A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:
1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox
When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers — all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.
2) Start a web log (blog)
Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.
3) Carry out polls or surveys
Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.
4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games
Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.
5) Update frequently with fresh content
Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!
Source: Returning Visitors
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Thanks you Site Admin coz using my article in your blog..
Really appreciate it…
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You can mail me so that the next time i’m commenting here i know who i’m commenting to…
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Hi Shawal
I changed the admin display to my real name, thank you for the hint.
And of course thank you for the good stuff you wrote!
greetz
Michael
thanks for sharing….. 5 points above are enough?
Hi gout
Those 5 points are a very good start to keep your visitors coming back. Of course there might be more, but I would start with those…
…ummm, I hate to say this. But that article is word-for-word from a PLR package. Do a search on the title, and you’ll find LOTS of sites using the exact same article without even changing one word. Duplicate content is a bad thing.
Mo
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Hi Mo
You are right with one thing, this article was originally published elsewhere.
I got it from http://www.shareapost.com.
Why are you so sure that “Duplicate content is a bad thing”? It is a pity that the excellent report “Search Engine Myths exposed” by Jon Leger is no longer available, but it clearly shows that this is a myth…
hallo michael…..I just want add little about sharing or active in forum, don’t forget to get forum with the same topic and interest with your web. and make link with anchor texs…
Hi
You are right – a forum is an excellent idea. I am building this site in small steps as I do not have very much time for it right now, but eventually I will add a forum to it, too…
how about give something free for visitors? ……picture….tips….ebook…etc? I think your visitor will be happy and back next time
For new establish blog, there no money for giving prize or something.. just can do some good discussion with commentator.
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i enjoyed reading the 5 tips you provided because they are really helpful since i would always want my visitors to come back to my website
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Great article and useful tips i think i will apply some of them to my websites
thank you very much indeed
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