Daily, many people visit my blog looking for blogging tips or information to monetize their blog. Some of them, read a couple of posts and get a subscription by e-mail, visiting me constantly and taking part in this community. Others, simply read something of their interest and never come back to my blog.

Once, I was a fan a John Cow, I visited his blog everyday and commented on all his posts. But eventually, for some reasons I lost the interest. I don’t want to lose you! Keep coming to my blog please! So In this post I will share my secrets with you, about how I keep my audience coming back to my blog.

The next is a list of 7 things to keep your visitors coming back to your blog, as a magnet attracts the metal!:

1. Giving them what they want: As I told you some lines above, most of my audience are bloggers and marketers. Here, they look for blogging tips, affiliate marketing programs and these kinds of stuff. What if I start to write about Poetry? You don’t need to be Nostradamus to know what will happen here, because it is so obvious that the people will start to leave! So, to avoid this, give to your visitors content related to your blog’s niche.
2. Sending them E-Mails: Let’s face it, nobody will visit your blog everyday. Sometimes, your readers forget about your blog with all the content in Internet waiting to be discovered. In these cases, is good to send them an e-mail reminding them about your existence, maybe with some promotion or just saying hello could be fine.
3. Poking them on social networks: There are many social media networks there. MyBlogLog, Sphinn, Mixx, Digg, Facebook, Propeller blah-blah… There are many social networks where you can interact with your readers. Sending them a simple message in these communities you can attract (again) their attention, and they will come back to your blog to see your advances. Also, you can forget all what I said in this point, and send them a message by Twitter!!.
4. Replying their comments: In an active community, many people leave a message in the posts expressing their thoughts about the topic in question. Although you get several messages, try to reply all (or at least the most) of them. Also a general message replying many of them could be good, but replying your reader’s comments it is the key of this. If you don’t reply their comments, they will feel ignored, and they will not participate in your blog.
5. Referencing their blog: If your visitors have blogs, you should reference them. This idea is not new, but it was getting more importance in the blogosphere the latests month. Referencing to your reader’s blogs, is a signal that represent that you care about them and their blogs. In addition of that, with this you help to increase their backlinks. This is a good way to attract simple visitors and make them your friends.
6. Commenting on their blog: If you referenced their blog, surely you have commented on it. Commenting in other blogs you are spreading your image and brand with many people. For each comment you do in other blog, at least 1 person will visit your blog through your comment, that’s sure. I have attracted some readers through this way.
7. Bribing them: Hahaha I have not reached this level of despair, but still being an alternative . Giving entrecard credits, dollars, free backlinks or whatever you want to give (for free) should work!

Good tips uh? You have 7 choices to keep your visitors coming back to your blog. You don’t need to do all them, but at least the points: 1, 3, 4 and 6 should be constant. Do you have another trick beside mines? So help me and my readers sharing it!

Happy Blogging