Creating original and easy-to-read content is not enough to engage the website viewers. If you want your page to become viral then you should develop creative contents as well as add different tricks to allure the viewers. Developing Interactive contents is quite a bit tricky but not impossible. Here are some tricks – only for you.

1. Add Quizzes and Polls

One of the most interesting and easy ways to engage with the viewers is Quizzes and Polls. Sites like BuzzFeed and PlayBuzz use this trick exclusively to attract the viewers and make the website viral. You can also do the same trick by using different Plugins to add quizzes and polls on the website page. There are several useful plugins for the job, such as Apester Interactive Content, Survey Funnel, Dilemma, and Riddle. All of these plugins can create easy but attractive polls for you. If you don’t have time to create your own poll and quizzes, you can simply use the PlayBuzz Plugin with which you can add interactive contents to your site directly from PlayBuzz.

2. Chat with other users

Have you ever considered – what if the users of your websites can chat with each other? If you intend to go for brand building and more user engagement then offer a platform towards the users to chat on your site. You can use a plugin like Private Messages for UserPro to add chat function on your website. However, you may need to install UserPro first to install this chat plugin. This plugin particularly helps in enabling the users to send private messages to each other. Chat by WPmudev is another plugin that can create an ideal chat platform for the users. It helps in arranging one-on-one public chat sessions. While chatting with each other, the users will eventually become more interactive with the site.

3. Feedback and Content rating

Giving comments is one good thing but if you want your visitors to rate the content instead of typing long comments – it is actually time-saving. Hence, using this step can involve those users who have “less” time for giving a feedback. There are different rating plugins you can use in the WordPress blogs. These are FL3R FeelBox, Voting-Feedbacks plugin by Vicomi and MyEffecto. These plugins will help the readers to give their response immediately and you will learn which contents they enjoy most.

4. Turn PDF files into Flipbooks

PDFs are boring to read, but what if you can use it to influence interactive users? Yes, now you can convert a boring PDF file into an interesting Flipbook. How? Use Real 3D FlipBook plugin for the WordPress site and make it interactive. The PDFs are not very mobile friendly, but when it is converted into a Flipbook, it becomes responsive and user-friendly. FlipBook Creator is another helpful plugin. You just need to put the PDF URL and you will get the flipbook within minutes! Apart from that, you can also add HTML content to selective webpages along with videos and iframes to make it more interactive.

5. Use Gamification

Gamification is one of the trendiest features used in WordPress site development. Introducing Gamification means applications of options like leaderboards, points, virtual currencies, “level up” progress bar and so on. More or less every people have a childhood love for video games. So, you offer them a similar platform to rejuvenate the childhood memory, it increases user engagement. There are different plugins like Achievements for WordPress and Capture Up plugin are often used to gamify the WordPress websites. However, gamification can slow down your page loading process, this is why WP care providers often suggest not to use gamification plugins (especially if it is offered by unauthentic sites).

6. User-generated Content

Users always like to “see” their contributions on the websites. You can use a plugin called Listly to develop a curated blog post. The readers can actively comment on an ongoing blog post and you can just “approve” their thoughts and add them to the blog. Q&A plugins are also good enough to add user-generated contents. The WordPress website users generally use this plugin to encourage users to participate in Q&A game or rate the company. There are a handful of Q&A plugins, such as- Q&A from WPmudev, DW Question & Answer, and WP Answers.

7. Board Games

Games are no doubt considered as the best interactive elements. Whether it is kids or adults, adding few games will make them irresistible to spend more time on the website. When the users find a game and they could not resist themselves from playing that game, it actually increases the dwell time of the users. Users’ swell time is a factor in boosting position in Google SERP. In other words, it may also help you in decreasing the bounce rate. There are different plugins to help you to set up a board game widget on your website, namely: WP Shredderchess and Board Game Geek Infos,

8. Rewards

Every individual is interested in “Gifts.” So, what if your website can offer gifts to the visitors and thus glue them into the website? It is the reward that keeps you interested in any games. Your site is no different. If you can add an element of reward for visiting videos, URLs or posts, or simply posting an order then people will be enthused to earn more points/rewards. Rewarding users make them feel special and they automatically recommend others to visit the site and get a reward. So, no doubt it is an interesting nut easy step to encourage user interactivity. There are different plugins such as myCRED, Beans loyalty and Rewards and WP User Rewards – all of these plugins can help you to create an application of rewarding the website visitors.

9. Responsive Image Maps

It is a very interesting way to display the pictures to the users. Many WordPress developers actually suggest building good image maps to attract the customers. The Image Hotspotter is a plugin that helps in creating a responsive, user-friendly and interactive image maps. With this plugin active, whenever the user over a cursor over the image, it will open a lightbox containing more information about the image. If you are using too many images on your website, then it might help the visitors to become interactive. It is a great tool for the professional photographers who have a WordPress website.

10. Related Posts

Never let your visitors hop in other sites when you have great contents for the same topic on a different page. The best way to increases interactions with the users is promoting related posts. When your users have finished reading the post or blog, give them options to move to other similar posts. It will help the users with more information as well as increase the user engagement. This step will also improve the content reading rates and viewership. Besides, adding more posts and links helps to create a better environment and increase the website importance.

Summing up

When millions of websites are fighting to impress the users and crack a good position in Google SERP, you have to think in your own way to influence the users’ interest for your website. If you want your users to become more interactive, then try the options we mentioned in this blogs. All of these options (rather tricks) are well tested. If you want more suggestions or have any doubt, don’t forget to mention in comments.

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