How to Keep People on Your Blog Longer

While many people have set a goal of multiple goals, there is one universal goal that everyone should be trying to attain. No matter what type of blogger you are – writing for a personal blog, for a company, or for profit in general, you want to be able to attract new visitors to your blog and retain them for as long as possible without forcing them to stay on your blog. In other words, your blog should be able to meet the readers’ expectations without having to spend too much time promoting your site, spending time and money elsewhere on advertising.
The Benefits of Keeping Someone on Your Blog Longer

1. Your visitors will end up visiting more of your internal pages and discovering what you have to offer versus if they had quickly left the site.
   


2. Your sales will likely increase, as your readers will become more connected with your site. This means more cash in your pocket.
   


3. More readers will recommend your blog and content, leading even more people to spend more time on your blog down the road.

How to Keep People on Your Blog Longer

While it may be impossible to keep people on your site if you don’t have any content, the following are some tips on how to get the most out of your readers’ stay.

1. Be sure that your site is complete
   
   This includes your theme, sidebars, etc. If you don’t have this, people will assume that your blog is still “in construction” and leave quickly thereafter.
   


2. Add something your readers can “take away” from your site
   
   Something such as newsletters, downloads, or tips – in general, a product that ensures they will be branded with a good impression of your site, returning to see if you’ve updated or added new products.
   


3. Allow readers to share your content
   
   The popular AddThis and universal Add To Any wordpress plugin do wonders in allowing readers to share your content, leading more people to visit individual posts.
   


4. Link to related posts
   
   A very effective technique to encourage your readers to visit more pages on your blog is to link to other related posts within or at the end of your posts. There are a couple ways you can do this and the best way is to use a wordpress plugin such as Simple Tags.
   


5. Create longer, more structured posts
   
   Even if you write a long, say one thousand word post, it won’t get the same level of traffic as a shorter, three hundred word post that has been structured and isn’t a single paragraph.
   


6. Ensure that your blog’s load speed is optimized and fast-loading
   
   There are several methods of addressing this, such as reducing the size of images, your theme’s code, and so on, but with the rise of broadband, it shouldn’t be a major issue unless dozens of widgets have been placed within your sidebars.
   


7. Make sure everything “works”
   
   If there are broken links and images that don’t display, it’ll become obvious that you aren’t taking blogging seriously – leading them to leave at a quicker pace.
   Conclusion
   
   The truth is, you need traffic to sustain a well-developed backbone of central content. Once visitors discover this, they will continue to visit your site, awaiting each post or new product. At this point, you have nearly limitless options as to how large your blog will grow.

Trik Menulis kode Html di Blogger

Saya akan sampaikan sebuah trik menulis kode html di blogger secara otomatis. Bagi anda yang senang membuat tutorial mungkin pernah bingung bahkan kesal ketika hendak memposting tulisan yang didalamnya terdapat kode html. Masalahnya ketika kode html diketik pada tab "edit html" atau tab "tulis" kode tersebut tidak tampil pada halaman posting anda. penyebabnya tentu saja karena blogger tidak menerima karakter-karakter kode html

seperti:

untuk menampilkan kode html tersebut di blog anda harus menuliskan konversi dari karakter kode html tersebut. kode tersebut harus anda ketik seperti ini

<div></div><span></span> <a href=""></a>

Bayangkan kalo harus menulis kode html seperti ini dalam postingan anda, bisa pusing tujuh keliling, meningan posting artikel lain :D.

Nah, dalam Top Trik edisi kali ini saya berbagi sebuah informasi tentang tool online yang bisa mengkonvesri tulisan ke kode html. Sangat berguna buat anda khususnya para pemula yang sering menulis kode html pada postingan, seperti untuk menulis tutorial.

Blogger Ad Converter

Dengan tool ini seberapa banyakpun kode html yang ingin anda tulis di blog anda cukup memasukan tulisan yang ingin ditampilkan dan klik convert, kode html untuk halaman blog anda pun sudah jadi.

Selain tool tersebut masih banyak alat lain untuk mengkonversi kode html seperti:

http://www.blogcrwods.com/resources/parse.html.php

http://www.opinionatedgeek.com/DotNet/Tools/HTMLEncode/Encode.aspxhttp://centricle.com/tools/html-entities/

Sekian dulu postingan kali ini mudah-mudahan bisa membantu anda dalam menulis kode html di blog khususnya bagi anda yang masih baru terjun ke dunia blogging. Happy blogging!

Cara Pasang Video di Blog dari Youtube

Salah satu cara bagi Anda untuk membuat pengunjung lebih senang dengan Anda, adalah Anda memberikan sesuatu yang lebih. Jika di kebanyakan blog tutorial hanya membahas step by step tanpa screenshoot Anda harus membuat screenshoot untuk membuat pengunjung lebih paham. Dan yang terbaik tentu saja video tutorial sehingga pengunjung benar-benar tahu perpindahan cursor dan itu menuntun mereka dengan lebih baik.

Bagaimana menambahkan video ke postingan Anda. Kita dapat menggunakan video dari youtube yang saya rasa super lengkap koleksinya.
1. Silahkan ke youtube.com dan temukan video yang Anda inginkan
2. Katakan saja Anda ke alamat ini http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzlOYaeOwU , silahkan klik.
3. Setelah terbuka Anda dapat dengan mudah mengambil kode embed dengan klik kanan pada bagian video. Lalu pilih Copy Embed Video

4. Atau jika ingin prosedural dan Anda bisa setting silahkan gunakan tool di bagian bawah. Klik tombol Embed di bagian bawah video.
5. Anda bisa memilih ukuran dan pengaturan garis disana. Setelah anda klik ukuran atau centang penampilan garis, kode embed otomatis berubah. Copy kode tersebut.

6. Sekarang silahkan buat postingan baru
7. Gunakan tab EDIT HTML, dan bukan Compose/Tulis
8. Paste kode yang tadi Anda dapatkan disana.

9. Jika sudah silahkan Anda berpindah ke tab Compose/Tulis. Sekarang kode berubah menjadi kotak object. Anda bisa menambahkan tulisan dan keterangan untuk kemudian di publish.

Semoga bermanfaat dan membuat pengunjung lebih betah,