What are good ways to increase page views per user on a news site?

It's becoming harder and harder to engage site visitors, but here are a few ways I've successfully increased page views per user: 1) Related content popups, widgets or sliders 2) Reducing page load time 3) Efficient and relevant internal interlinking I wrote a blog post on this topic recently, if you've like insight into data and wider context: http://willrussellmarketing.com/growth-hacking/increase-page-views-per-visit

There are several thing you can do. Low pageviews/session indicates that your readers didn’t stay on your website to read more articles. But it doesn't mean that your article was bad.Here are some suggestions: Deliver what you promised: if you publish articles your content has to deliver what you promised in the title, otherwise your visitors will leave as soon as they can. Link to other content on your website Use highlighted boxes to get your visitors attention, include links there which point to related articles Use CTAs and ask them to visit an other related page Create article series Use content recommendation plugins Here are some articles worth reading:This guide is focusing on news sites: http://blog.momentum.ai/how-to-increase-pageviews-on-your-website https://www.quicksprout.com/2015/07/29/5-ways-to-increase-pageviews-per-visitor-by-23-52/http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/12/07/11-tips-to-increase-page-views-stats-on-your-blog/Discussion (and some tips) about increasing pageviews for a news site: https://moz.com/community/q/how-to-increase-pageviews-for-a-news-website-when-all-the-most-common-seo-strategies-were-already-used-and-they-ve-reached-a-plateau-of-visitsHope you find them useful!Tamas

Another interesting way to increase pageviews by 10% is by leveraging your external links. Check http://sprd.in/media