Content vs speed

Posted by multippt

Speedily updating a site is a nice way of getting visitors to stay on your site, however don’t let that be a priority. Updating a site often is not a feasible thing to do if you are working alone. Rather, you should “invest” or venture into other areas that are able to get you a sustained amount of visitors.

Speed alone (i.e. news)

While updating a site steadily will net you a steady stream of visitors more easily than any other method, it’s the updating that takes the most out of you. Blogs are a popular example - update it frequently, and people are bound to find it, somehow or rather. However, it takes a significant amount of updating to get people to return to the site.

Content alone

Having quality content is an important ingredient for any site. However, quality content is hard to come by, and takes a lot of work, simply because you can’t make “quality content” in just a day - it takes accumulation of all that hard work. Did Wikipedia went public when it is nearly empty? No. Wikipedia was popular because it contained great and complete content.

Wikis usually seem to fare better in search engines than any other site (unless the site itself is a search engine or a tool). This is because Wikis are briming with information and organized in a way that almost everything in it is considered quality in the eyes of anyone (e.g. Wikia and all its Wikis are a good example).

Tool and Software alone

Tools tend to keep visitors better if it is incredibly useful. Search engines and traffic trackers fall under this category. Statcounter proved itself that giving out a free service doesn’t always mean they won’t gain anything. Google and Yahoo are another example. However, in order to make an incredible tool, you need plenty of time, and experience.

Similarly, software is a traffic magnet as well. Firefox is a huge magnet of traffic, drawing those who had enough with Microsoft. However, making the software itself ain’t good enough. Updates should follow every piece of thing you work with, otherwise people will get bored playing with version 1.0. Firefox didn’t stay at 1.0, it continued right up to 2.0.10. That’s a whole lot of updating.

Projects are another possible source of traffic. Sourceforge make advertising certain large scale projects easier, to the extent that the traffic generated is sustainable in the long run (e.g. the eMule torrent client). But, that’s for large projects only. Small projects do not fare well in this, and they do not last long in the spotlight.

Combo?

Combinations are great, but they can be pretty messy at times. It might be a good opportunity to split up different sections of your site into strictly independent areas. You can’t have a news site and a download site together, you have to have them separate. It’s like a rule and almost everyone have attempted to put them into a strictly isolated area (e.g. CNET splitting news.com.com and download.com from each other, and QuickJournal making a site dedicated to downloading stuff featured in its multiple blogs).

It’s a matter of preference and the amount of resources you have. But do try to create more than one area of your site worth visiting.

Gexes hits 200+ unique a month!

Posted by signup

 A site developed by me on October 28th, with a specific target visitors, gained popularity less than two days. I’ve about to write this as some tips for some sites ;) . Looks like yesterday Gexes recieves more than 200+ unique visitors a day! With deriving 5Gb bandwidth a month.
Gexes.com has a traffic rank of:  2,102,478 , with a SEO score of 88% (use to be 97%, but i removed some things)
I’m amazed to see a site developed 10 days, and already has gain popularity.

Here are some tips you should do to improve your site:
- Make your site special, and something you would go visit for, pretend you are a visitor (example: I made a rapidshere dowloader site, because i needed to download off rapidshare easier, since i used rapidshare a lot, and I know a forum full of visitors needing this)
- Take a minute to look at your site, think about it, if you were a visitor, what would you want, and what did you hate (As I took a look at my site, I wrote down some changes i needed to do)
- Have a nice design by anyone, or you, something you like!
- Create an account at Google, and submit your link (be sure to verify your site!)
- Add a meta description, and a meta tag! (Search engines some of them still use it! It boosts your SEO Score)
- Title Relevancy, is a key for site search engines. be sure to make a good title, and add the same title onto your site somewhere! And do the same for description relevancy the same as you di with your META description!
- Make most of the links towards your site, such as redirecting to another site, go to your cpanel, and setup a rediction if your going o add links to other sites (I did tevine.com, so i made a redirection url www.gexes.com/www.tevine.com and it points to my domain and goes to tevine!)
- As posted as news in Tevine, use a Alexa url method, to raise your ranking! Such as http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?http://YOURDOMAIN.COM/
- Advertise your site to forums specifically on the topic of your site, and somewhere most users will need your site.

Thats all I did for now, and thats how i seemed to accomplish this. Thanks!