Increasing Reader Engagement – 15 Easy Ways to Bring & Keep Blog Visitors

New Bloggers (as well as many who have been blogging for a long time) find it difficult not only to attract new readers , but they often lose people who could easily have become long term readers .

Any time an internet surfer either does not come to your website from a search engine , or does not spend enough time on your blog pages to browse, you lose in more than one ways.

In this post we shall share 15 Easy Ways to Bring in Visitors from Search Engines & ways to Engage Readers to Blogs so that these readers keep coming back to your site over & over again.

1. make your blog design very simple . Keep the colors & fonts readable & test your blog theme in all the popular browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari & Flock
2. keep your blog post very simple, direct & concise – write only about one topic & do not clutter the post with too many varied messages. This helps the reader in focussing & understanding your article easily
3. use simple words in small sentences. Use a good mixture of key words that are relevant to your article. This helps search engines to understand your post & show them up on visitors searches
4. follow the simple layman’s search engine optimization tips . This is more to do with your blogs design, titles, headers & the blog’s layout
5. emphasize key phrases & keywords . You can emphasize various parts of your post by writing them in bold font, underlining sentences & using bullet points
6. try to have a "wow" factor in your blog . Write something that catches attention of your readers. Write something that the readers can easily relate to
7. control your blog advertisements . Although full-page-ads earn more money, pop-up ads pop-under ads earn more money, they are very distracting & readers do not like them. That apart, internet browsers use many tools that will never display your pop ads at all
8. provide users the options to print your article , share your article on social networks & subscribe to your post . Make these options easily visible to your readers
9. ask pertinent questions to readers to encourage discussions. Running Blog Polls & Votes on your article is a quick way for readers to express themselves
10. post regularly & check that your RSS Feeds are working fine. A typical blog readers usually follows more than 50 blogs. Unless you post regularly, your readers will forget you very easily
11. use plugins to show similar posts to the article. This helps the readers to browser all related posts without having to go through all your articles
12. answer questions & comments from readers. At the same time, clearly mark comments left by automatic bots as spam. People often leave irrelevant messages with their URL thinking it helps them to increase their inbound link count. Too bad, because search engines eliminate these links
13. provide additional reference information in the form of videos, PDF downloads & white papers. If they are not your own, pass credits to the copyright holder
14. praise other posts & blog articles that you think is worth a read. Readers view this as a gesture as being helpful & sincere while the copyright holders see you as collaborators rather than competitors
15. show only relevant advertisements. Sign up with reputed advertisers only. Be sure to mark your blog for appropriate readerships, like General, PG, Adult etc. Use the same when selecting ads for your blogs