This is just for you:
It’s about your readers — you’d better listen up.
Pamela Wilson, in her blog post 8 Incredibly Simple Ways to Get More People to Read Your Content, notes:
Writing less and styling your text so it’s easy to read could be all you need to do to attract and hold attention.
What can you do to engage your readers so they lean into your content, stay on your pages and interact with your information?
Well, a quick Googling of Amazon led me two to books I’d like to read too:
- How to Start a Blog That People Will Read (ebook)
- Breathe Life into Your Story (paperback)
This is all stuff I need to remember here at Ain’t Complicated. And at Anabaptists and Panting Hart.
Are you a writer? What practices do you have that help you engage readers?
Are you a reader? (You must be…) What do you look for in the opening paragraph(s) or on the first screen to decide whether to read on or move along?
I will not be much help to you here because I find few things as terrifying/paralyzing as reading how-to-get-people-to-read-your-blog articles or actually trying to write in such a way as to attract more readers.
An analogy: do you attract more people to Jesus by reading lots of how-to-witness books or by getting to know Jesus better?
I have learned this: if something “works” I keep that in mind for next time.
That be good input, Dorcas. And valuable reminders also. Danke (is Google Translate’s version of what I say). 🙂