Is Your Blog Grabbing Your Visitors’ Attention?
Spending your precious time on your blog should be compensated in some way, right? I mean, why put forth all of that effort if no one cares to read what you have to say and just leaves right away?
Notice in the title I used “visitors” and not readers. You first have to convince your blog visitors to stay awhile and actually read your blog before you can call them readers. Makes sense… I hope.
Getting people to stick around and become a reader, which in turn provides comments on your posts, involves a few factors. These factors can include your blog design, the content (what you write) and the style of your writing.
This certainly isn’t the all-inclusive list to go by, but these are some of the main factors you may want to consider if you just can’t seem to get anyone to take notice of your hard work.
I wrote a guest post on HowToSpoter about 3 Tips to a Better Blog where I go more in-depth regarding these three factors and what you can do to turn that sucky blog of yours into a masterpiece worthy of readers.
Be sure to read the post and comment. You’ll see me over there as well replying back.
What have I done to improve this blog?
One of the major updates I made to this blog was installing a new blog theme. Granted, I didn’t think my blog sucked (hopefully not), but it certainly was due for a face-lift, I thought. The new FlexSqueeze Theme is definitely way more modern than what I used to have and allowed me to customize every aspect of the design.
The content on here I think is pretty good, but I’d love to hear what you have to say about. I try to be as personable as possible and provide a relaxed reading environment, something I hope you all enjoy. Of course, there’s always something to learn here, so let me know if I need to clarify/expand on anything. Afterall, I try to write for you, my readers. 
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Twitter: kaiserthesage
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Great guest post there Alan, I dropped a quick comment as well
getting visitors to be converted as followers is kind of hard these days, knowing that there are a lot of good blogs around to follow. I think the most effective way to do that is to give your new visitors free stuffs in order for them to come back and read more of your tips.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Jason @ Affiliate Marketing Forum,
I agree, an incentive of some sort can be very helpful. I see many big-name bloggers doing this. I have yet to get my OWN e-book written, but I do offer a free newsletter with many free downloads. Hopefully my e-book will see the light of day in the near future.
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I agree with what Jason wrote. There are now a lot of blogs that are worth following and it will soon be impossible to follow all of them. Providing an incentive to your followers might help. If you constantly offer people answers to their problems they just might come back.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Gadget Guy,
Welcome to my blog, and thanks for contributing. See my reply to Jason about incentives.
What kind of questions would you like to see me answer? Have any of your own?
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Twitter: thespotter
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Alan,
Importance of appearance is definitely overlooked by many. Not only it should be appealing to the eye but also functional for people to actually want to come back and read the blog content again
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Alex Sysoef,
Hey Alex! It’s a pleasure and honor to have you stop by.
I agree, functionality is just as important and should be a consideration when designing the blog.
Thanks for your input.
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Excellent Post, Alan. Kudos for making the distinction between readers and visitors.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Karl,
Thanks Karl… much appreciated.
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