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Having a substantial number of readers is the life blood of any blog;

and every blogger must have the uncanny ability to keep the faithful

followers he has. Unfortunately, it is not every blogger that knows

how to build and maintain a lasting relationship with their readers

and potential followers.

If you must remain relevant in the blogosphere and become a reference

point sort of, you need to be able to display some qualities or aura

that should keep people attracted to you at all times. It is the

people that make you great; they can easily flock to you, and they can

also easily take their leave of you, depending on how you treat them.

Your blog remains relevant; your revenue appreciates and even your

page rank increases so long there are faithful readers who visit your

site regularly. More readers get to know about your site through the

words of mouth, personal invitations and content sharing by the

existing ones.

How can you drive your visitors away?

If you do the following things you are directly or indirectly driving

away your ardent followers from visiting your blog further:

1. Be ambiguous: Just communicate to your followers in unclear terms

and they would abandon you. No one has got time to waste. Time is

precious and people want to go to places where their time can be

respected and valued.

2. Play to the gallery: One sure way to scare away people is for you

to try to entertain yourself. Tell your readers how much you know; use

complex grammatical expressions and professional terminologies that

are difficult to decipher. They would simply look for someone that can

communicate with them at their own level.

3. Give them old stuff: Provide your readers with old information.

Publish news or information when they have already been published on

several blogs and websites. Give them news that are no longer relevant

to the day; provide them freebies that are everywhere on the web and

give them bonuses that are hardly useful to them. The point you

succeed in communicating to them is that you are out of contact with

modern day happenings. You simply belong to the Stone Age.

4. Show no interest: Don’t be interested in your visitors. It

shouldn’t be your concern whether they enjoy the stuff you provide or

not. Don’t respond to their emails or questions. Get busy pleasing

yourself and care less about them. Soon you will discover you are on

your own.

5. Be selfish: Show them how selfish you could be by engaging only in

monologue kind of interactions. Don’t give them any chance to discuss

with you. Present them with your success story all the times. Say

nothing about them; say nothing about other people, make no reference

to other websites or resources. Only discuss topics that would

indirectly benefit you alone. Soon it would be clear to them they are

wasting their time coming to your blog. When it becomes apparent you

are concerned about yourself alone, they would look for someone

somewhere who can accommodate their interest.

6. Be deceptive: Don’t be straight forward with them; mask up links

that would take them to your affiliate site or make them generate

income for you in a fraudulent manner. If they realize you are using

them against their wish, you are finished.

7. Fail to fulfil your promises: Set up contests, promise bonuses but

never fulfil them. Ask them to refer friends and get rewarded but end

up not fulfilling your own side after they have religiously done

theirs.

If you do the above things you are sure to lose your readers within a

short space of time. And of course, when your followers are all gone,

your blog becomes useless. If you must avoid such a disaster, then you

should learn to treat your readers better and they would remain with

you.

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