Your Visitors Will Grow Your Website if You Let Them!
Im sure you have heard about Viral Marketing, but I bet you havent considered how powerful some of those same strategies can be when you change it from getting others to advertise for you to getting others to GROW your website.
Instead of trying to think about how to have your sites be Viral think about how you can have visitors GROW your website! If they can put in their own input and actually have some kind of result or a page of their own they will pass it along.
Even if they dont pass it along, tell a friend, or do anything else they have added content to your website. Thats something we all like to have right? Search Engines love fresh new content, and if you arent the one writing it you have more time for promotion.
To really get a concept like this going you should pick a topic that people are fanatical about. I dont mean religion, politics, or any other potentially dangerous topic. I mean Sports, Hobbies, People, Reality TV, Water Cooler topics, etc
In todays world themed sites are very popular. Myspace and Youtube have encouraged us to turn our cell phones into video capture devices. Little kids are even making videos and posting them. Is there anyway you could build a niche site with videos from Youtube?
Reality TV is big. Sites like Idol-mania.com get thousands and thousands of visitors daily. Community sites like Reality-community.com give reality tv fans the ability to talk about their favorite reality tv fans, shows, or just chat with other Reality TV Fans. Take a look at the sites Im talking about http://www.reality-community.com . It probably didnt cost a fortune to set up but its getting a lot of traffic and participation. The folks running http://www.idol-mania.com also are running on a free platform called wordpress with a static html front page. You could do the same thing for any reality tv show (or any tv show for that matter).
Free open source software enables just about anyone with a website to start up a discussion board on any topic. The same open source community also provides you with blog platforms, social networking scripts, tool, and a variety of ways to reach niche sites and concepts.
If you can get normal people to contribute content, participate, and talk about your site, you can really stand out from the competition.
Ive given you a lot of ideas today. I hope you spend some time growing your network of websites and you start considering some of the virtual growth strategies Ive mentioned here. Once you get a virtual growth site off the ground like this you cant go wrong.
This article was written by Ed Charkow of http://www.other98percent.com The Other 98 Percent is a no cost membership site that focuses on how YOU can reach a bigger audience and profit from it.
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