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How to hook readers in a webpage

Your website is getting traffic but readers are going away, a common  problem many bloggers looking to get answer. 

Blogging is lot different than writing news, specially if you are a niche blogger it's tough to hook user in your blog page, order your book, ask question, or book your consultation. 

Blogging is considered evergreen medium, and promoted as a quick fix to make money. Companies know the more you write the more hooks they will get. Because writing is tough job. In frustration of posting more you will end up writing about something quickly and linking some webpages. Psychology of achieving more plays crucial role at this point. 

Anyone can start a blog, but if you are blogging to promote your product or offer a service or content is the main product, in either case you need to do wise blogging. 

Many blogger and fortunately or unfortunately expert blogger struggle to make living through blogging. 

Some of the common reasons of not so successful blogging are:

Poor content structure

Readibility

No research focus

Wrong facts or no facts

No attention to editing 

Missing target audience

Poor proofreading

No space for references

Hurry for publishing

Not making similar posts

Keyword stuffing

Reprocessed data

Counting too much on things like automation for writing, it's a human thing. 

Keyword stuffing

Boring content, who want to read. 

Using too many third party links. 

Sending content to social media without content repurposing. 

Lack of access to you or your services. 

Lack of clarity in targeting audience. 

These are very-very common mistakes even expert blogger do and get the bad results. 

Many blogger might be making one of those mistakes or might be some different. Identify your mistakes, work on those for successful blogging career. Hook reader in your webpage. Hack Gaps

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