How to make your readers stay longer on your blog or website
You have any interest in what your readers stay as long as possible on your blog.
Because the more they stay longer, they will click on your links. The more they buy your products. And the more you increase your chances of seeing perform the actions you desire.
Here are some tips:
keep visitors longer
1. Get them through feedback
Install the plugin for wordpress Subscribe To Comments Reloaded.
This well-known plugin allows your visitors to subscribe by email to the comments of an article, in order to follow the discussion.
Ideal for them to come back again and again :)
2. Propose "Similar items"
Those who read an article to the end will certainly be interested to read other articles on the same subject.
How do they propose? easy:
Install the Similar Posts plugin.
This will automatically add "similar items" at the end of each article. You have an example below it;)
3. Analyze your bounce rate
Bounce rate is the percentage of visitors leave the site after consulting only a single page.
The pages with high bounce rates are those that make you lose your visitors. They arrive on these pages and leave them without going further.
It is important to identify these pages and try to improve them.
For this is simple:
1. Go to Google Analytics
2. Go to "Content> Site Content> All Pages"
3. Click to view advanced settings (see below):
bounce rate
4. Create two filters as below:
bounce rate
This filter will only show you the pages that have:
a rebound greater than 80
at least received 100 visitors
The idea is to improve these pages in order to lower the bounce rate.
5. Do SIMPLE and GOOD
One of the main causes for a high bounce rate is that the article is hard to read. It does not catch.
Here are some simple rules to improve your reading rate:
1. Be SHORT: Write short sentences, short paragraphs, short articles.
2. Make lists like these. Not only are they easy to read, but most people like to read lists.
3. Use simple words. Words understood.
4. Aerate your texts. Skip the lines. Structure your text into small parts easy to read.
In short, you guessed it: go to the essentials.
And you? What do you do for your visitors to stay as long as possible on your blog?
Because the more they stay longer, they will click on your links. The more they buy your products. And the more you increase your chances of seeing perform the actions you desire.
Here are some tips:
keep visitors longer
1. Get them through feedback
Install the plugin for wordpress Subscribe To Comments Reloaded.
This well-known plugin allows your visitors to subscribe by email to the comments of an article, in order to follow the discussion.
Ideal for them to come back again and again :)
2. Propose "Similar items"
Those who read an article to the end will certainly be interested to read other articles on the same subject.
How do they propose? easy:
Install the Similar Posts plugin.
This will automatically add "similar items" at the end of each article. You have an example below it;)
3. Analyze your bounce rate
Bounce rate is the percentage of visitors leave the site after consulting only a single page.
The pages with high bounce rates are those that make you lose your visitors. They arrive on these pages and leave them without going further.
It is important to identify these pages and try to improve them.
For this is simple:
1. Go to Google Analytics
2. Go to "Content> Site Content> All Pages"
3. Click to view advanced settings (see below):
bounce rate
4. Create two filters as below:
bounce rate
This filter will only show you the pages that have:
a rebound greater than 80
at least received 100 visitors
The idea is to improve these pages in order to lower the bounce rate.
5. Do SIMPLE and GOOD
One of the main causes for a high bounce rate is that the article is hard to read. It does not catch.
Here are some simple rules to improve your reading rate:
1. Be SHORT: Write short sentences, short paragraphs, short articles.
2. Make lists like these. Not only are they easy to read, but most people like to read lists.
3. Use simple words. Words understood.
4. Aerate your texts. Skip the lines. Structure your text into small parts easy to read.
In short, you guessed it: go to the essentials.
And you? What do you do for your visitors to stay as long as possible on your blog?
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