tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114673052011-12-14T21:38:38.913-05:00You have questions: How do I increase my website traffic without paying a fortune? What can I do to urge my visitors to act? Where can I find free and cheap site add-ons? You can work countless hours on your site, but if it doesn't have popularity, you won't succeed on the Web. That's why you need this site. Bookmark it and return often for frequent tips on these and related issues.Adam Gentryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02233234720353113793noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11467305.post-1148357910059638632006-05-23T00:13:00.000-04:002006-05-23T00:18:31.246-04:00

How do you get a bulletin board on your site? There are a number of options. For instance, FreeBB offers free bulletin board hosting in exchange for your allowing their ads on it. PHPBB offers the same service ad-free on your own site if you're tech savvy enough to install it on your own server. Wordpress.com will host your blog, which can double as a community site in that it allows visitors to

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A forum, also called a discussion board or bulletin board system, has the potential to bring a great amount of quality traffic to your site. This form of community-building can greatly increase your site's stickiness -- making people want to return frequently. People come back to see what others have written and to make their own contributions.This can be helpful as an amateur or professional

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So you've decided you want to create a mailing list to keep in touch with your visitors. Now the question remains: What's the best material to put into it?Start off with a catchy title in your email's subject line that hooks the reader ("Win a Trip For Two", "Save 50% On Our Top Brands This Weekend"). When they bite, let them find content that makes them look forward to reading it, not be ready

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Mailing list, ezine, members' update, newsletter -- call it what you will, it is essential for your website to have a method of contacting your interested visitors. It can be an invaluable asset for a variety of reasons.Even if subscribers have never bought a single item from you, once they give you permission to contact them, they provide you with a resource which is useful in several ways. The

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Whether intentional or not, your website conveys an image of your company, a personality, to your readers. It can be one of excellence, playfulness, carelessness, professionalism, or a number of others. Each one gives visitors a certain sense of your business which affects their decision whether or not to buy from you.A number of companies try to portray themselves online as very businesslike and

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One key factor in making your online presence known to the public is to register your site with the most popular search engines and directories. This is because the vast majority of people searching for websites immediately go to these to find their information. You don't have to worry about submitting to thousands of such sites, though. A handful of giants -- headed by Google, MSN, and Yahoo! --

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Some Web marketing and promotion techniques may seem intuitive once they are discovered, but it's amazing how many people still overlook them. Here are a few simple ways to improve your site and your understanding of it.Cross-pollinate: Put your website address on your brochures, paper ads, commercials, and other media. This is an easy, cheap ad for your site. In addition, including your

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Now you know that companies must be innovative and savvy of the current trends on the internet. Where do you start, though? What's the first step toward breakthrough success?While the Web is constantly evolving, the underlying foundation of online commerce is still the website. Before you go hire a designer and put your site address on all your business cards, though, you have to do some

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The introduction to Evan Schwartz' Digital Darwinism includes an apt metaphor for the state of business on the internet. In it, he describes how we are beyond the times of businesses founded on a simple, untested idea like selling a product. Winners must "invent breakthrough business tactics especially suited to their swiftly shifting surroundings." Companies that want to prosper on the Web "must

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