Getting people to use my site!
 

As per subject!

What's the best way to attract poeple to come to your site?

So far - I only have a handful of users...would like to kick it into gear with a few more!

Cheers

Lee

Re: Getting people to use my site!
 

whats the site about...have you tried posting the address of the site on relvant forums.

Google has some help available for webmasters, see here

Re: Getting people to use my site!
 

Check his sig :p

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Good quality content tends to help.

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Could join a few other forum and keep it in your sig, newsgroups are good for generating traffic but mainly you will need to get some linkage going from other sites etc.

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Offer money ;)

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:dunce:

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As someone said before get some content.

You have what - 6 downloads and 6 articles? Not really in line with your tag line...

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If you could answer this question definitively then you could make a lot of money!!
Getting visitors onto peoples websites and gaining high up positions on search engines is a tricky business. The general rule of thumb at the moment seems to be to get as many relevant sites to link to you and you to them. Look for similar types of sites (computer type sites in your case) and see if they do link exchanges.
Forums as suggested are a good way to links back to you.

Good luck!!

Re: Getting people to use my site!
 

And a forum...and a shed load of news thats current....

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Have you submit the site to the various search engines, theres nothing nicer than the patter of tiny spider feet :)

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But your site is called tools4windows. You have from what I can see, 6 tools to be downloaded?

Its good trying to generate traffic but if there is no content they aren't going to come back.

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I've already signed up on your site!

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Content is king, when I worked at Freeserve I set up a forum/ webs site to provide information to Freeserve users (it's since expired as it was only useful if kept upto date).

I loaded all of the installation tech and downloads together with all of the un authorised fix's to problems. I had links to avg and spyware removers and without listing it on search engines was soon placed higher for searchs than Freeserve and the modem manufacturers.

Content is is king (worth saying twice) , as is making sure its updated. If Google see's fresh content and new links to your site every week it ranks it higher. Stay clear of flashy flash and go for lots of text. Once Google loves you site many hits will come.

Re: Getting people to use my site!
 

Point taken on board! :)

The site is not that old and I've not really had time to get a load of stuff on there....

I will get some more tools on there asap.

I've also signed up for some Google Adsense so hopefully that'll generate some hits...

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With regard to Adsense I would be very mindful of the ads that are displayed, you don't want forum members clicking on a 'dodgy' ad like 'drive cleaner' or 'winfixer' and have the possiblilty of getting infected. Just my 2 pennies worth ;)

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I managed to get 2000 users to a website of mine in 24 hours.

Its not easy to do, but what i did was

Member of a very busy popular site that linked to conent on rapidshare to save there bandwidth, most people hated rapidshare i had loads of bandwidth to share so with the sites permission, I linked to my site offering direct download, modst people the nregistered as my site had good content...

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Yeah thats what i'm a bit worried about....will have a look into how I remove those, but I'm not sure what level of control I have over them...

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I have Adsense on loonyasylum.net and never see such Ads, all the Ads I get are relevant to the contents of the page.

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Don't know too much about all this, but have you added Google site maps ?

I think it takes alot of time, but should help the googleb bots. But as has been said before, content is often the best way to get people visiting

Re: Getting people to use my site!
 

hi
to get visitors links are important what you put in you title tags is as well.
meta tags can be useful but modern crawlers dont tend to pay too much attention to them although still good to use em.

and like as been said before good content, when google visits your site it scans the body of your page so make sure that in your document there are words you would use to search t'internet relevant to your subject.

and obviously submit to all the search engines ya can also add your self to dmoz.org

you might not notice a difference straight away, google send its bot out about once a month so could take upto a month for changes to take effect.

i just looked at your source, at the top section.
in your title tag i would add to what you've already got plus more keywords about your site

and pad your meta keywords out (won't hurt)

godda go little un is playing me up lol

Re: Getting people to use my site!
 

Right, I think you should have a major rethink. Giving out news using a forum is not the way to go...there are plenty of good forums out there that are going to do it better than yours...thats a fact.

What i think you should do is start a way of giving out news each day via a.......wait for it......a blog !

Def the way to go !

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From the Links page on my site:

Tools4Windows.net
A site with news and discussions on a wide range of Microsoft products.
Date Added: 30.08.06 Visits: 7

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Thanks Anti! :-) I'll put a link to your shortly!

BTW - PHP-Fusion per chance? ;)

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Check the footer ;) :p:

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Yeah - saw that about 2 miliseconds after posting!!

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:D

PHP-Fusion is fantastic. I need to update it to the latest version soon though lol

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Errrrr - yeah - get on with it before hackers come.....ohhh too late! :Yikes::D