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symonds 3 Star User
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:30 am Post subject: How to get people to know about your website |
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We're making a new website now, becasue not enough people visited the old one. I want to know if there is a good way to make people visit the website and if anyone else has been able to make theirs a success? We do not have enough money for advertising (like in Google), so this option is out. |
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cath_p 5 Star User
Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 120 Location: betwixt and between
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Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: Re: How to get people to know about your website |
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symonds wrote: | We're making a new website now, becasue not enough people visited the old one. I want to know if there is a good way to make people visit the website and if anyone else has been able to make theirs a success? We do not have enough money for advertising (like in Google), so this option is out. |
funnily enough we were asking this question, i dont know the make up of your population but i was thinking that we definately need a handle to get people in , crosswords or suduko did cross my mind, with the puzzle being in the newsletter and the solution on the website. but still early days for us (only just having a website set up now) perhaps a young persons page, community have your say page? uncertain but will let you know if we come up with any bright ideas.
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Menwipcc 2 Star User
Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 13
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Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: Re: How to get people to know about your website |
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cath_p wrote: | symonds wrote: | We're making a new website now, becasue not enough people visited the old one. I want to know if there is a good way to make people visit the website and if anyone else has been able to make theirs a success? We do not have enough money for advertising (like in Google), so this option is out. |
funnily enough we were asking this question, i dont know the make up of your population but i was thinking that we definately need a handle to get people in , crosswords or suduko did cross my mind, with the puzzle being in the newsletter and the solution on the website. but still early days for us (only just having a website set up now) perhaps a young persons page, community have your say page? uncertain but will let you know if we come up with any bright ideas.
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I think that the idea of somehow combining a website with a newsletter is a great one. However, one should not be totally reliant on the other. There are many people around who simply will never use a computer, let alone visit one of these "new fangled website-thingys" !!!
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cath_p 5 Star User
Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 120 Location: betwixt and between
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:33 am Post subject: Re: How to get people to know about your website |
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Menwipcc wrote: | cath_p wrote: | symonds wrote: | We're making a new website now, becasue not enough people visited the old one. I want to know if there is a good way to make people visit the website and if anyone else has been able to make theirs a success? We do not have enough money for advertising (like in Google), so this option is out. |
funnily enough we were asking this question, i dont know the make up of your population but i was thinking that we definately need a handle to get people in , crosswords or suduko did cross my mind, with the puzzle being in the newsletter and the solution on the website. but still early days for us (only just having a website set up now) perhaps a young persons page, community have your say page? uncertain but will let you know if we come up with any bright ideas.
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I think that the idea of somehow combining a website with a newsletter is a great one. However, one should not be totally reliant on the other. There are many people around who simply will never use a computer, let alone visit one of these "new fangled website-thingys" !!!
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lol @ website-thingys" x |
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Jake Newbie
Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 1
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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The best format is to have a forum such as this to permit members of your community to access and comment directly on things that concern them.
Develop a frontpage with diary/contacts/council details etc and have the forum on a separate section accessed through the frontpage. It maay take some time - probably 12 months to get going fully, but the eventual traffic will astound you! _________________ "There should be no emnity between seekers after truth" |
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cath_p 5 Star User
Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 120 Location: betwixt and between
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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Jake wrote: | The best format is to have a forum such as this to permit members of your community to access and comment directly on things that concern them.
Develop a frontpage with diary/contacts/council details etc and have the forum on a separate section accessed through the frontpage. It maay take some time - probably 12 months to get going fully, but the eventual traffic will astound you! |
hi jake, welcome to the boards xxx
will let you know bout the web site building it at the moment xx |
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richardgarforth 3 Star User
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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: Quick and easy way to "make" people visit your web |
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Hi,
I've done several websites and getting traffic seems to boil down to a few things.
You cannot make people visit. You need to encourage repeat visitors.
Publicise the website via your newsletter. The website should not replace the newsletter, but supplement it. Put posters up in the local shop, and on your Parish notice board.
Put new "news" articles up each day. Changing content is the man way that people remember to visit again. Think of all the websites you visit. If you go to a site and see the same news that you saw a month ago, you mentally think the site is stale and you do not go there again.
These 2 tips will help you get your residents using your site.
If you wish to attract traffic from elsewhere then you need to look into search engine optimisation techniques. I'll not bore you, but do let me know if you would like to know.
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Claire White 2 Star User
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 11
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:19 am Post subject: |
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I think that is really good advice. I don't know anything about how to build a website, but I do know how to read them (I spend far too much time on websites!). Seeing that there is something new is exactly the sort of thing that will get me going back to a website again and again. |
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