The Art of Making your Website more INTERESTING…

22 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment

by kaydencecreative in Art, Branding, Community, Design, Graphic Design, Kaydence, Networking, Promotion, Public Relations, Social Media, Twitter, Video, Wisdom

The single best way to get more traffic to your website is to make it more interesting. And website traffic is what it’s all about because that traffic visiting your website on a regular basis becomes your viewing audience. And the bigger the audience the more opportunities there are to sell things, and by extension, the higher your earning potential from your website.

Interesting builds an audience, plain and simple.

Think about some of the most popular websites out there. Take a look at the Alexa Top 20 Websites as far as traffic goes and what do you see?

What’s Popular

That list of the highest trafficked websites is made up almost entirely of search engines and social media sites. The one notable exception is Amazon.com, which is a shopping site.

People are most interested in looking for stuff (search and shopping) and in interacting with other folks out there on the web via social media.

So the question is, how can you make your website more interesting?

If social sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are among the most popular websites on the planet, then it makes sense to tap into that popularity and make your own make your own site more interesting.

Social Media Integration Ideas

Here are a few ways you can integrate social media into your own business website.

1. Add a Blog

Three of the most popular websites in the world are blogging platforms. Did you know that a blog is considered social media? Let’s look at what Wikipedia says about social media.

“Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues.”
That’s exactly what a blog does. Adding a regularly updated blog to your business website using a platform like WordPress is arguably the single most powerful way to make it more interesting.

2. Add a Facebook “Like” Button

Facebook is the single biggest social media website out there and is the second biggest website on the entire planet. Facebook has over 500 million active users. That’s half a billion people!

By adding a Facebook “Like” button to the pages on your website you can make your site more interesting and tap into that huge community.

3. Post YouTube Videos

The third most popular website is YouTube. People love to watch videos. In fact, people watch 2 billion YouTube videos every day.

It’s easy to put their videos on your website. Simply copy the embed code and paste it into your site. When you do, your website becomes more dynamic and more interesting.

4. Share Your Content on Twitter

Twitter is another huge website that can be integrated into your website. Not only can you share your content on Twitter, but by adding a “tweet” button (it’s also called a “retweet” button on many sites) you can make it easy for others to share your content there as well.

Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

You can see some significant gains just by taking some basic steps. Sometimes people have a tendency to over think things when it comes to their websites.

There’s no need to go overboard and add every gadget and button possible to your site. Just keep things simple and make it easier for people to interact on your website. Doing so will make it much more interesting.

And as your site gets more interesting you’ll start attracting more traffic too!

Chris Cree is a new media speaker & systemizer and CEO of SuccessCREEations, Inc. – guiding real businesses to increased influence and income through new media systems. Chris is a life long professional navigator: in planes, ships, and on the web. His new media strategy training videos are available at NewMediaProfitPath.com.

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