1. Hidden Links for Prizes: Place hidden links in your article and declare that when you spot these hidden links, click them and claim your prize. You can give them free e-books, free coupons, free softwares those that are available at the freebies websites. By doing so your article is fully read and also you can extract the visitor’s email address and contact information for giving them their prizes. 2. Prizes for Answering a Simple Quiz Based On Your Article: At the end of the article place a quiz which the visitors can answer after reading your article. The winner of the quiz could then claim a gift for a right answer. 3. Create Suspense in Your Matter: Of course this is not possible in every type of article but wherever possible you can create a state of the suspense that you can disclose at the end of the article. This will make people to read your entire article with interest and this will also increase your readership. 4. Ask Questions: At the starting of your article, ask questions that are the most common concerns of your readers and whose answers are not easily available. Provide them with its answers throughout your article where to place these answers is for you to decide. 5. Attractive Question in the Title: You can also ask a question in the beginning of your article i.e. write it down as the title of your article and therefore the entire article should talk about only its solution. Do not deceive your readers by giving information that has nothing to do with the title. 6. Bulleted Format: Whenever possible write down your article in a bulleted format. Long and boring paragraphs generally turn off the readers and they avoid reading your article completely. So keep your article short (say 300-500 words), informative and bulleted. 7. Keep Referring to Points That You Have Mentioned Earlier: People generally read short articles entirely but when it comes to long articles, they either skim through your article or just read the first 2-3 paragraphs. To avoid this, you can apply this simple trick. After writing an interesting first 2-3 paragraphs, in your next paragraphs mention a line or two referring to the previously mentioned points. This brings about familiarity and thus simplifies their reading process. This may assure your article being read completely. 8. Highlight Interesting Points: Your article may contain many interesting points which could be the key attraction of your article and to attract readers towards these points you need to highlight them in your article or else you could write it down somewhere at the start of the article so that the people would read through the entire article to search for those excerpts from your article. 9. Put Yourself in the Reader’s Shoes: Whenever you read an article completely, always think about the factors that made you do so. What was it that attracted you to read the entire article? Take note of those factors and apply it in your articles to experience the same effect.
The best way to get people to read through the entire article is to make it interesting and worthwhile
these are just enhancements to great content...nothing can substitute good contents..not even these enhancements.
Keep the length of the article short. Maintain cohession Arrtactive headlines Attractive title Show benefits to the reader Maintain an associatiaon (reader should feel that the article is meant just for him) Build relationship Generate curiosity
Great tips! Thanks. In my opinion as long as the article is interesting, the reader will read it completely.
those are gret "extras" but I'm a skimmer - if i skim and it seems interesting, then i read. if you have a bad article, i dont care what the articles are about, i dont want to read it. Bling does not equal quality... follow the KISS method ( keep it simple stupid) and youll do better than trying to bribe your audience
most of the readers on the internet are mere skimmers...on an average a person spends abouts 10 seconds skimming through a webpage...and within that time if your article sucessfully proves its worth...bullseye!!!