3 Tips For Anyone About To Develop a Website

1. Social Media for your site.
Social media is a new phenomenon that has allowed people to build and become part of communities which involve the sharing of information. Some popular examples include YouTube (video sharing), Flickr (image sharing), Blogs (blogging), Twitter (microblogging), Facebook (social networking), Friendster (social networking), LinkedIn (business networking) and Digg (news sharing) and Delicious (social bookmarking). This can be a great way to build loyalty amongst people and also generate some great links.
2. Useful Content Enhancements
As websites have been becoming more versatile, there has been an increase in the additional functions that they can perform. It's now very easy to add such things as local maps to show the location of your physical premises, live chat to allow visitors to interact with your business, weather widgets to show the weather in your local area and give your website more of a local feel and even videos. Some free options include:
  • Add This - Makes it easy for your viewers to bookmark and share your content with others.
  • Google Gadgets - From world clocks to weather, jokes, games and virtual aquariums.
  • Google Maps - Embed a map on your contact page so viewers can easily see your location.
  • Google Site Search - Add a search box that's customized to search just your website.
  • Live Chat - Increase interaction with your website visitor by offering Live Chat to your website.
  • RSS Feed - Allow your website content to be published frequently and automatically to your subscribed visitors
  • Weather - Add local weather to your site.
  • Widgetbox - Add a diverse range of widgets to your website that are relevant to business from Weekly Home Maintenance Tips to Free Website Dictionary
  • WordPress - An excellent tool for blogging.
  • YouTube - Upload videos and then easily embed them on pages in your website.
  • Twitter Feeds - You can display your latest Twitter updates or real-time search phrase results onto your website.
3. Quality Content Publishing
Another way of attracting visitors to your site is article marketing, which means creating an article which provides value to readers. This article can provide information aimed at a specific market and uploaded to a article directory such as EzineArticles. Websites such as these attract regular traffic, so they are a great way to get referral visits. Make sure what you write provides value to the reader as this will increase the chances of them clicking through to your website.

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