Comments on: How to tease your blog readers and gain more page views

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:33:57 +0000

Hey thanks for this. I did not know I could tease my visitors. This really helps as it cuts down the amount of space my posts take up on the homepage. I just need to figure out how to change the term: ‘read the rest of this entry’ as it could be better. I am going to do it now on; freebets.ca thanks again.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:29:31 +0000

Vivien,

Thanks for the tip. Checking it out now…

All the best,
Richard

By: Vivien

Vivien — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:08:11 +0000

Hi Richard. Welcome to Inspiration Bit. A blog teaser is different from splitting the longer articles into two or more. You can certainly do that. I've been doing it lately with my Behind The Scenes of Exquisite Web Typography posts. You can also use a special plugin when writing long series of articles. There is a great guest article here, written by Ronald on Writing Series. Certainly worth looking into it.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:01:13 +0000

Vivian, hi there. I just did a google search on “blog tease separate post” and your article came up. I like the idea of the teasers in blogs and think it is a great technique. I am researching right now about the possibility of doing teasers in the actual main article.

For instance, if you have a good really long article, what do you think about “splitting up into two” and saying to the readers “tune in tomorrow for part two.”

I’m only 1 week into my blogging so I don’t know if this is a good idea or not.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Richard

PS: Maybe we should both do a test and report back on our results :)

By: Vivien

Vivien — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:59:10 +0000

oh, I still offer full feeds to my readers, so I don’t quite see how post teasers influence the number of RSS feed count.
What I usually do lately is I keep the first couple of posts on my blog in a full view and the rest show up with teasers. This way my blog doesn’t load forever, especially if there are a number of images included in the posts.

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:13:38 +0000

It’s a good suggestion, though I stopped doing it a while back and saw my RSS subscriptions skyrocket. So I always feel like that is the trade off…

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:05:54 +0000

I've also written something on this piece, perhaps you could check it out.

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By: ibit

ibit — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:11:25 +0000

You’re welcome :-)

By: Healthy Body

Healthy Body — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:43:58 +0000

I always wondered hoe to do this: thanks for the heads up.