Getting regular readers is the ultimate goal of every blogger. Visitors come to your blog from several places like search engines, article directories, blog catalogs, social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, etc. The time they spend on your website and their subsequent visit depends on the content of your website and how you treat your visitors. Giving a personalized touch to your readers is a must to gain regular visitors. You should make a family with your readers. Following are the ways to improve readership in this way
- Ask questions to your readers in blog posts. It will motivate them to think about your niche area.
- You should encourage visitors to post comments on your blog.
- Whenever a reader posts a comment on any blog post, you should reply to them without delay. The reader should not feel ignored. You can also refer reader’s comments in the next posts.
- More engagement and association with readers will encourage them to share your blogs with their friends.
- Posts should be a balance of quality, entertainment, and humor.
- Regularly update the blog. Without this random visitors cannot be converted to regular ones.
- Ask for suggestions from visitors and regular readers.
- E-mail to regular readers (subscribers). You should inform them about any updates.
- You should disclose your identity through the “About Me” option. Your location, qualifications, etc help readers to make you an online friend. Nobody can be connected easily with a virtual identity.
- Never use harsh or insulting words in your blog posts.
- You should encourage visitors to get subscribed.
- You should give sharing options for your articles to your visitors. If they like something, there should be an option to share it with their friends. It will grow your family.