satchat

The first thing when creating a website is your domain name. It needs to be as small as possible and easy to remember and believe me there are some good ones still around. I picked up this month www.satbuy.co.uk, www.hdtvme.co.uk and www.gameus.co.uk just all waiting to be registered. I would then recommend that you use any knowledge that you have to produce content that people would want to read or use. For me www.satchat.co.uk is based on UK satellite information because I have a wide knowledge of this area and I offer a general chit chat section for people who come across the website who want to talk about anything. If you feel that you really do not have anything to offer in terms of knowledge and content start reading there are some inspiring writers on the internet such as Steve Pavlina just Google him and read one of his articles. I would also recommend that when writing new content that you read it over and ask would you be interested in this? If no do not be afraid to delete everything and start again.

Once you have an area of interest and some reasonably good content you need to find ways of letting people know about your website and getting them to stay. I would advise looking at some of the strategies that successful adult websites use to gain a small part of the market. Can you imagine using all the marketing tricks and tips porn sites use to have a small percentage of the adult market within another market? Successful adult websites are the marketing experts of the internet you only have to visit an adult forum such as www.netpond.com to pick up some really important tips to getting yourself seen.

The one main thing I have to say is do not get frustrated! Websites come and go and go because they feel they have nothing to gain. Search engines are very careful with new websites they like to make sure they are legitimate before giving them any stream of traffic and I agree. Search engines have become the regulators of the internet they know when people have copied content and they do not stand for it. They also use a filtering process with new websites so that the bad ones get left in the funnel while the good ones creep through but it could take months even years to prove that your website is one of the good ones.

Many of us leave website links in forums, chat rooms or just comments. This does generate quite a bit of traffic. I would suggest that copying and pasting one of your articles from your website that you feel is worthwhile reading so people can get an idea of the content your website has. Linking in mainstream traffic is a very good way of generating traffic for example Amazon and eBay have peer to peer selling as we all know but did you know that these websites allow links to websites that help the seller give a more detailed listing. So if you know quite a bit about plumbing and give details of how to install a new pipe this information would be of use to someone selling plumbing pipes. You only have to approach high selling users in your specific knowledge base and make it worth their while to place your link on their listing. They will feel they are giving better information to their buyer and you will generate targeted visitors that you require.

The main reason why I believe that you need a domain that is easy to remember is because no one can remember domains that have numbers and hyphens all over the place and this limits these website to direct links from forums and other websites. If you have an easy domain to remember then I would suggest buying an ink stamp with your domain name on it and using it for every piece of mail that you send out. Did you know on average each person sends roughly 10 pieces of mail a week and before that mail gets to its destination it must be seen by 10 or more people. This means 100 new people per week now know about your website. This form of marketing I feel is not used as much as it could be by websites and is a very good way of generating interest in your website.

On a final note there is always something you can do to improve your website and it can take one piece of great content to get the visitors rolling in. You always need to be offering something new and you always need to be finding ways of improving even if you feel you have loads of visitors.

“The key to a successful website is to create new content and let people copy it, that way you will be credited with being the original creator of that content”

Satchat

crystal

I try to tell all my friends that. It seems these days that everyone wants to create a website but don't want to keep hot content. You have to understand that the web is all about content so why woudn't you want to have good content on your site. It only makes sense.

rosaasor

I'd agree on the content. For most sites, they just put it up and then don't update it. They neglect the fact that their Web sites are a reflection of themselves, or their business, they should make it a point to update the site every so often.

vanreek

I've always thought that having a niche content would help any site. Sort of personalizing the stuff you have on your website to suit a certain market of people.

Topher

two of the maxims I've always heard about website content is that...

content is king. the best way to get customers and search engines to visit your site is to put up good quality content... and....

well, no matter how good your content is, it will be useless unless search engines can find you... so make sure you get into search engines....

PedroChatter

There are ways to complement your content with good search engine optimization so that you could have good rankings in the search results. But sure, content is what drives people to go back to the site and stay there.

satchat

Well said SEO is very important and takes a lot of time and dedication to get your site up the rankings. It can also be a whole new education if you don't understand how to optimise your website.

ptrjakson

I agree with you content is the king and as for my knowledge google like the fresh and unique contant .

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