Carry out some polls or surveys
Polls and survey when combined with other forms of interaction provide amazing results. obviously people will not come to you site for the sake of a poll but one thing is for sure if you try to involve them in your decisions or ask them something that they won’t mind giving and information through polls they your are sure to make good fortunes with your site. Only thing that you need to be sure of is that you take out polls for only topics that target your market. Just don’t throw out any poll for the sake of having a poll.
Hold contests. Quizzes and games
Your readership may vary be very widespread but one place where all your users will be on same platform is the mental tension and stress levels. You can use this to your benefit by providing them the luxury of playing games and enjoying and all this while they would be happily earning some bucks for it as well. Once a gamer always a gamer. This would ensure that you retain high number of visitors.
Hope that you would have found these tips helpful.
Here are those golden rules.
Start a forum
A forum is easy to start and this gives freedom of speech to your users to have their piece on the topics raised. You can also start similar things like chat room or shout box. This way you increase the chances of visitors interacting with you. This is the most popular method and highly effective method to get beck your visitors.
Start a blog
A blog sometimes turns out to be a better value than the site itself. It is because blogs not only helps in getting your users updated but also allow opportunities to clear their doubts directly from you. also you can publish updates about your main site or business. This would ensure that they check out your site every time that they come to your blog.
More tips in the next post.
The success of a website is directly proportional to the rate by which it manages to gets it users back. Ideally a combination of 60 percent new visits and 40 percent returning visits is considered to be ideal. The importance of returning users increases in the case if you are looking to sell something. I most of the cases it is not the first time visitors that convert into sales but the returning visitors. However this sale is directly proportional to effectiveness of your content.
In a series of 3 posts I would share with you some of the basic rules to get back your visitors.
Tell the user where he is
This is one of the must follow rules of any web design. If a reader has been directed to your site by a search engine through any other link or has by himself reached a place, he should always know where to go from here. There is every possible chance that by adding this to your site the number of loyal readers and visitor will increase.
Stay away from audio on your site
Please follow this golden rule of retaining readers. You should not annoy your readers by some stupid song playing in their heads while they are trying to understand the content. However if you want to persist with it because some users like it them make sure that you provide the user with adequate control of the audio option.
Don’t use too many banner advertisements
The present visitors are far advanced than what we used to have in the early 2000 or so. Now a day’s viewers simply ignore any kind of advertisements. By getting excessive banners ads you are simply wasting your time and money. A better solution here would be to put in some quality content and then get affiliate links into that content.
Have a simple and clear navigation
Be sure to provide your users very simple and straightforward navigation menus. How simple? You have to make it simple for a young kid to reach wherever he wants to go into your site. Please do make it a point to stay away from all those flash and other tiered menu system. They are simply ridiculous.
