Comments on: Converting One off Visitors to your Blog into Regular Readers

By: SearchingWellness

SearchingWellness — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:48:23 +0000

Oh no, I have so much to do still. I share Ryan McLean’s concern… so few readers. :(

By: Ryan McLean

Ryan McLean — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:46:53 +0000

I struggle to get readers to sign up for my feed. After 5 months I have between 0-9 readers. Its so frustrating

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:57:30 +0000

Well I have just started blogging recently, and out of all the resources out there (including Blogger help centre), I have found this problogger site the most useful.

Many thanks to your contributions to the community. My site is more of a rare niche – as it’s about the music industry. Not too sure how to up my readers – because i have none! haha But following the advice (& given that it’s only been a few days), that might change soon. Best of luck!

By: Josh Hall

Josh Hall — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:45:36 +0000

Well, I’ll give it a shot. I think my site might be too much at once, and no real direction on where they should stick around. Mystery is a good one though. Thanks for the post full of suggestions.

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:40:57 +0000

My welcome page is full of sensual stuff and mystery so i tried making it a static front page. So it wouldn’t be hidden away among the other pages. But then I was running Bad Neighborhood to check on my links and it only looked at the static page. It ignored the rest of my blog. When i took it off it ran fine. So I think I should leave it off so the search engines can find all the posts. And the mystery had to go back into it’s page hideaway.

By: Niko Bellic

Niko Bellic — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:04:53 +0000

Give something for free perhaps, a contest, then run another one shortly after and you’ll have people coming back to enter and see the updates.

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By: Alan Thomas

Alan Thomas — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:03:16 +0000

On a related subject – how do you convert one off adsense clickers to regular clickers? I have found that when I get that spike in readership I get a spike in income. Then it dies down – and while base readership is up a bit – the adsense income retuns to a trickle.

Is it that adsense only works with first time browsers – who A. then know where the ads are placed and then look around them for the regular content or B. if you are in a small niche for content your readers soon will have seen all the ads that will be delivered to them.

Any thoughts?

Alan Thomas
Rowing Science Weblog

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:43:38 +0000

Great stuff. It’s always a great mindset to have returning readers than always new ones.

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By: TiVo Blogger

TiVo Blogger — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:00:04 +0000

I just wanted to add that return visitors, while always good to have around, will sometimes not do much for your revenue. Return visitors tend to become accustomed to the look of your site, and they learn not to look at your ads. I’m wondering if it might pay to change the ad layout on your blog once every few weeks. Particularly if you have a large number of return visitors. If the bulk of your traffic comes from search engines, this might not be needed? Any thoughts?

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Joel S. Hollingsworth » — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:39:38 +0000

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By: Thomas Jay Cubb

Thomas Jay Cubb — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:41:22 +0000

I have a couple of extra points.

1. Naming your posts imaginatively also goes a long way. A good caption can launch a thousand hits. ‘Catchy’ catches’em, I think.

2. Keep your posts short and sweet. The form should suit the medium. Long posts, if not exceedingly well-written, are turn-offs.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:13:04 +0000

I’m a bit late to this conversation but wanted to add: I have a static link on my blog that points to a post that invites questions. This effectively lets readers start new topics. If they can’t find existing posts & commentary on their topic, they just post it as a new comment in the “ask Kathy” post. Then I usually make a new topic with my reply, & we end up with a whole new discussion thread. It works really well both for new content creation & reader interactivity! :)

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:59:54 +0000

I don’t have enough visitors yet to say anything from experience, but as Mark and EmilyB say, surely feeds are more important than newsletters? I got so sick of having my inbox clogged with newsletters that I had no time to read when they arrived… and once my mail is marked as read, it doesn’t get a second chance unless it demands an answer. That’s why news feeds are such a relief.

Darren, I notice you have 2 flavours of RSS, *and* Atom feeds, all on the auto-discovery doodah. (As well as feedster etc icons.) Is there software out there that only allows certain types of feed? My poor little Blogger account only provides Atom by default, does that mean I’m losing, say, 1/3 of my visitors?

(Fortunately I don’t think it’s possible to lose 1/3 of one person :-)

By: mark

mark — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:23:14 +0000

Of course!.I do the same as yunasville – I try to create complete thoughts, rather than ask questions and invite readers to comment. I have to start inviting comments.

EmilyB – I’m the same way – I can’t keep up with sites that don’t have a feed, but don’t forget how few people still use feeds. Of course, if I practiced what I preached, I’d have an email newsletter as well as a feed on my site! Do you think that some people don’t use feeds because they can lose track of visitors?

By: EmilyB

EmilyB — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:20:46 +0000

This is great :)! I see that you already have an RSS feed for your site, but I’d love to see incorporation of RSS as a recommendation for getting return visitors. These days time is so tight that unless a site has a feed I can syndicate I just don’t bookmark it – I put aside time on the weekend to check RSS feeds where I can filter the content myself, but I just don’t have time to be checking a bookmarked site every few days to see if something new has been added.

I think your ideas about interacting with the audience and having projects are great too, thanks for the post :)