Technical Communication 3.0

According to Darren Rowse, blogger extraordinaire,"A sticky website is one where a first time reader arrives and finds it difficult to leave."

As someone who has dabbled in blogging and is trying to figure out how to create a synergistic online community, I found Darren's post fascinating.

Darren Rowse's 21 Ways to Make Your blog or Website Sticky:

1. Make your invitations to subscribe to your blog prominent
2. Educate readers about your subscription methods
3. Good blog design
4. On site branding
5. Make your blog personal
6. When you get a rush of traffic on one particular post...act
7. Get interactive
8. Add a 'subscribe to comments' feature to your blog
9. Respond to comments
10. Offer alternative ways to subscribe
11. Promote social media connecting points
12. Highlight your best content
13. Create momentum with your content
14. Consider removing dates on old posts
15. Give incentive to subscribe
16. Keep posting frequency up
17. Create an engaging about page
18. Add a community area or forum
19. Social proof
20. Target readers with specific messages
21. Sticky content

(See Darren's post for more info.)

I'm particularly interested in people's experience with creating incentive to subscribe.

Can you share successes that you have had with luring people to subscribe?