How to Make Your Blog Readers Read Your Entire Post

8 out of 10 people will read title post, but only 2 out of 10 will read the entire post. You may have a lot of visitors coming but what’s the value of those if you will lose most of them in a matter of seconds? How can you make visitors read your entire post?

Is there a technique on making your visitors read your entire post? How about asking yourself what is the most important part of your post aside from the title? If your answer is the opening paragraph, then you are absolutely right.

But how do we make an opening paragraph that will compile the visitors to read the entire post? I am not a good speaker but I believe that when it comes to grabbing the attention of your audience, blogging and speaking share the same techniques.

So, here is the 5 ways to have an opening paragraph that will capture the reader’s imagination and pull them deeper into reading the entire content.

1. Ask Engaging Question
Opening a question is an effective way to create curiosity and gets the reader thinking. Question will bring active engagement to the rest of your post.

2. Use Anecdotes
Anecdotes work wonder holding your readers attention in crucial opening. They can grab your reader’s attention especially if the quote comes from recognizable authority or famous person.

3. Trigger Reader’s Imagination
Activate the minds of your reader by engaging them into imagination. Produce mental pictures into reader’s mind, use words like imagine and picture this are very powerful technique

4. Use an Analogy, Metaphor or Similes
Analogies, metaphors and similes are great ways to capture reader’s attention. They are very effective when it comes to telling a story. They provoke mental imagery that allows readers to tell a story to themselves.

5. Shocking Statistics
This post itself employed this technique telling you - 8 out of 10 people will read title post, but only 2 out of 10 will read the entire post. This will work effectively when it is unique, startling, or even shocking. The statistic should also be directly relevant to the point of your post as well.

The above my not be the complete list on how to make your blog readers read your entire post. So, if you have other ways to fasten your visitors to read your entire post, please put them on the comment area.

Good luck! I hope you learn something from this post.


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