I am in the process of building a speciality joke site and I have about 50 jokes, pictures and insults. Once the visitor looks at everthing, they will leave. I don't have enough jokes where I can just add a new one every day. I have a poll, and I don't want a forum until I start getting heavy traffic.
What are some of the thing I can (or webmasters in general) do to keep visitors coming back?
All comments and suggestions are welcome!!!
CptAwesome posted this at 22:00 — 18th March 2005.
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Well, you could stagger the release of the jokes/images put out a few new ones every week, or maybe a newsletter type thing. Let users submit their own jokes, etc.
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teammatt3 posted this at 03:06 — 19th March 2005.
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Any other ideas?
bja888 posted this at 04:04 — 19th March 2005.
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Newsletter sounds good. You need to add more everyday. Tell people to check back everyday. Keep adding new things like aim Icons and anything funny.
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andy206uk posted this at 14:22 — 22nd March 2005.
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Get more jokes! There are millions of websites all over the net that contain thousands of jokes! How difficult can it be?
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MidHost Staff posted this at 16:36 — 22nd March 2005.
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WealthStream posted this at 20:11 — 22nd March 2005.
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Create a blog to go along with your site, and update it frequently.
teammatt3 posted this at 22:34 — 22nd March 2005.
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The problem is, there aren't any more jokes on the net about the subject (I'm not telling you what it is though) I have spent several hours searching for new ones but I have all of them. So adding more jokes is out of the question. I'll think of something...
But, for other types of sites, what keeps visitors coming back?
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Dragon of Ice posted this at 23:37 — 22nd March 2005.
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Scheduled updates. It makes people go to the site every period once they know when the update will be.
LeahCarter posted this at 23:52 — 22nd March 2005.
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You DEFINATLY need a newsletter. When we send ours out, within 10 minutes theres ppl back at our site.
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