This is a guest post by Liorl who is a web consultant and today, he will be telling us 7 Ways to make your precious visitors leave your blog immediately 😀 So make sure you are not doing anything like this and avoid most of these ways if you can. You can follow him on Twitter @liorl
The simple truth is that, even on the best sites, most visitors leave after reading just one page.
However, there is a big difference between getting visitors what they need in one click and turning them away in disgust. Those who get their needs met will likely come back and, eventually, may subscribe. Those who run away screaming will make it a point to never come back.
So what are some of the things that sites do to make visitors slam the door on the way out? There are many but here are seven of the more issues on the Web.
7. Have Too Few Comments
Many visitors are instantly turned off by sites that have a small number of comments because they view it as the site being either boring or being poorly-visited. You can help this some by changing your “0 Comments” text to read “Leave a Comment” but you need to do everything you can to encourage comments on your site.
Also Read: How To Get More Comments On Your Blog Following 10 Simple Ways
6. Use Boring Titles
Your titles are the first thing most people read and, if they are not interesting, people will think your posts are boring too and leave. Focus on writing better blog titles and use the title as a chance to draw the reader in.
Also read: 5 Killer Secrets To Writing Magnetic Titles
5. Put up Too Much Advertising
Most readers are actually fairly tolerant of ads on a site. There’s a general understanding that websites have to pay the bills but, when advertising begins to actively get in the way of the content, readers head for the doors.
Try to keep your advertising in balance with your content and not let it overwhelm your work. If you do, your visitors will thank you by sticking around.
4. Have an Ugly Design
Though there are literally thousands of great themes for nearly all blogging platforms, this does not mean you can just pick one and go. Making your site look good means taking the time to make sure your theme looks right and fits your site. If your theme looks amateurish, people are going to assume the content is amateurish too and leave in a hurry.
3. Use Popups, of Any Kind
Too much advertising is bad, but having popups, including anything that either lays on top of the content or opens up in a new window, is a sure-fire way to make your visitors click the “back” button. This includes those popups that ask for email addresses for a mailing list, give a chance to chat with a “representative” and so forth. Anything that actively hides the content is likely to be met with a very negative reaction.
2. Play Sound
If your site plays sound with direct permission from the visitor, you can be assured most will pause on your site just long enough to curse you under the breath before leaving. This is an especially large issue for those surfing the Web in libraries, computer labs and other public places.
1. Give them a “Site Not Found/Slow Loading Page”
Of course, the quickest way to turn visitors away from your site is to have them click a link and then nothing load up at all. If your site is down or is just severely slow loading, you can expect that your visitors are going to click away in droves. They might not walk away hating your site, but they won’t be racing to come back either.
Conclusions
The good news is that these are all fairly easy mistakes to avoid. Of all the potential problems, only using a good theme requires any real work and the rest require either just some thought, minor adjustments or simply not abusing your visitors.
In the end, if you show your visitors respect, they will do the same to you. They may not click a second page, but they certainly won’t go out of their way to avoid you.
That, in turn, at least makes it possible to build a long-term relationship in the future.
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If the post is too interesting visitors will always leave comments there. To get visitors on a blog only write the posts that are running today’s age and I very hopeful,the visitors will come and leave the comments there.
Some people keep this point in mind that they should only read the post that have too many comments but not every one. It depends upon the perception of the visitors.
It is absolutely awesome post, Liorl. You really shared the best tips to keep your visitors in your blog longer. I also posted some tips to keep visitors but i could learn more from this article. Thanks for your sharing.
Great article! I like the kind that turn the old standbys on their heads – use a little reverse psychology and humor.
#6 – catchy titles are great, but make sure they’re not just misleadingly catchy.
#5 – I mind ads less when they’re relevant to what I’m reading; I’m there for a reason, so use it.
#3 – don’t make your readers work for it unless you’re really SURE it’s worth it – to THEM. If my reaction is “OMG, not another freaking form!” I’m just going to click away. And never come back. And maybe mark you down on some list that says, “Remember how much you HATED that place? Don’t. go. there. again.”
#2 – thank you, thank you, thank you!! I may enjoy sound while surfing; I may even want to find out more about the kind of music or talk radio or whatever YOU like. But not while I’m at the office or when others in the room might be disturbed. No.
#1 – Um…guilty as charged? Alexa says my site loads slower than 85% of the net, but it doesn’t seem to really bother most visitors and my template’s been so personalized – by me, for me – that I can’t stand to “optimize” it. ::sniff:: come visit anyway. Please. 😉 But yeah, I agree with this one, too. In general, anything with too many bells and whistles and too many moving parts and too-slow load times is a turn-off.
cool post. slow loading sites are a real bug bear of mine. cannot understand why people dont fix these, such a rookie error. sound or music playing on a site just makes me laugh
But low comments doesn’t means that content isn’t good !
You can add: “Weird navigation’ where you can’t even find a link to return to homepage if you accidentally landed to inner pages. and “Salsy pages” can annoy everyone too who just feel site is merely made to sale something.
Whenever I stumble upon new blogs to read, I really hate it when songs suddenly start playing. It may be a good song, but it just annoys me. Plus, a site that’s messy, having too many advertisements and a very confusing theme. And of course, pages that takes forever to load! You’ll just want to leave immediately.
find useful but writer should mention more reason to leave any web page, Agree that if advertisement comes in front of content then sure we’ll leave the page but But not only title tag wilbe useful but all content should be interesting otherwise nobody will revisit here
What is important is that you make sure the content of your blog is very enticing to the reader. There are blogs with great titles but the content sucks. Make it simple yet entertaining. Great list of not-to-dos. This would definitely be of great help to everybody.
all the points are valid points why a visitor never comes back to the site or blog. i have also experienced this situation soon after my blog was just 1 month old lot of my regular visitors are not visiting my blog back. may be i i have made a any one of the mistake what you have mention above. thanks for sharing this tips it will help me to resolve my mistakes.