Why Every Business Needs A Professional Web Site

Written by April Ward


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April Ward is a professional web site designer with more than seven years of Internet marketing and design experience. To learn more about Internet marketing and web design, visit her website at www.aprilward.net where you can also subscribe to her free online newsletter.


How to Get Your Visitors to Create Content for Your Website

Written by Clay Mabbitt


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Now you may have some concerns that allowing anyone to add content and links to your site is inviting your competitors to steal your traffic. If your site has detailed reviews of products on your site, anyone who leaves your site to visit a competitor won't spend much time there before realizing that your site has useful, original content that they can't find anywhere else. If that doesn't put your mind at ease, though, there's nothing to stop you from including a disclaimer when someone submits a review. Explain in this disclaimer that direct references to your competitors will be removed to keeprepparttar reviews informative and to avoid marketing hype. You arerepparttar 132658 webmaster, after all.

You can draw even more traffic by allowing visitors to raterepparttar 132659 usefulness of each review. Many reviewers will encourage people to visit your site so they can read and raterepparttar 132660 review. More important than just being a gimmick to increase traffic, rating reviews allows you to sort them by quality and expose your average visitors torepparttar 132661 best possible content first.

Promote it! Once you've gotrepparttar 132662 code in place, it's important to publicize this new feature of your website. If you have experience or know someone with experience writing press releases, you may be able to garner attention from news and niche media. Another highly effective form of publicity is to mentionrepparttar 132663 new feature aboverepparttar 132664 fold onrepparttar 132665 main page of your site.

If you have a newsletter, promoterepparttar 132666 review process in your next issue. In fact, as you begin to accumulate reviews, they can serve as great additional content for your newsletter. Simply includerepparttar 132667 best reviews in each issue. As withrepparttar 132668 reviews on your website, you are providing valuable content for your audience, giving your reviewer great exposure, and saving time for yourself. It's a win-win-win situation.

Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Clay Mabbitt. Clay Mabbitt writes articles about online income opportunities. He is the founder of a community of Internet entrepreneurs sharing knowledge and experience at http://www.affiliatescreen.com


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