Website Design - 9 Ways To Create A Community Website Your Visitors Will Want To Return To Again And Again.
In the past it may have been O.k. to create a stand alone website, but with the popularity of blogs and other websites like FaceBook and MySpace more and more internet surfers are looking for a community to hang out in with other like minded people.
So, here are 9 things you could do to build a sense of community around your website…
1 - Add a message board to your web site. People will visit your web site to ask questions and answer other people’s questions. Some people will just participate on message boards so they can leave their link but those people may end up buying your product too.
2 - Add a directory of web site links to your web site. People will visit your web site to find related web site links for the topic they’re interested in. This saves them time and effort searching for all those links personally. If you update it often, they will come back and revisit and maybe buy one of your products.
3 - Add an article section to your web site. People will visit your web site to read and learn new information related to their interests. You want to have original content so people can’t go anywhere else to get it. You also want to update it regularly so they will want to revisit your web site over and over.
4 - Add a free e-book directory to your web site. People will visit your site to download, study and read new information. If you do add one, offer e-book related products. Those people might decide they want to create their own e-book and submit it to your directory.
5 - Add a free classified ad section. People will visit your web site to place their own free classified ad and to read other offers. You can encourage them even more by telling them you will pick a few classified ads to run in your e-zine. This may influence them to subscribe to your e-zine or to revisit your web site regularly to submit new ads.6- Add a free link page to your web site. People will visit your web site to place their own link and to look at other people’s links. You could say to the link submitters that you’ll run their link once in your e-zine if, in exchange, they place your link on their home page for one or two months.
7 - Add an “About Us” page to your web site. People will visit your web site to read about you and your business. This will help to make your relationship with your prospects more personal and persuade them to buy. Include some of your non- business information too on your “About Us” page.
8 - Add a guest book to your web site. People will visit your web site to leave their opinions about your business and to list their signature file. Yes, they may only be doing it to get free advertising but it could be a visitor who might eventually buy your product.
9 - Add a free software download page to your web site. People will visit your web site to find new software that will make their life easier. Your software could be your own, freeware, submitted shareware or demos. The software should be related to your target audience.
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