The one issue many bloggers obsess over and most at least think about often is traffic. If you’ve managed to build up an audience of more than a handful of people, you’ve noticed a sharp drop-off in site visitors on weekends. This can be very disconcerting, especially for the business blogger.

Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World offers a few tips to retain weekend readership.

Some form of traffic builder, or at least some form of weekend visitor retention concept, needs to be implemented if weekend visitors are important to you. The visitor traffic can be at east partially maintained in many creative and innovative ways.

A contest may require an answer on a Saturday or Sunday quiz, contest, or similar device. To win the contest, the reader might have to make a weekend visit. The post might contain a secret word that might be removed at midnight on Sunday. Perhaps the prize could only be claimed on a Saturday or a Sunday. The weekend blog perusal could be done either live, or via an RSS reader. The point is to maintain, and even add on additional regular readers for your blog.