From: Michael Butash > Whatever such you intend for them to do once there, you first > need to drive people there, meaning you need to be found, and > not immediately closed as irrelevant. > Pick out a theme, just don't go crazy and make it myspace-ish > with nauseating graphics everywhere. Then look up "search > engine optimization" and dig to get it out there. Pretty good advice there. SEO: make sure the meta tags for description and keywords are correct/relevant, make sure you're using

appropriately, make sure robots.txt allows various search engines to look at your site. Also, don't go overboard on trying to be (like this on Spacebook!) hyper-relevant and/or more (+1 this on Googel!) socially connected than (bleat this!) every other site since it can get (crow202Spot this!) annoying. Also also, if you have popup, popunder, sound-using, or screen-taking-over ads on your site, people will want to hunt you down and beat you with a bag of doorknobs instead of spending time at your site. > Tough part is giving someone a reason to stay around your site - one > page won't do that, let alone sell a cause. Getting people to visit one page isn't insanely difficult. Getting people to *explore* a site or visit it regularly seems to require one or more of: * regularly updated interesting text or images * a reasonably active user community that posts comments and aren't all complete raving jerks * a product for sale that people actually want * pictures of nearly-naked cute people ...at least that's what I've seen. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss