Get Your Blog More Readers By Answering Questions
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Over at DigitGeek we recently started an ‘Ask us‘ section where people could ask us hardware related questions and get it answered by us. So far we have been continuously getting questions and answering them as soon as possible in a new post. Answering questions helped us get more readers, comments and make the site more active.
In the beginning I was afraid whether anyone would ask questions on a new blog, so to get things started I asked my brother and some friends to leave a question. I also wrote about the ‘Ask us’ section on this blog and let a few StumbleUpon friends know about it which brought in some traffic to the page (the page is now daily getting some traffic to it from StumbleUpon after the stumbles it got from a few users).
After a question is answered, I edit the comment and link to the post where we had answered them. I believe that people get encouraged to ask questions when they find that the previous questions have already been answered.
Over time the blog will have answers to many questions and should drive in traffic from Search Engines and other sources and help new visitors with similar problems. It will also help the blog get more page views and make more money.
I think starting a Q & A section on a blog is a great idea and I will mostly be doing it for my new blogs too. Some bloggers like Darren Rowse, Daniel Scocco and Shoemoney have already been doing this for a while and I suggest that you give it a try too. Let me know if it helps.
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Posted on March 22nd, 2008 | Category: Blogging |
OldSailor
March 23, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I agree. Q & A section in the blog definitely increases reader interaction with the blog and gives value addition.
lax
March 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Yes it works really…
thaks to john..good
lax
March 24, 2008 at 12:09 pm
More tips like this
Avinash
March 24, 2008 at 9:36 pm
hi buddy your info is cool hope this helps by blog get good traffic too….
Dave
March 24, 2008 at 10:11 pm
This is a super tip. I think, many times, people are afraid to ask questions that they feel are silly so I set up a form page for people to ask questions. I’ve posted two Q/A posts using questions from readers. I’ve received 38 questions since March 7th. While I cannot answer all questions there are many that can be used for content. Especially when I get writer’s block!!
Thank you John
– Dave
Carlo
March 27, 2008 at 2:53 am
thanks for the post. i hope to read some more.
Best regards from Sebbi
Matt Haller
March 28, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Hey,
Its a superb tip. I think its really going to work well. I’ll definitely going to try it out on my own blog.
Blessings
Matt Haller
karthik sridharan
March 28, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Dear John
This strategy is nice like the begginers like me.I have been blogging since a year. I read that 4 parts of your traffic post which is very helpful to me.i have altered accordingly.For the past few months i have taken blogging very seriously and working on it baecause its my passion. Can u pl take some time to spend on my blog, and give me some feedbacks on how to enhance…
Thanks in advance
karthik Sridharan
Rakshit
March 29, 2008 at 3:35 pm
This is really a very good idea to increase the number of readers and also to keep our site active all the time.
I will surely going to implement that soon. Thanks for your valuable suggestion.
ekonomikgundem
March 31, 2008 at 12:25 am
Yes it works really…
Thanks John..
Ben
March 31, 2008 at 5:43 am
Hi John
Excellent idea.. Impressed man!
ericm
April 19, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Thank you the tips John, I’m proud of you
Bloddard.com
April 24, 2008 at 8:06 am
This is superb. Do you answer all kinds of tech questions or just questions related to the hardware you review? Because I Have some questions of my own I’d like to submit.
Adam
April 28, 2008 at 1:39 pm
This is really one of the best approaches that will help you to increase the traffic of your blog.
Therefore, if you are involved in other activities except for blogging it would be extremely hard to manage fulfilling all the tasks at one time. In this case, you would hardly manage to give necessary feedbacks to everybody. This will create a sense of being ignored, which consequently will reduce the number of your readers.
prast
May 1, 2008 at 7:08 am
nice tips John..
caTcode
May 2, 2008 at 7:10 am
How if you have hundred comments a day from some of your blogs?
will you answered all?
Paul
May 9, 2008 at 8:24 am
Yes, it works better than a poll. Be aware you may get ramdom questions or questions that make no sense.
Luke
May 15, 2008 at 1:05 am
That was a good - and simple - read, many thanks, im going to give it a try right now.
Emirham
May 23, 2008 at 4:05 pm
That is a fantastic idea. I have a blog where I offer free blog reviews and that brings in a similar sort of traffic, where people get a free review and recommend the site to their friends to get free reviews from too.
Tom At The Home Business Archive
May 25, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Great tips! I have never thought of that idea before.A Q&A section would keep the site active and generate more visitors too.
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June 1, 2008 at 3:51 am
Q&A, or support can be quite time consuming isn´t it?
Temi
June 7, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Great idea, have seen many Q & A sites coming on the top during searches. Q & A is a good idea as far as the content quality is good.
myBrainfart
June 18, 2008 at 5:05 am
Awesome! One question, is this a threaded comments plug-in? How’s it work?
Girish
June 23, 2008 at 12:21 am
This is really a great tip. John, you are a thinking blogger !
Srinivas
June 26, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Dear john,
The information which you have given is really good. As a new blogger, eagerly I am searching for the same topic. I will be thankful to you, if you give the useful tips like this.
Thank you,
Srinivas,
http://www.mybusinessjourney.com
e.k.
July 8, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Yes it works really. Thanks for your suggestions.
charles
July 24, 2008 at 8:58 am
HI!
Thanks for the information john. It would really help me alot in my traffic because i only got spikes and flats in my traffic. I want it to be growing constantly. But thank you for that wonderful and informative post.
Charles
http://www.resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com
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July 25, 2008 at 8:59 am
I agreed with you John
Q&A not just make people always comes to read, ask and whatever..
But reply ans asnwer will make visitors feel good and come back later.
It’s traffic make in the long run ^_^