Make Your Website Sticky as Sticky Buns
by Darryl Harris
So what is all this business about make your website sticky? Pour syrup or something on your monitor?
That could turn out to be shocking and expensive!
Actually, in Internet marketing terms when they talk about make your website sticky it is a term meaning: once you have gotten a visitor to your site, don't just let them take a quick look and click off of it to never return again. You must find a way to get your visitor friend to have enough interest in your site to bookmark it and come back time after time.
You have put in a lot of work figuring out whether to make a niche, affiliate, or Adsense site. Plus, then building your pages. After that, a lot of effort was given to driving traffic there. What you of course don't want is for someone to find your site and in a few seconds think "well...nothing here of interest. Think I will move on to the next"
How do you get someone to return to your website again and again? A great way to do this is to make people interested in your niche want to hang out there and talk to one another. But how?
Some ways this could be done on your site by running a chat room, a discussion forum or a bulletin board. These are some excellent ways to get people to come back every day or even more than once a day. Most hosts today already have these sort of things ready to go with just a few mouse clicks.
A few ideas to get surfers involved in your "community" is pointing out if they join:
* Tell them all the benefits of participating.
* Regularly schedule experts in your niche as guests.
* Let them join a members only ezine that gives them the goods on special events you are planning.
* Have special offers for those who sign up. You can give them special offers every month or even every day.
* You (the owner of the site) should post some of your best knowledge of your niche regularly in the members only section.
These are just a few ideas to get you started brainstorming on how to get the ball rolling.
Another great benefit of running these types of set ups on your site is: it will add new content all the time, the search engines just absolutely love that!
So come on, make your website sticky.Get those brain cells working along the lines of "what can I do to get my first time visitor to come back every single day and participate on my website?"
Then you will find the success of you website growing and growing.
Also, a huge bonus is the search engines love you.
Pretty sweeeeeeet!
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