Entries Tagged ‘passive reader’

One of the key issues with any upcoming blog is the low level of participation from the readers. A few posts ago I had talked about some of the possible reasons why your readers are passive. In this post I shall put together a few tips that could be of help for some of you to improve the reader participation and prolong his stay.

Possible positive actions from a blog reader

The following are some of the actions that your readers could take during his visit to your blog. Please note that I am listing here only those positive actions that result in mutual benefit for the blogger as well as the reader.
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Sixty or seventy percent of my readers are bloggers or webmasters themselves and I guess that is the case with many MMO or SEO blogs as well. Even the organic visitors - those who come via search engines - have some kind of web presence and that is the reason why they hit your blog! Basically, many of your readers are aware of things that they could do with a typical blog.

The unfortunate scenario, though, is that a lot of people who read a blog regularly stay in a passive mode of reading without contributing much to the discussion, comments, bookmarking (social and otherwise) or promoting the content via referring others to what may sound to be a useful write-up.

Top reasons why the reader is passive

There are a number of reasons behind passive readership. Naturally, the blogger himself may not be aware of many. From my point of view, the following are some of the causes behind poor involvement by the readers that the blogger should be aware of and can be corrected accordingly.
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