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Use Paper.li If you are a regular user of Twitter, you should have encountered Tweets like these: You can create a newspaper, or ?daily,? out of your participation at Twitter and Facebook.

way, the person who has a question will have to visit my forums to post the question, and again, to see the answer. While they?re there, they may easily see other forum discussions that they?re interested in contributing to. The forum is only few days old, but already I have 140 active members.

let people contact me using the private messaging system on the forum, instead of sending me a mail? This

reason I don?t put the newsletter form at the top of the page is that it harms the sales of the books I promote there, as it pushes

whenever I find a page that?s experiencing a traffic spike, I move the newsletter subscription form to a dominant place on that page, so that I capture as many email addresses as I can. The

Recurring visitors who returned to the website started reading the articles, and some of them headed to the forum after finding the link at the bottom of the article.

Then on the bottom of each article I added a link saying ?If you have any questions, come and ask me about it in the forums.?

motivating each person to read ten pages! Here is how I did it. First, I created a forum on the website.

Generate more recurring traffic If each person read three articles

contained the word ?depression? then I would create a link pointing to an article about depression on my website.

recurring traffic. I wrote great articles with very useful content and added them to the newsletter. One is sent each week. In each article, I add many links to related posts on my website?I even add links ?between the lines.? For

you receive. While it seems like a tiny thing having a Contact form that readers can fill in and send straight from your Contact page will make life significantly easier for your visitors and so encourage them to contact you.

Readers want to help A call to action gives readers a chance to flex their voices and make a difference. I get

About box. This is only a small section of the page, so make this product-descriptive if you are selling something, or if you are promoting a particular website, include your URL and primary keywords. Whilst the URL won?t be clickable, this will display to search engine users, and correct keywords will also push your Fan page higher in the rankings.

take advantage of social media distribution platforms, such as Hellotxt.com or Ping.fm, which can distribute your

would recommend using a plug-in called Per Page Sidebars.

making your communication with your list from passive to active.

Have them write back to you with the answer to a question, share something on twitter with a particular hashtag, or ask them to post something related on Facebook. Dave Navarro has some excellent ideas around how to do this including, asking for a share on social media, asking for opinions, or even asking them to listen to an audio or video file. See this blog post for more on responsiveness.

fun and engaging welcome message that asks your new subscribers to do something.