Comments on: Converting First Time Visitors to Loyal Readers

By: Inchirieri Masini

Inchirieri Masini — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:17:23 +0000

Great post, I will really use these tips what I need them. Thank you.

By: Mel Menzies

Mel Menzies — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:22:58 +0000

Thanks for this Darren. I do well with search engine traffic but though I read your 21 sticky points ages ago, converting 1st timers to regulars is my biggest problem. A look at my categories and tags reveals that visitors rarely click on them. I regularly include links to related posts – then I think that perhaps people are sick of my self-promotion. (I recently had a very nasty and libellous accusation made about me on a prominent website in respect of the charities I support so it’s dented my confidence a bit). But I’m going to take a good look at what you recommend for sneeze pages. Love the terminology! Thanks again.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:11:30 +0000

Thanks for this post, yeah I think this will allow the first time users to come again and again and I think its the content that will bring the user again to the blog.

By: herocious

herocious — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:50:11 +0000

Over at TOE, we added a Popular Posts section as well as related posts. It has helped raise our page views. To get more readers, we made our Subscription Section more prominent.

I agree, visitors don’t usually click on categories.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:28:55 +0000

I think that this is a great tip for bloggers. I will try to apply them in my blog. I haven’t been able to attract loyal readers so far.

By: Royal Blogger

Royal Blogger — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:23:41 +0000

Converting First Time Visitors to Loyal Readers seems to work the best for this website. I can remembers days before I was searching something and find this very website. From that days I don’t know why, how, when but I become one of the Loyal Reader of brother Darrens’ portal ……

By: Armand

Armand — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:28:21 +0000

I saw many people using Twitter as a track back replacement too.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:38:32 +0000

I have offered monthly newsletter subscription with a free e-book on sign up, subscribe via rss or e-mail also.
Haven’t done sneeze pages but will try it out.

By: Make Money Online

Make Money Online — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:48:49 +0000

I think AdSense ads are a bad idea for any new blog and even established ones. I think the value of those clicks possibly turning into life time readers is way more then a few bucks from AdSense, thought i think AdSense is great on some sites.

By: Hary

Hary — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:40:20 +0000

Hm..Sneeze pages is good idea to convert visitor into reader, darren. I think i should try this in my blog.

By: Belkis

Belkis — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:06:14 +0000

I think the redesign tip is very useful. People love to immediately see change and that is what keeps them coming back.

By: Agent 001

Agent 001 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:07:51 +0000

Getting Loyal Readers is very important. Thanks for the tips on converting first timers to loyal visitors.

By: Eric Young

Eric Young — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:00:25 +0000

Thanks for this interesting post & good advice!

By: blogfest

blogfest — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:14:23 +0000

Partially agree with three steps suggested.

I have mixed views for redesign

It is a kind of risk, specially with new blogs as visitors get annoyed by complete change in blog design.

By: andy li

andy li — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:32:17 +0000

Congratulations with those blog stats. Very impressive.

Redesign may be a good idea; who wouldn’t want to look fresh if they know it works?

Related posts and highlight important and past posts are always good too. Various ways to strike up old conversations and begin new ones.

My blog has very little visitors, but I guess it’s okay. I’m still trying to find my way around the blogosphere, so patience is virtue for me for the time being.

Thanks for the good advice everyone!

By: Make Money Online Tips

Make Money Online Tips — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:18:04 +0000

Nice post. I think you have achieved quite good in quite less time on twitip. You can do better with the tactics you plan. The design is really nice and Thesis theme is the favorite of many for SEO i guess.

By: Nick Field

Nick Field — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:14:14 +0000

Some things that I’ve done to increase subscriptions:

1.
I’ve put two links before the fold on my site. Meaning when you get to my whistlerwatch.com a link to subscriptions can be seen twice. Once it is shown in my navigation link, beside where my about page and once in the left hand column.

2.
I’ve made a contest, so that anytime a reader subscribes they are in a contest to win $50 cash. I choose 1 in 100 subscribers randomly and donate $50 to them. It’s incentive, for them to join. Once they’ve joined I rarely find that they unsubscribe.

3.
I remind them to subscribe in some of my better posts. If there’’s content that I find is really quite good, I’ll put a sentence reading: if you find this useful, you should subscribe. That seems to work.

By: Elizabeth Stanfill

Elizabeth Stanfill — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:05:52 +0000

Thanks Darren,

The first thing I am going to do, right now, is number 2. What a great idea.

Elizabeth Stanfill

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:26:10 +0000

As a not new but inexperience Twitter user, most of the time I couldn’t follow what you were posting on Twitip. I would really appreciate #2.

I also want to know how to customize my page.

Thanks.

By: Lynn Henriksen

Lynn Henriksen — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:22:50 +0000

Actually found your site through a message you left me on Twitter – that must be one of the ways you get traffic. Great idea, but I don’t know how to send a message with the “Lynn is now following you.” Anyone have a suggestion for me?

Very informative site! I’ve subscribed to your feed. Thank you.