These 3 steps will help you kick off any kind of site with traffic and indexed pages (google), everyone needs a good launch since we aren’t million dollar startups we need to figure out ways to get at least 1% of the attention they do and some steady traffic mabye?
So lets get started, if you have a site thats about to launch or as is as i say “Ready for the world” you will need to do the following:
- First of all you would have to go all out on SMM ( Social Media Marketing ) digg it, stumble it..most importantly digg it since it helps indexation, now remember this traffic will not comeback as often the most ROI you’ll get here is 1% from all the traffic gained from SMM.
- Always end your blogpost or site with a question or a continuation , like the ones you see in movies or soaps “To be continued” or “I’ll be back!”, that way people can either subscribe to your feed or bookmark your site to check back for updates.
- Giving people an option to leave a comment or share a thought or even submit questions about topics is great because once people do ask a question or leave an opinion they check back once or twice a week to see whether they received a response or not, and if they like the response they become regular visitors to the site.
- Problogger made an excellent post on how to keep the momentum going by building up on previous posts, it teaches you how to make a chain of posts interlinked with updated/better/new info on the matter, this helps as well because as I’ve discussed in my post on diversity of readers – different people have different interests, so if someone is interested in a certain topic they will definitely come back to read more on it if a new post on it has been made!
- And finally, you should know the topic you are talking about and hold back at least 1/4 of the information that you think might develop into a juicier story and later on blog about the same thing again but this time you give it all and get a better response from your readers!
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
To get the pages indexed fast digging it and stumbling it is the best means and to get “come-back” traffic make them subscribe to rss.
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Great ideas to keep the momentum going and maintain the continuity in a blog. I like the idea of holkding back at least one quarter of the topic, so that you can revisit the story with a rekindled interest.
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Nice article. I use social bookmarking sites most of the time as a form of backlinks. But I am afraid Goggle might devalue or ignore altogether links comming from these sites.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Nice article
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Yeah, SMM really helps in the short term, but it is not a permanent thing. You can easily get a couple hundred or thousand hits from a good Stumbleupon adding though.
December 24th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Good point but this time i dont have my opinion about this
December 24th, 2007 at 4:12 am
I am just getting to realize the power of the social media. This is helpful reading on tapping into that market.
December 27th, 2007 at 9:27 am
Long term is really to goal for any webmaster, short term only gives your a temporary excitement