Hello Readers, Visitors on any blog can be defined as the buyers of our product. No matter how good our product is, if no one buys it, it’s worthless. Same is the case here with the bloggers. It doesn’t matters how good your content is, if no one is there to read it. Getting one time visitor is not a hard job. You can use facebook, twitter, and other ways to increase the traffic to your website. But making them come again & again is a tough job.
Are you worried about how to handle this tough job? Don’t worry. Post Fever is there to share their experience with you all. Today, I would be sharing here some tips to increase the returning visitors on your blog/website.
Tips To Increase Returning Visitors:
Updated Content
Let’s start from the basics. Think, why do a reader come again to your blog. Obviously because he liked your previous post and is in love with your blog. He would surely be coming back for new updated information and what if, if no new information is being updated on your blog. The person would leave disappointed and god knows when he would be coming back. So, the first and the most important rule to increase your returning visitors is to update your blog content regularly.
Understanding Your Readers
By understanding your readers, I am basically asking you to analyze what kind of people are reading your blog posts. For eg: Suppose you are writing posts for blogging tips. And your readership consists of mainly professional bloggers because you were constantly writing posts like Advanced SEO, & Professional blogging. Suddenly, the next week you are writing posts like “How to Add a Page in wordpress” or “How to add a post in wordpress”. Are you going through the right path? I think I am able to explain this point to you all. Think Upon It.
Subscribe to Comments Option
Amazed! Never thought how this feature can help you out in increasing the percentage of returning visitors. Let’s look through some facts, most of the bloggers just come to your website/blog, read the post and leave comments and will not get back to read who else commented. Why not start a discussion here and let the reader get the notification that someone replied to his comment. The best example of gaining comments through discussions is Facebook. Add this option to your website and see the change.
Add As Bookmark Option
When we generally like any website or information across the web, we generally add it to our bookmarks list. Now, you would say that it is an inbuilt option in the browser then why should we add it on our blog. Here a little bit of psychology would help us. If any reader would see that option live on the site, his chances of bookmarking that website increases by around 200%, because it would remind him every moment to bookmark it.
Adding a Subscription Box
Ya, one of the obvious things we do. But if we combine this thing with the 2nd point i.e, understanding the readers, it becomes almost killer way to increase the number of returning visitors. Let’s see it though this way, you know what your readers are searching for in your blog, and you write the same type of post and they get an email notification about it. BOOM, a sure shot returning visitor.
TIP: Try to make the subscription as simple as possible by adding the subscription box at the end of the post.
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ would surely help to engage the readers. Let’s be with a big heart here. Everyone is little bit selfish. Provide your readers a platform to give the answers to their most general queries. Promise them the answer within 24 hours. Post the answers, they would surely come to get their answers, and that’s the key Hole. The reader is back, and now the 1st point comes into action. Updated Content, readers comes back for the answers, will see the updated content. Hopefully would stay there to read it.
A little Bit Show Off is Required
Yes, A little bit is acceptable. Show off about your hard work, about the number of followers you have, about the number of subscribers you have. People love to be a part of that thing, in which their known are already involved. Use the sidebar effectively, by showing the RSS Subscribers, Twitter Followers, Fans on FB, and ya, remember 1 thing, give them option to like, follow, subscribe at that very place. It will increase the probability of them to follow your blog. And if they follow, they will get regular updates and will surely be returning visitors in the future
Tease Your Readers By Revealing about your Next Posts
Yes, it works and it works really well. Try it. At the end of the post, educated the readers that what exactly your next post would be about. Provide them a little teaser of the articles, may be 50 – 80 words, or just the title. It’s your game, play that as you want to. But do keep one thing in mind, the title of the article should be really catchy and seems to be interesting. Something like “How to make a FB profile” would not work. Because people can google it out, how to do that 
Something like, “Future of Blogging – My Perspective”, if your niche is blogging, it can be a desperate wait call for the readers.
Do Share with us, your views about increasing the returning visitors.
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Varinder Pal Singh
Adding an attractive subscription widget in our blog can boost our subscribers count and readers.Very nice post and well written.One more thing the most important point I always said that update your blog regularly which can increase the blog traffic.
Harneet
Thanks Varinder for your comment. Ya Varinder, updating the blog regularly is an important task to do. Keep Visiting
Mohit Bumb
Cool Nice Article Harneet.
Harneet
Thanks Mohit for your comment. Keep Visiting
Ifham khan
All points are awesome harneet, but the last one is worked for me every time. Whenever I tease my reader for the next post, they surely back to my blog. Also responding your reader is a great way.
