16/06/2010

What is a Conversion for Your Blog?

What is the #1 thing that you want people to do when they arrive on your blog?
Last week at an event about blogging that I attended I asked the above question to 10 bloggers and jotted down their responses:
2 said ‘click on an ad’
2 said ‘buy my product’
1 said ’subscribe to my RSS feed’
1 said ’subscribe to my newsletter’
4 said they didn’t know

There’s no wrong or right answer to the question – every blog will have a different ‘conversion point’ to it – but it’s a great question to ask yourself from time to time.
Your answer will inform numerous aspects of your blogging including:
How you design your blog – your call to the conversion you’re after should be prominent, above the fold and eye catching

What you blog about – your blog posts should, at the very least, relate to your conversion goals and, at best, should lead people to wanting to take the action you’re after.

Your promotional activities – knowing what you want people to do when they arrive on your blog can inform your decisions on where and how to promote your blog.

So what is the number 1 thing that you want people to DO when they arrive on your blog?

Written by: Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net

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