Lug, when you have friends, who ask too much, then life becomes hard my O.B. runs a uganda directory site, and he asked me how he can attract traffic, i ll not share the site, because it was designed poorly, and it deserves no attention from LUG, however, i shared with him a few points (only 20), which might be useful to a few members of LUG
1. Have fresh content (no shortcuts) 2. RSS feeds (very good way to attract traffic), make sure the feeds are relevant to your site, there are some good rss feed aggregator which you can train (rank) to bring you quality feeds. If your website targets the food industry dont pull sports feeds (common sense) 3. have a site map 4. use a seo checklist module 5. Have meta tags 6. section 508 compliance (targeting disabled users - an important demographic) 7. Avoid flash if you can, search engines hate flash (full stop, no comma) 8. Add no follow tags to content that doesnt belong to you 9. Avoid duplicate content (same as 8) 10. Ask your friends, family and the general public to test your site (make sure you have no broken links) 11. Make sure you have a search box (seems like a no brainer but I have seen large corporations with no search feature on their site) 12. Have freebies (manuals) 13. Video is the new text (with youtube as the third most popular website in the world, ignore video at your own peril) 14. If you have a login page, Allow open ID (twitter, facebook,gmail, yahoo logins), dont induate (spell checker cant get the correct word) users with long unnecessary login procedures 15. Monitor your traffic (alexa, google seo tools, etc) 16. include language translation 17. submit your website to leading directories and search engines 18. Study algorithms for leading search engines (find out what you can be black listed for) 19. optimize your website for performance, implement a caching system for the most popular sections of your site 20. use search engine friendly urls Disclaimer: This is by no means an exhaustive list, but simply a starting point -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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