As a blogger i visit many blogs daily and when ever i found an
interesting blog i just subscribe to that blog via email for latest
updates. But not all blogs i visit are in my good books. Some websites i
visit will force me to leave the website as soon as possible. So what
is going wrong with that website i mean definitely the webmaster of that
website have put in a lot of efforts to make his or her site perform
better but still there are some crucial things in every website which
needs to be correct other wise you may lose precious visitor which may
become customer in future.
1. Popups.
Some people think that its a cool idea to show some ads via popup
when some one visits there blog but unfortunately 95% people hate
popups. Its really a cheap idea to show ads to your visitor and not only
it will hurt the image of your blog in the eyes of visitor but sear
engines also don’t like popup and may penalize your blog. If you want to
show the ads just put them in the sidebar or footer of your blog, don’t
do silly thing like this.
2. Website Loading Time.
If your blog takes ages to load than people will not wait and move to
another blog. I know internet speeds are grown over the years and now
many people have access to the high speed internet but still you have to
target the whole audience including the dial-up users as well. Some
times slow speed can be because of your slow web-host servers so try to
move your blog from slow to high speed web-host for better loading time.
You can read my article 10 Tips to Reduce Blog Loading Time.
3. No Fresh ideas.
I think if you are publishing same old ideas again and again this is
the main reason why your blog visitors are not getting back. many
bloggers reproduce same articles again with some new title to fool
readers but now people are very knowledgeable and they can very easily
and quickly guess which blog is producing original content and which is
reproducing ideas from other blogs. So try to produce your own blend
with some unique ideas and than see the magic.
4. Not replying to your blog Comments
Everyone in this world want to be appreciated by others and that why
if you are not replying to your blog comments commentator will thought
that you are not giving importance to him or her and next thing you can
expect from them. Easily you can loose many visitors by such laziness.
Manage some time for answering your blog comments every day and you will
feel that visitors are coming back to your blog frequently.
5. Lots of Ads less Content.
I know everybody wants to earn as much money as they can but what if
your blog visitor can only see ads specially above the fold. This will
surly put negative impression in the minds of visitors and they might
not read the article for which they come to your website.
6. Not updating your blog frequently.
Although its not necessary to update your blog daily but what if you
post only 4 or 5 articles in whole month. This is not going to help you
and your blog readers will rate your site as dead site and move on to
another website. In my suggestion you should at least post 15 -30
articles in one month so that your blog look more up to date.
7. Poor Blog Navigation.
If your blog has categories and archive than why are you hiding these
pages. Its very important to present nice and easy navigation to your
blog visitors so that they can easily find what they want. What if you
have write an articles months ago than this article will surly be hidden
some where in your blog pages. So one must show popular posts, most
commented post and your most important post on the front page of your
blog.
8. Funky theme colors.
What if you are using many colors in your blog theme and specially
red color which is the represents only for danger. Yes you can use red
color if you have a blog related to valentine or blood etc. Always try
to make a combination of light colors like white with blue or green or
any light color which you want. Also try to use less colors and one main
color to represent your blog. Confuse which theme to choose here are
top 10 best Free WordPress themes for you.
9. Rubbish Fonts and Size.
It doesn’t mean that if you like some thing than other are also like
it. If you use rubbish fonts on your blog with size greater than 18px
than its time for you to adjust your blog and use font which are more
common and can easily be available on every one’s computer. Also avoid
using too many flash files as these files require plugin to show up and
if visitors has no flash plugin install than your blog will look
horrible.
10. Sharing unrelated content on Facebook Fan page.
You Facebook fan page is the place where your blog readers can visit
and remain update with your blog updates. If you post constantly
unrelated content on you fan page than sooner or later people will start
leaving your fan page and hence your blog too. Read article on how to customize your Facebook fan page.