Making Money Online - Getting Return Visitors
There are a number of things you can do to entice people back to your website or blog:
Provide useful tools or stickies! - Many people these days regularly visit a number of different websites, forums and blogs. If you can get them to recommend your site on other sites it will bring more visitors your way. And more visitors means more income... it's all relative. Give your visitors access to tools they will want or need. A few suggestions are to provide some tickers that they can add to their signatures on online forums or sparkly text that they can personalise. If they like what your giving to them and they feel a sense of loyalty towards your site, they'll be happy to use them on their siggies.
Offer a Bookmark this Site button so your visitors can add you to their favourite sites and easily return to yours again if they need to or want to.
Offer a selection of relevant social media buttons such as Digg, Reddit, Technorati and so on so that your visitors can help generate more interest in and visitor to your site.
Feedburner feeds are another great way to attract repeat visitors. Everytime you add a new page or topic to your website or blog everyone who has requested notification of updates will be notified.
Allow your visitors to submit their own relevant articles, stories, videos, photos and so on to your site. Everyone likes to see their words in print and they'll tell family and friends to visit your site to read their articles. By offering them links in return for their work there is an added incentive as they know they'll get some new visitors to their own sites in return for their submissions.
Provide a relevant news feed - Your visitors want the latest up to the minute news - so give it to them. It's very easy to set up a news feed on most websites and you can use a provider like Google (my personal favourite) or Yahoo to provide the relevant content.
More Tips for Making Money Online
- Choose your niche carefully
- Get the website name right
- Become an expert in your field
- Optimize your website
- Keep it short
- Go easy on the eye
- Keep focused
- Keep motivated
- Navigation, Navigation, Navigation
- Don't ask for opinions unless you can handle criticism!
- Get interactive
- Start a blog, forum or both
- Offer a means of contact
- Don't overwhelm your visitors with advertising
- To thine own self be true!
- Advertise your site
- Provide products unique to your site
- Advertisements - Right or Wrong!
- Don't expect to get rich quick!
- Content is King