8 Ways To Get People To Visit Your Web Site Again and Again

Getting visitors to your web site is not one of the easiestthings to do especially if you've only just set up your website. The trick here is to find as many ways as possible toget the visitors, that do visit your site, to come backagain and again.

Here are 8 ways you can achieve this:

1. Start a blog

Yes, everyone else, including my grandmother, has a blog.You should start one too. A blog is a great way to get yourvisitors to return to your web site. Especially if youfrequently update it with entries that are relevant to yourvisitors' needs. And also that occasional odd entry onwhat's happening in your personal life. A blog can greatlyincrease the personal touch of your web site. And yourvisitors are more likely to come back.

2. Start a forum

An active discussion forum may be all that you need toattract repeat visitors to your web site. You'll generallyget two types of visitors to your active forum. a) One whoseeks help and b) one who provides help. If your forum isactive with these two types of visitors, you can almostguarantee repeat (as well as new) visits for many times tocome.

3. Provide a free useful tool

Every one loves free stuffs. Try and provide a free onlinetool, that's hosted on your web site of course.If your toolis very useful to your visitors, they will come again andagain to use this tool. Example of tools include a bannercreator, web site popularity checker, or html generator etc.

4. Free Stuff

Don't just stop there. People really love to get free stuff.List free stuff on your web site. It could be software,services, sample products, e-books etc. The freebies shouldbe related to your web site topic. Keep the freebies comingand your visitors will return regulary. You could maybe adda monthly freebie to your site.

5. Encourage feedback

Have a section on your web site or open a forum especiallyfor visitor and subscriber feedback. You could write a smallline at the bottom of the articles on your page to invitereaders to leave feedback about the article. Or get yoursubscribers to leave feedback on your ezine topic for thatmonth. Make sure you reply to their feedback. Not only willthis increase repeat visitors to your site, but you'll alsohave happy subscribers.

6. Publish an online version of your ezine

Though email ezines are popular and wide spread, you shouldalso publish an online version of your ezine at your website. There are bound to be some subscribers who wouldprefer the online version. This would bring them back toyour web site.

7. Original Content

This is by far the best way to get your visitors to comeback for more. Give your visitors content they can't readanywhere else. I'm not saying all your content has to be100% original, but a portion of your web site should haveoriginal information. People will usually read informationthey haven't read before.

8. Prize Drawings

Hold an ongoing prize drawing on your web site. The prizesshould be something of interest or value to yoursubscribers. Most people who enter will continually revisityour web site to get the results.

There you go. 8 ways to get your web site visitors comingback for more.

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