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6 Types of Blog Readers Online
Alvin Phang  
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I recently did this online survey here and I can say the results has been very promising. It’s really interesting when I try to understand you guys better, yes Alvin does track what you see. =)

Anyway do not worry I do not know where you stay all I know is where you came from and what you often see =) If you wondering how I track just use this free service here =) In the past I used to be very very active into checking comments and reading comments online.

In a blogger’s point of view the more comments you have on the blog the better as it proves your blog has a community and a life of it’s own. I love reading people’s comments and stuff as I learn new things from people what they talk and share about.

Here’s are some of the common type of readers you will experience from blogs

1. Readers who come in to spy on you

Yes! you will be suprised there are many people online who spy on me, but’s it’s alright I welcome them too because in my way of thinking if I am good enough to be spied means I am somewhat doing something right that they want to know what I do =P

One way to entertained this group of people just keep on revealing secrets to them they love it =)

2. Readers who come to support

The opposite good thing of spy would be great valued supporters, I do see from time and time again great supporters who often come to my blog and I really want to thank you for your support =)

Supporter normally are the kind of people who would reply on post and post comments on posts. They would sometime even talk about your blog on their blogs or do a link to promote your products. Building a strong based of supports is key in your blog success.

3. Readers who just wont talk

There are also readers that often frequent your blog, but no matter how much you try to squeeze a comment from them they will not say a word. There may be a few possibilities that they dont comment. They are maybe a spy or just shy to actually comment on the post.

It’s not really easy to make people talk on blogs but one trick I used in the pass really MADE a lot of people talking =) What I did was I offer a prize for commenting just to test what happens if I pay people to comment =P As usual money talks there were over 33 comments on the post. Just search for pay per comment on my blog to find the post =)

4. Readers who just hate you and talks bad about you

So far in my own experience I only know I got one of this because a lazy mistake I did months ago when I was totally new. I got framed by people before about me copying people’s content. It was a silly thing to do, BUT until today that article that still frames me today is still giving me free traffic. I got to thank him for doing that.

Anyway to handle such cases if you do encounter them, just ignore them and correct the mistakes and say sorry and ask for a remover of post.

5. Readers who turn to customers

This is the most most important group of readers you will have to attract the most. Why? Because they trust you enough to pay you to learn from you. And some of these loyal customers will stick to every area you go.

Building loyal customers is tough, but to make it really simple. The easiest way to do it BE HONEST and ethical in your business and nothing will go wrong. I am happy to announced I got people actually email me for purchasing my products and thank me because I did something seldom any online marketer will do. But I wont reveal it.. haha.. if you want to know just get one of my guides here =)

6. Readers who come in strategy for motive

Most people will be very afraid of this type of visitors but frankly there is seriously nothing wrong with people who strategy comes to your blog often to get something.

What type of things would they want you maybe thinking? FREE backlink from being the top commenter on a blog or FREE traffic to your blogs by giving really valuable content post. Frankly these visitors are good, you know why? Because they contribute lots of content for your blog for free and greats awareness for your blog that you have a community.

You will be amazed what you can learn and gain from reading people’s comments.

Here’s The Summary

Overall, regardless if the person is a spy or a supporter or customer you want to grab as many visitors as possible to your blogs, you will never know a spy can one day turn to a customer =)

I think that’s it, there are more but I just keep to these few. I hope you guys got something from this and comment below if you learn something from this. Do comment more guys.. I hope those who never comment before would comment more too! And you will get reward as the top 10 commenter of this blog with a free page rank 4 link =)

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6 Comments »

Comment by Alvin Phang
2007-08-26 23:08:23
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Start the ball rolling guys.. comment away to share your views

 
Comment by Alan Goh Subscribed to comments via email
2007-08-27 22:04:34
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Regardless if the person is a spy or a supporter or customer, they will make you to improve continuously. I’m your frequent reader because I like your blog. Maybe I’m the 7th Type…

 
Comment by Alvin Phang
2007-08-27 23:45:47
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Hi Alan.. thanks for visiting and commenting =)

 
Comment by YC
2007-08-31 10:26:45
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As a user of Alvin’s product and services, I might be accused of being biased - but I really frequent his site and hope to do a review of your site and products in the near future - you have come across as a really sincere person in your marketing methods and that is not common.

 
Comment by Alvin Phang
2007-08-31 13:23:16
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thanks YC .. =)

 
Comment by Maximus Subscribed to comments via email
2007-12-20 16:19:39
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I would like to see a continuation of the topic

 
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