Sometimes before you can see any one specific problem, you will have to break things down and apart, bust through the obstacles preventing you from seeing any problems that you have. Those that might be caused by your pride, ego, or inexperience.
If you’re finding it hard to get interaction from or (traffic) to, your Website/Blogs. There are a few questions you need to ask yourself.
Is your information accessible and mobilize? With more and more users searching via mobile devices and always on the go, do you offer this capability?
If you do not, users trying to find you may have hit a Stone wall, when they are out and about and on the go.
There’s nothing worse than trying to find your favorite websites, while on the road and finding out these sites only render from a certain or single venue/page and in a computer related format only and won’t load onto your cell phone, Ipad, and/or the next new device that is now mobile.
I am not talking from experience, just yet, because I have not taken these steps yet myself, but I plan to.
Is your Site/Blog is it properly optimized with keywords or tags, does your logo appear on all your pages, and your branding devices, along with your pen name?
Have you made it as easy for potential users and the search engines to find your content and their pages, do you have a Traffic Wheel?
Do you have a table of content or a TOC? Do you have your sitemaps up and working properly? That means using the correct keywords, linking them properly, making your site as crawl-able as possible for spiders, and staying away from the many common mistakes we newbies will and do make.
Sometimes before you can see any one specific problem you have. You need to break through the obstacles preventing you from seeing any problems at all, which might be caused by your pride, ego, or inexperience.
Seek others opinions, advice, and politely ask them for a review. Seek out a forum or a mentor to aid you in knowing what is hot and in the viewer's face, at any given point in time.
Personal Interaction, Do You Offer Any?
If you want to attract people, you have to give them more of you. You have to stand out from the crowd and show them something that they’ll want to see more of.
That is uniquely from you or how it is they can relate to you and your idea's, your site, and your methods. They may like the way you talk or write to them etc. etc.
Take a look at your own site. Does it have a great home page? If so, do not forget all the rest of its pages make sure they posses a nice clear, clean, and crisp Headline, make sure to keep to a format.
Remember Search Engines Don't send your viewers to only your home page but to the Tag or key word that brought up the association to begin with.
Do you use Sub Headlines with a slightly different size, color, and/or font? Do your links stand out or blend into that format? Do you have a short precise introduction paragraph? What are you showing your potential viewers/customers about your motives?
I don’t mean the ad graphics or the videos you choose to incorporate with your sites template. Do you even follow a template?
Can they experience what you are creating? Can they tell their still in your site when they click other links or did you send them to a new page and forget to tell them to hit the back button to return?
Are you using your site to set yourself apart, or do you come off like everyone else? Are you talking to viewers/customers in their own language or are you filling your pages up with buzzwords and technical jargon they do not yet understand?
The more powerful your differentiation is from the many others out there. Who can't create or relate to you and your style or what you have created, the better!
You’ll attract the right viewers/customers to yourself and your brand who will know others like you and themselves that want and desire your info, style, personality, flare, etc.etc. ,.
If you’re finding it difficult still to attract viewer's, members, leads, Friends, followers, and so on, via your website/ blogs or landing pages (micro mini sites) It may be time to ask yourself some hard questions. But, before you can fix the problem, you first have to identify it.
Find all its quirks. What are some of the problems you’ve had, in the past attracting new leads? How have you fixed those problems? Do others you know and network with talk about these same problems? How did they solve them, have you done a search on them?
Customers Do Not Head to your Sites to Hear How Awesome You Are
They’re there because they have a problem they need you to fix or a question they need you to answer or they share a common Hobby or Dream of yours.
Your website should be designed to help them quickly achieve whatever it is they came for. Too many references of “you, and only you” or too, too much sales talk will turn them cold.
Instead offer more helpful information, and address their concerns or fears and the ones you have had and have worked through. Tell them why and what it is you are working for ie. Your wants/ and or desires.
This sharing will turn people's interest on instead of off or away. Your viewers /customers don’t care about you in most cases at first. All they care about initially is how it is you can help them.
Other things you must seek out and learn about are listed below in no certain order.
Getting Started make a plan and plot it out.
Choosing a Niche make it something you love, anything at all will work If, you love it.
Domain Names remember they will reflect you and what it is you do.
Blogging Platforms have several at least three.
Themes and Organization you'll need them.
Pages, Posts, and Widgets get it together learn from the best and keep learning.
Images, videos, and other Media, visual media it works!
Comments and Discussion/ Interaction
Headlines, Sub headlines and Content Creation Create, Create, Create!
SEO (search engine optimization) it's a must to learn from the best.
Post Lengths and Posting Frequency
Blog promotion, Social Media, Social Networking learn to use them and get involved
Guest Blogging do you allow this or do you want full control of the provided Information?
Sitemaps for your site and for your blogs. Search Engines love sitemaps.
Privacy Policy people want to know this stuff and so will your Partners and Affiliates.
Now Can you be found?
Pen Names
Real name! Do you dare?
Reputation do you have any?
Are you reachable and approachable by email, by snail mail address, and/ or by phone?
Are you willing to interact?
Is there a conversation path in place? And is it a one way or a two way stream? Do you have a FAQ Page?
Viewer's /customers don’t head to your site to hear how awesome you are. They come there because they have a problem, or an interest they need you to elaborate on, or a problem you know how to fix, or a question they need you to answer.
Many websites do not have a clear conversation path for their customers. If you want customers to take a certain action, you need to create a re pore with them. That lets them know how you intend to guide them. And that you are willing to do just that.
Simply stringing together a number of content pages won’t necessarily put someone on the path that you intend for them to take. The path may be a simple landing page, paired with a call to action, or as complex as a micro-niche site or as an expansive website.
Either way, you are in charge of designing the flow of your website. Creating a clear path not only helps customers feel more comfortable on your site, it also gives you a clear data system to track with, so that you can see where people are abandoning your site, where they’re engaging it or enter into it and from where, etc. etc.
The more data you have to act on, the better you can design your site to attract new viewers/customers.
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