How To Make Visitors Stick Around

Answer: Put internal links in your content.

Too few sites do this nowadays, preferring to blend AdSense ads into their site’s content. This may be good for revenue, but it’s not good for long-term site growth. If you want a visitor to remember your site and come back, they’ve got to see more than one page. And the way to do this is with internal links.

Many people link to other websites inside their posts. This is easy to do. Whatever pages you’re referring to, you can put a link to. That’s an easy way to give your visitors value-added information, while potentially raising your reputation too. Google and other search engines like when you’re part of good link neighborhoods. Obviously, you want to refrain from linking to a spam site. But if it’s a site you found useful or interesting, a link to it could very well do you good, both with Google and your actual human visitors.

Links in your content will give your visitors other ways to explore your site. Let me know you around TrackForward a bit. If you’re a new visitor, welcome! If you’re a returning visitor, I’m glad to have you again, and I hope you enjoy your stay.

One of my favorite sections of TrackForward is the Videos category. Take a look if you’re interested in videos, as these are my personal picks that I found both intriguing and helpful.

I can also highly recommend the Next Internet Millionaire category, where I’ve touched briefly on how that show has changed my perspective on business. I was able to meet Jason Stanley Marshall, a friendly guy with a heart for God. He has an interest in Internet Marketing, and was one of the finalists on Joel Comm’s Internet reality show. I wish him only the best, and I’m keeping in touch with everything he does. Come to think of it, I haven’t heard from him lately. Maybe I should check in. I’m sure he’s just as busy as I am, if not more so. It seems there’s just never enough time in the day.

I’m currently looking at how to make blogs more user-friendly. Blogs today are not very sticky. There are a few techniques I have seen which can make blogs more personal and sticky. Most of these are difficult to implement. But a simple way is to have a newsletter and send personalized newsletters to your readers. This can be very time-consuming, but it’s well worth the effort. You can build a relationship with your readers this way.

I’ll finish with a link to the inspiration for this post, which was called Don’t Rely on Sidebars and Headers to Guide Your Visitors. A closely related thought, but certainly not quite the same.