Our most recent poll here at Young Entrepreneur asks you “What was the best thing that you’ve ever done for your website?”
Last week I updated what some of the top replies were:
- Getting a website co-founder
- Using a SEO-friendly blogging platform
- Re-designing / overhauling my blog
- Rewriting website code in compliant XHTML
- Using Twitter
- Outsourcing the website creation
- Moving blog from a free to paid template
- Using StumbleUpon
- Leveraging a social media campaign
- Creating a blog off of my website
- Coming up with a regular blog posting schedule
- Using video and audio for branding purposes
In the past week there has been a new surge of responses which include:
- Testing my site traffic and redesigning my site based on the result.- Got #1 on Google for 3 of target keywords.- Built a social network of almost 350 podcasters from 16 countries at PodcasterWhosWho.com.- Google Adwords- I re-established my site, which used to be primarily content based, to have a social networking aspect to it. This made the user feel as though they are more in tuned with the site and usability went up drastically.- Content is king, and I’m not saying that because I have a company that writes content for sites. It is BECAUSE content is so important that I started one.- Posting articles/blogging seems to be working for the sites I run. After that always making sure SEO is good and trying to garner some good backlinks from other related websites- best thing I did was provide content people wanted to read.- The other big thing is to utilize facebook heavily if you are targeting a young crowd. They love it.
This is your last chance to have your say before I compile the complete list! Please share what has worked for you so that other young entrepreneurs can learn from your success. To leave your advice just comment below!
Stay tuned next week for the results!
Evan Carmichael
I would definitely have so say using Twitter. I access Twitter from my webtop several times a day. I use it to communicate with friends, promote a new blog post/website entry and also to educate myself on my topic. I have gained quite a bit of traffic just by using Twitter.
I would say re-launching a cleanly designed website that has been created using the latest Web 2.0 standards such as CSS, and W3C code compliancy. This has been the best makeover for me and it lays the foundation for future search engine optimization success plus a host of other great Web 2.0 opportunities.
Jason Coles
3 Dogs Marketing
I would agree that these days, there is a ton of power in tying your website in with your Twitter account. Weekly digests, if you are at all prolific on Twitter, provides a nice easy and valuable post to your readers.
After reading through the article, I just feel that I really need more info. Can you suggest some more resources ?