By: Taban Khajehnassiri
For your site, you need plenty of visitors and it's better to say plenty of repeat visitors, exactly saying, you need your site's visitor - your potential client, visit the site at least seven times after his/her first visit.
A site needs educational and informational content as well as useful and entertaining information to stay and build traffic for its pages. On your own website provide your visitors with what they want and look for, so that your site provide you with more visitors, more attentiion and more sales.
For your site, you need plenty of visitors and it's better to say plenty of repeat visitors, exactly saying, you need your site's visitor - your potential client, visit the site at least seven times after his/her first visit.
In most cases, you build a site and you think you can make mony overnight, righ? No, Wrong!
You build a site and advertise in well-known newspaper or magazine and you think you can get attention for what you have advertise - here I mean your website's URL, placed somewhere at the top or bottom of the page layout of your ad - your marketing message, however, sometimes people, especially those who want to setup a website on the net, forget that on the net, there are millions of millions - corporate and/or individual sites and pages more interesting, more attractive and more entertaining than what you have just added to the net, and this is why they expect their success should happen overnight.
Yes, I know, on this planet, on this world wide Whirlpool, people are all in a hurry. Many people including site owners are under a lot of pressure, they want it all, and they want it right now. They want to sell more, to be contacted sooner than this, and they want fame, fortune and glory, but believe me, it won't happen overnight. In order to build a site you have to think first and then think twice, you need to gather more information, learn and plan. You must first plan a specific topic for what you have in your mind about your website. Then you need time to spend on your site, money to invest, hard work and patience to stay.
This article first published electronically as an editorial of ALL-VISITORS NEWSLETTER - May 2002.