When someone visits your business blog, you want them to stay as long as possible and come back periodically to learn more about the products and services that you are selling. If you use an analytics tool to track and measure the average time that visitors stay on your site, you may start to feel discouraged if you see that this number is lower then you’d like it to be.
So how do you increase the traffic and readability of your blog? Here are some tips that can help:
Relevant Content:
This one is probably a no-brainer, but there are many blogs that attempt to cover a wide variety of topics all at once. This makes them seem to have no real focus. Alternatively, a blog that features relevant content without veering off into tangent topic areas appears more authoritative. This doesn’t mean that all of your posts have to be about the same topic, but you should have a basic overall theme that is directly relevant to your industry.
Adding Categories:
Internet users expect to be able to locate the information that they want quickly, without a lot of extensive searching. Adding categories to your blog will allow visitors to see which types of information you offer and allow them to find information that they are looking for.
Including Media:
Adding photos, audio clips, and short videos to your blog is a great way to break up the monotony of paragraph after paragraph of text. Adding media also makes your blog stand out and can create a polished, professional, technology-savvy look and feel.
These are just some of the many ways that you can improve and increase your blog’s traffic and readability. Check out this article for 46 Ways to Promote Your Blog.
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About the author: Jeune Ortiz is VP of Marketing and Creative Director at future-ink. With more than 20 years of experience in graphic design and marketing, Jeune brings extensive knowledge and creativity to each website and internet marketing solution to grow your business.
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