If you have Google AdSense, BlogAds, or any relative passive income source, page views is very important point for your success. The more page views you got, the more ads your visitors will see, and the more likely they will click on it. Peter Flaschner wrote an interesting article on how to maximizing your page views.

So, page views. A page view is not a hit, nor is it a visit. Total page views tells you how many individual pages have been seen over a given period. Dividing that total by the number of unique visitors gives you your average page views per visit.

There are 3 strategies that Peter mention on his article. The first is using Excerpt.

Using excerpts instead of full articles on your home page can increase page views in two ways. Obviously, if you hook someone with a post title and opening paragraph and that person clicks to continue reading, she’ll have been exposed to two pages instead of one. Also, the ads on the second page should be more focussed on that particular post, increasing your click through rate.

Next, is optimizing your Archives page.

Your archives are your biggest, most underused treasure trove of page view potential. Most archive systems (including mine) suck. Badly. They are hard to navigate, difficult to explore, and plain old useless. There is so much fantastic writing locked up in the blogosphere’s archives. I’m working on a plan to free some of that content, which I’ll share with you in a few weeks, but there are a number of steps you can take to recycle your existing work.

And the final strategy is combining both Excerpt and Archives.

Let’s take this another step further. What if at the bottom of each article you listed a random excerpt from your archives? If you used categories (you do use categories, right?), you could randomly select an article from the same category and offer it with a line like “If you enjoyed reading this article, you might find this of interest…”

That’s it. Don’t forget, you can read the whole article here. But I think the whole point is tease your visitor :d