Oh what a remarkable headline for the post of today. For us C64 geeks this is a well known saying from the game ”Impossible Mission” – And as a blogger you are playing the role of the evil genius Professor Elvin Atombender, trying to get your visitor to stay forever or at least for a while. I do not know if you are planning on taking over the world, but hey you want your blog to grow.
I just need to include the opening from the game here today, yes this game stole many hours from my childhood. Keep reading below the movie for hot tips!
But you need your visitors to stay, thus meaning that you want them to find your content good enough to keep reading. You need to get them to hang around for a while, maybe comment a bit, and buy your services or you might just want to see that your visitors enjoy your content enough to continue reading. There might be several reasons you want your readers to stay. No matter what your reasons are visitors who linger around is a healthy sign for your blog.
I recently wrote about Bounce Rate here. Read it and follow my blog to see how my project is doing.
Tip 1: The End Teaser
The teaser at the end is actually the best tip of today. I have included an ending about what to do next on several posts on my leadership blog. I will have a teaser at the end of this blog as well. I will even call it a teaser, but be more creative; “what to do next!” “Other fun stuff to do at my blog” and so on.
Tip 2: Use Google Analytics
In Google Analytics you can see your most frequent landing pages, and the bounce rate for each of them. You might want to tweak these pages, especially those with high bounce rate, as it might give great return on your time spent. If you do not have a end teaser, insert one, proof read and even update.
Tip 3: Make a how to subscribe to my blog page.
Instead of sending your traffic instantly to feedburner, twitter or facebook, create a subscribe page like this and display all your options for your reader in one page. This gives your readers a chance to see all the options and select the one best fit.
Teaser
Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoy my blog. There is more to do, and you should read the post about bounce rate as I am implementing these tactics to my leadership blog as we speak. My goal is to reduce bounce rate from 75 % to less than 60 % within the next 10 blog posts. So far I have managed to reduce it to 70,73 % in just three days. If you like my blog please do subscribe to my blog or continue reading other blog tips.
