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6) Submit Your Site
If it's appropriate for your web site, allow your visitors to submit their web sites to your directory. It will not only keep your visitors longer, but will make them come back to check out theirs and their competitors listings. Make sure that
sites submitted are relevant to
overall theme of your web site, so not to make it's not just another "dump" of links.
7) Audio Greeting
A great way to entertain your visitors is an audio greeting. It can be a welcome message, or a site tour. Simply download
free Real Producer from http://www.realnetworks.com and record your voice. Remind your visitors that they have to have
Real Player (http://www.real.com) to listen to your audio message.
8) Flash Movie
Animated movies are a terrific way of pulling your visitors into your web site. And now with CoffeeCup's Firestarter, you can make your own Flash animation in minutes! Just go to http://www.coffeecup.com and download their free version. Open
program, enter some text, add a few animation effects and create a web page - all won't take you more than 20 minutes.
9) Take a quiz
A quiz is a fun and informative way of keeping your visitors on your site. Creating a quiz is easy - just come up with 10-20 questions related to
theme of your web site. Then go to
free web tools such as http://www.alxnet.com/services/quiz and sign up for their quiz services. When they give you
HTML code, insert it into your web page. That's it! You can find more web sites that offer free quiz tool by searching Google.com for "quiz for a web site".
10) Staff Introduction
I always like reading about people behind a web site. Some stories are so funny and ridiculous, that it's impossible to stop reading. Have a photograph and a fun story about everyone who is a part of your web business. And if you are a one-person business, tell a funny and creative story about yourself. Pretend you are on a stage and every sentence you say has to make your audience laugh. Well, at least that always works for me :-)

Milana Nastetskaya is a professional web developer and the author of "Create Your First Busines Web Site in 10 days" and "65 Instant Web Design Answers". http://www.firstbusinesswebsite.com http://www.instantwebanswers.com