Tips to keep visitors to your site
Tips to keep visitors to your site
1. Quality Content
The best way to increase visit length is to have quality content on your site. The more interested in your articles the visitor is the more time he/she will spend reading them. I will assume you are already working towards the goal of adding quality content to your site so I'll move on to other ways to increase visit length.
2. Multiple Page Articles
If you have long articles break them down into multiple pages. This will increase your pageviews and also helps those with slow net access. You probably already see a lot of bloggers using this method by listing only the first few paragraphs of a post on the front page with a more... or continue reading link. This tip works for not just blogs though so if ever your articles start breaking the 1000 word mark considering breaking them down into multiple pages.
3. Interactivity
You can increase visit length by offering some form of interactivity that prompts your visitor to actively engage with your site. One of the best examples of this are games, but of course if your site isn't focused on gaming then games might be really out of place. As another example, if you manage a finance blog you might consider offering a collection of calculators and planners that your users can utilize to plan their finances. Obviously you need to find something that matches the interests of your audience.
4. Community
Forums, chatrooms, bulletin boards and any form of membership service helps to keep visitors glued to your site. All these services take time to build up the appropriate critical mass of users. However once your community tools take off the value they provide is hard to beat. People enjoy interacting with other people and if they are doing it on your site then you have more time to show them advertisements or convince them to join a list etc.
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