6 Killer Ways to Involve Readers to Your Blog
This post is written by our contributor Rajesh Balana who blogs at Dream Bloggers . If you would like to write for Shanker Bakshi dot Com, Join our Team.
We talked about 45 ways to drive traffic to your blog a while back, the next step is the get your blog visitor/reader involve with your blog. we are giving you here 6 killer ways that help you make your readers involve to your blog.
Blogging is a dynamic job, it needs you to keep on changing according to your reader’s interests. Writing more and more articles is not the job of blogger. First and the most prioritized task is to keep your reader feel interested while reading your blog.
As you know “First Impression is the Last Impression” so for making a first impression on your reader you must have unique and interesting content with beautiful blog design. Making your blog design beautiful and making it fast loading, embeds positive affect over the visitor.
So here are the few ways to increase your reader’s interest in your blog:
Write Neat & Clean Blog Posts
Quality is the King. Whenever you write in your blog make sure that your post must not be “smashed” together. Write the content in attractive & clean manner.
You can follow these tips:
- Write article maximum of 300-400 words.
- Always try to use points (bulleted lists).
- Include introduction & conclusion to the post.
- Divide it into sub-parts (paragraphs).
- Use effective & good-looking images.
[1] Apply a Decent Theme Design
It is one of the toughest job & difficult step in blogging. First thing which your readers notice is the design of your blog. So, always select a theme with simple layout, with light colors. If you are using WordPress then I my opinion, Thesis would be the best option because it is easily customizable, seo optimized, fast loading etc.
[2] Stick to your niche
It is important if you are writing a blog on health; always stick your blog posts related to health only. If you are writing article about different than your readers will start losing interest and you will not be able to get targeted traffic to your blog.
[3] Make your blog & article Interactive
You are not blogging for yourself; you are doing it for your readers. So it is your prime duty to involve your readers into your blog posts. Writing like a zombie author, will leads to huge loss.
[4] Organize Event & giveaways
You can organize various giveaways and events on your blog, like top commentator, guest author contributor. It will make your blog more like a place to have fun and a place to gain knowledge too.
[5] Analyze & Respect your readers
Analyzing your readers’ means, you should interact with your readers and ask them about their opinion about your blog. You can use various plugins which can help you getting feedback from your visitors.
Respecting your readers stands for replying to the comment of the readers, whether the comment is positive or negative, don’t criticize your reader, try to post reply in a very calm and positive manner.
[6] Interlink your blog posts
Interlinking your old & related blog posts is the best approach to make your reader engaged in your blog. While reading an article, sometimes few questions arise in the mind of reader, whose answers can be fulfilled by your interlinked blog posts.
You can use this plugin: Insights
Do you have any other idea to make your keep your readers engaged? Do share with us.
Well, I particularly support all your ideas. But, I guess tip no. 2 and 5 are of particular importance as it had helped my previous blog grow exponentially. Also, personally mentioning reader names in blog post helps a lot.
i usually prefer custom made theme for my blog to appear unique . i took a free theme and customized it for my use
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the best way to involve a reader in your blog write something that makes him loving your blog
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some very good points made. I will follow these
Good tips especial for noobs (like me). I will add one, have at least one picture per post
You have made some great points. I will use them