Social Media Tip of the Day: Retaining Your Readers with Stickiness

Posted on December 27, 2010

Getting people to your Website, Blog, Facebook page, or other social site is one thing, getting them to come back or read your feeds and updates regularly is another thing entirely.

Below are some tips that can help make your pages and feeds sticky. We will return to this topic often, so stay tuned…

Keep your posts open-ended where applicable so visitors can return and respond
Run contests so visitors will return – but run them sporadically so they will have to return to the site to see the latest offerings
Offer discounts or specials only available when visitors are on your site or page
Update your feed regularly, even if the entries are short
Offer surveys or polls on your sites: Most CMS platforms have plugins for this, social networking sites like Facebook have applications, and Widgetbox has a great selection that you can place on about any site

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About the Author:

Deltina Hay is the author of the critically acclaimed book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization. The second edition of her book, renamed The Social Media Survival Guide, will be released in spring 2011. Learn more about Deltina, her books, and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to Deltina’s video tutorial series on YouTube: The Internet Empowerment Series.

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