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Old 03-02-2007, 09:45 PM How do I get more visitors and better content
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Hi I am wondering on how I can get more visitors to my website my website is TechnologyForever.com does any one know of something I could possible add on my site that would bring more users and is allowed in my agreement with site5 the agreement is here http://www.site5.com/support/terms-shared.php
I am interested in royalty free content a my space type of deal that does not use a lot of bandwidth

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Old 03-02-2007, 10:18 PM Re: How do I get more visitors and better content
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Your default page is tiny - most of the screen is black, with the site in the middle. I think you can get away with using more screen space. On that note, your site really looks like it's geared toward video games (only), although your domain name would let you expand this niche, and be able to attract more traffic.

No offense, but things are kind of bare right now. I'd focus on content for a while and work on attracting viewers, as a first step, so they have reason to stick around. That's a bit of a catch-22, since you'll want lots of traffic in your forums to be able to attract more; you might want to seed your forums with some creative ideas for topics? It looks like you're planning to add a review section; this is a great way to attract readers to a technology site. ( PM me if you'd like reviews on a couple of digital SLRs. )

The terms of service you're working under are perfectly reasonable, and shouldn't give you any problems. Basically, don't do anything illegal, and you should be in the clear.

Also, for future reference, don't drop links with "my site" as anchor text; that will really only help you if people do a search for "my site." The one in your sig is much better, although you might want to go a step further. Try using two words ( "Technology Forever" ) since you'll already do well if someone searches for your domain name. In future, drop links to your review section like come check out my review of such and such. You'll come up for words that aren't even on your page if they're the anchor text in enough links pointing to you. "Click here" is nowhere on Adobe's site, yet they're the #1 result, probably from blogs writing about their downloads.

Sign up for Google Webmaster Tools & Analytics, both of which are free. These will give you some feedback on how your efforts are working out, where people are coming from. Oh, and if you'd like, you're welcome to use any of my creative commons photos if you attribute them to me with a link. None is particularly tech oriented, though.
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Old 03-02-2007, 10:39 PM Re: How do I get more visitors and better content
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I'm going to agree with everything Forrest said. I think the most important thing for you to do now is build content since there isn't much there right now. You have to give people a reason to visit. Attracting people to your site now will just result in a lot of people leaving fast.

I know there are more games out there you can add and you can write reviews of the games and as Forrest said given your domain name you can certainly expand on the subject.

With the forums you do need to attract members and get some threads going. You might want to limit the number of different forums you have at the start since having a bunch of threads in just a few forums will probably look more active than a lot of forums with just a few threads each.

We have a thread here on how to get traffic to a forum, which should give you some tips on attracting members.

Mostly add more content to your site.

I'm moving this thread to Internet and Marketing since it's unlikely you're going to get the advice you want in the php forum.
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Old 03-02-2007, 11:36 PM
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While then does anybody know any royalty free content that I do not need to link back to the site it came from and does anyone know of any thing that would be cool to add that doesn't cost anything. more than what I already have

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Also Does any one know how to make a cartoon in flash because I want to convert it to a real video format and upload it to Google video you tube and My Space video so that I can advertise and have a commercial

What about a random photo displayer with user artwork.

And does anyone know of a good PHP compatible RSS parser

P.S. Does anyone know where of any good video game news rss feed and is it legal to use yahoo's rss or cnn's ?
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Old 03-03-2007, 12:28 AM Re: How do I get more visitors and better content
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Generally, it's not legal to use CNN or Yahoo's feeds without being licensed to ( read: $$$ ). They're a lot like mp3 files, or software; they all fall under the umbrella of intellectual property.

You can have users submit photos and do a pic of the day. PhotoSig does something a lot like that. You'll need to make your users grant you the right to publish the photos, but most people don't have a problem with that.

If you want to attract more than a dozen users, though, you need to put together something unique, instead of grabbing a bunch of scripts and RF images, for a few reasons. First, you're trying to get people to come to your site instead of where you found the stuff, which already has plenty of users. Second, when you do a search and it says "duplicate results have been omitted ..." that's Google's duplicate content filter. If you want the search engines to bring people to your doorstep, you need to feed them content that isn't already indexed.

If you know PHP, you can throw together a few scripts, and invite comment on them in your forums. And/or blog about games, and everything else you want to cover.
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Old 03-05-2007, 03:09 PM Re: How do I get more visitors and better content
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Um, if I understand the question ( and I'm pretty sure I do, having read your reaction to the replies ), you want to make money off the work other people have done, without giving them credit or a share of your profit. But you're not willing to do any work yourself.

Why are you asking about ideas that don't violate your server's TOS? I just read the terms. They say don't steal. Why would you even have to be worried about this? Doesn't smell right.

And what does "my forum which has a better webmaster section" mean?
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