Harneet
Thanks ifham for your comment. Ya, teasing the readers is nice and worthy. Keep Visiting
Bharat Chowdary
Using optin forms is also best method to get your visitors back to new blog posts. Thanks for sharing this article.
Harneet
Ya, bharat your absolutely right. It is also one of the best methods. Thanks for the info. Keep Visiting
Sunil Prajapat
interesting post. but according to me engaging with various users in the comments is also one of the great tip tp get returning visitors
Harneet
Thanks sunil for your comment. Ya, you are absolutely right, engaging readers within comments is a great way. Keep Visiting
Seo Pawan Preet Singh
Tease Your Readers By Revealing about your Next Posts creates suspense among reader that what the next post will be
Harneet
Thanks pawan for your comment. Ya, you are absolutely right it creates suspense and increases the returning visitors as well.
amit
Returning users are most important, and they can be increased through Facebook fans, RSS subscriber.
Thanks for Awesome tips.
Harneet
Thanks Amit for dropping a comment. Ya, you are right it can be increased through social media as well. Keep Visiting
Musthafa Ullal
I don’t understand why this Frequently Asked Questions need in blog posts? I guess you should change the heading as “Answer the Queries of your readers”, which will suit well! Rest of the points are worth reading and trying out!
Harneet
Thanks Musthafa for sharing your views with us. Actually, the most easiest way that can be used to answer to the readers queries is by creating a FAQ page. So that was the reason I thought of creating the heading FAQ. I’ll surely take care about the concepts in the upcoming posts. Keep Visiting
Suresh Khanal
Love the last 3 tips you’ve listed there. I will certainly upload a FAQ page as soon as possible in my blog too! I was overlooking it yet.
Harneet
Thanks Suresh for stopping by and dropping a comment. I am happy to hear that readers love the tips given by me. Ya, surely upload the page and do update us with the resuts. Keep Visiting
Navin Kunwar
Making FAQ page including poll can be great idea. what do you think about that ? btw, A little Bit Show Off is Required as you said.
Harneet
Thanks Navin for dropping your comment. Ya, you are right. Including polls can be a great way as well. Because as I can think, if anyone would enter the poll, he/she would surely come to check the poll results. Nice one
Keep Visiting.
Amit Shaw
Hey Harneet Super Article. Great Job Mate.
Adding FAQ pages is really superb idea to gain more returning visitors.
Adding Subscribe to Comments Option is really bit irritate option for readers but its really very use option.
Thanks Harneet for sharing your article with us.
Harneet
Thanks Amit for your comment. Ya, you can try to add faq pages and get returning visitors. Subscribe to comments option is a great option to start discussions. Keep Visiting
Andrew
great post it is full of useful information and it is very interesting, thank you for sharing this post with us i am sure it is going to help a lot of people.
Harneet
Thanks Andrew for your comment. Ya, this is my sole motive andrew, to help my fellow bloggers to reach the heights. Keep Visiting
Shalu Sharma
All your tips are of exceptional quality. Good content, sharing your links on social media and commenting is a good way to drive traffic. Every little helps.
Harneet
Thanks Shalu for your comment. I am trying my level best to make up to the expectations of the readers. Keep Visiting
Ahsan
I have tried all the points. But I love most your last point – Tease Your Readers By Revealing about your Next Posts. It attracts more the old readers. Thanks for adding valuable post
Harneet
Thanks Ahsan for your comment. Ya, by teasing your readers you surely get returning visitors. Keep Visiting
Praveen Kumar
Awesome blog, thanks for information bro i follow your instruction thanks man.
Ehsan
All of the tips which Harneet bro in this post is must to be able to get loyal readers, but which I follow most and is a subscription box.
I have added two email subscription box on my blog, one is at sidebar and another is below every post of my blog. It really helped me gaining more subscribers and turn my normal visitors to loyal readers.
I would like to suggest all the other new Bloggers to focus on the subscription box below your blog posts instead of social sharing buttons!
Noman
Nice post Harneet and yes subscription box is a must for turning your visitors into your loyal visitors. Thanks for sharing it.
sintu kumar
thanks a lot Harneet for the amazing info about traffic generation
Ramesh
Nice post dear… Like the point discussion.. i sure put this option on my blog…
Justin
Hi Harneet,
Great list for keeping your visitors coming back. I recently added a sign up box on my blog from Jet Pack that allows visitors to subscribe to my latest posts.
This is a good option for people who don’t want to sign up for my newsletter.