment. I always welcome all to comment on each of my posts, and I will always try my best to reply them. Of course, give a thanks to them is a must. Aim about building a relationship with your visitors. Have an atmosphere of enabling conversation to take place. Encourage them to come back and make a visit again.
6. Give Your Visitors Great Attention
Don't be selfish to think your blog is all about you. Help your readers when they need help and if they want something from your blog then listen and take it into consideration. That's why my comment is halfly about the questions on Adsense and I also need to reply them through comments. I hope, with the use of my new forum site, these questions can be raised and answered there in the future.
7. Pay Attention to Individual Page Design
Every page is a potential doorway into the rest of your blog. From my statistics, there are quite a lot of people come to my blog through Google searching. They will enter my site in differnet posts. Given this information, you have to make your pages engaging and easy to navigate. It is worth asking a non blogging friend to test your blog’s usability and navigability to see just how easy it is to use.
8. Provide a Link to Other Relevant Posts
You may have written closely relevant to other post. Have their links handy at the end of every article post. Providing them with more on the same topic is logical way of keeping them on your blog. Having a sitemap is also a good suggestion.
9. Promote your RSS Feed
After every post, it's nice to have an active link such as - Please subscribe my blog for updated Adsense secrets.
10. Have a "Search This Blog" Facility
Many visitors would like to use search features to find if you have written topics of their interest. I tend to use the Google search option that Adsense then this not only allows your readers to search your site but gives you an income stream for your blog.
In fact, there are many ways to convert first time visitors into regular readers; these are just some of the ways that I know so far. If you know of any other ways to convert first time visitors into regular blog readers, feel free to leave a comment. Remember, each new reader is a potential regular visitor, and perhaps someone who will link to your blog.
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posted by Adsense Decoder @ 10:07 AM 0 comments
08 February, 2007
Adsense Alternatives 5 - Kontera
Kontera is another contextually-targeted networks that deliver ads based on the content of your site. The matching technology is so-called "Contentlink". According to Kontera, A contextually relevant keyword that is discovered in real-time on a web page from within Kontera´s vast network of publishers, and is automatically turned into a link to the most relevant ad from among Kontera's thousands of advertisers. With ContentLink publishers generate incremental revenue while advertisers reach their most targeted audience on a Cost-Per-Click basis.
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