Welcome New Visitors to Your Blog

Posted: May 13, 2014

Everybody wants to feel welcome. Making new visitors to a blog feel welcome can have a big impact on their impression of it. These simple and easy tips can help give any blog a welcoming feel.

Ali Luke, editor for Daily Blog Tips, shares how you can make new visitors feel welcome when they visit your blog.

Does Your Blog Make New Visitors Feel Welcome?

If you’ve been running your blog for a while, especially if you have a loyal following of long-term readers, it’s easy not to think much about new visitors.

But of course, if you want your blog to grow, you need to cater for newcomers. They need to feel welcome – not excluded by loads of in-jokes, or confused about what’s happening on your blog.

These four tips should help you strike a good balance, so that visitors are able to find their way around quickly, but long-term readers don’t feel like you’re constantly re-explaining the basics.

#1: Have an Up-to-Date About Page

Regular readers aren’t likely to visit your About page (unless, perhaps, they’re blogging about you and want some extra information). Newcomers, though, will often head there on their first visit.

If your About page is clearly out of date, it’s not going to create a good impression.

Read the entire article Does Your Blog Make New Visitors Feel Welcome? on Daily Blog Tips.