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Does your blog keep visitors returning part 3?
By Mike | October 11, 2007
This is the second post in a series that is talking about a blog post I found over at the about.com blog.
They highlighted four ways to improve this. We have discussed the first two and today we will finish the last two.
The first is to write in a friendly engaging style. Keep it short and keep it personal.
Writing for the web (in most areas) is personal. Make it fun to read. Obviously sometimes you are covering a technical topic. I do it all the time here.
I do try to keep it interesting and approach it in a style that won’t have your eyes quickly glazing over. Don’t succeed all the time but that is my intention.
The last item the article discussed may be the most important to me.
Respond to your comments.
A blog is (or at least should be) a conversation. If you write well enough to generate comments keep it going by responding.
Whether you agree or disagree with me I try to respond to miost comments. Now this blog is a little bit different in that I do ask for specific questions and those I tend not to respond to in the post but…
I do create a post to answer the question in detail.
So a final review of the 4 items to help keep visitors coming back.
1. Create an Eye-Pleasing Design
2. Create Catchy Titles and Great Opening Paragraphs
3. Friendly Engaging Content
4. Respond to comments
Try these 4 and see if they don’t help to increase the number of returning visitors.
As always you can leave your questions about WordPress and blogging in general or if you agree or disagree in the comments box below.
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