If there is one thing that people are being told to do with our websites is to add new content. Although this is easy said, how will you add quality useful content regularly? Most smaller businesses is one or a couple companies who’re trying to fit everything in all at the same time. Adding an internet page every day for their website is real hard work and sadly isn’t seen as a business priority.
If you’re stuck within this rut and haven’t updated your site for a while, it might be time to add some user generated content facilities.
User generated content to put it simply, is allowing your site visitors to add their content for your site. It might be some feedback on the product or review. It could be a posting on your website forum. What about letting visitors post articles to your site or letting them add themselves for your business directory?
Can you observe how this can raise the interactivity of the website and reveal that it is constantly being updated? Search engines like google particularly like a constantly updated website. The greater you update, the more often they will send their search engine spiders and crawlers to talk to your site.
Don’t misunderstand me though, there’s still a bit of work to do, you’ll have to manage and approve what submissions are to become put live but an hour approving 20 or 30 pages of new completely unique content must be a good thing. Are you able to think how long it will take to create that amount of content? Twenty to thirty hours if you write as slowly as me!
Okay , so what can I actually do to add some User Generated Content to my Site?
Here are some ideas for content generation. Where possible I have also added links to get some free scripts that you can use.
Article Content
You could allow users to submit articles to your site. You could then begin using these on your website or newsletter. Having a large selection of articles rated for your specific niche is an extremely positive thing and supply your visitors with a few great content and a fresh perspective. You can advertise for Authors or ask others in your industry. Experts could sign themselves up with an account and begin article marketing. You’d adjust need to spend a couple of minutes approving or declining before publishing.
Forums
One thing that gets a site interactive quicker than other things is the addition of a Forum or Bulletin Board. Giving Visitors a platform to go over your products, services and marketplace in general is a superb way to build traffic. Some sites even use a facility to build and send out newsletters for their registered users based on their Forums.
Guestbooks
While not as popular anymore, there’s nothing stopping you utilizing a Guestbook to drive more content to your site. Ask people to stop by and leave a comment.
Make sure you police it though! You might find your web hosting comes complete with a GuestBook Script. You can use GuestBooks in many different ways, just because it’s a Guest Book Script does not mean you need to use it as such. You could utilize it to post site updates or product info snippets. You could use it to develop Testimonials.
Comment Scripts
With the advent of Blogs came the ability to leave a comment on your posts which helped build this content in your site. Now, you will find scripts around that you could add to your site pages, such as article or product review pages, and allow visitors to leave comments. This then implies that your pages are changing constantly and a changing page is as good as a new page for that search engine spiders.
If you’re stuck within this rut and haven’t updated your site for a while, it might be time to add some user generated content facilities.
User generated content to put it simply, is allowing your site visitors to add their content for your site. It might be some feedback on the product or review. It could be a posting on your website forum. What about letting visitors post articles to your site or letting them add themselves for your business directory?
Can you observe how this can raise the interactivity of the website and reveal that it is constantly being updated? Search engines like google particularly like a constantly updated website. The greater you update, the more often they will send their search engine spiders and crawlers to talk to your site.
Don’t misunderstand me though, there’s still a bit of work to do, you’ll have to manage and approve what submissions are to become put live but an hour approving 20 or 30 pages of new completely unique content must be a good thing. Are you able to think how long it will take to create that amount of content? Twenty to thirty hours if you write as slowly as me!
Okay , so what can I actually do to add some User Generated Content to my Site?
Here are some ideas for content generation. Where possible I have also added links to get some free scripts that you can use.
Article Content
You could allow users to submit articles to your site. You could then begin using these on your website or newsletter. Having a large selection of articles rated for your specific niche is an extremely positive thing and supply your visitors with a few great content and a fresh perspective. You can advertise for Authors or ask others in your industry. Experts could sign themselves up with an account and begin article marketing. You’d adjust need to spend a couple of minutes approving or declining before publishing.
Forums
One thing that gets a site interactive quicker than other things is the addition of a Forum or Bulletin Board. Giving Visitors a platform to go over your products, services and marketplace in general is a superb way to build traffic. Some sites even use a facility to build and send out newsletters for their registered users based on their Forums.
Guestbooks
While not as popular anymore, there’s nothing stopping you utilizing a Guestbook to drive more content to your site. Ask people to stop by and leave a comment.
Make sure you police it though! You might find your web hosting comes complete with a GuestBook Script. You can use GuestBooks in many different ways, just because it’s a Guest Book Script does not mean you need to use it as such. You could utilize it to post site updates or product info snippets. You could use it to develop Testimonials.
Comment Scripts
With the advent of Blogs came the ability to leave a comment on your posts which helped build this content in your site. Now, you will find scripts around that you could add to your site pages, such as article or product review pages, and allow visitors to leave comments. This then implies that your pages are changing constantly and a changing page is as good as a new page for that search engine spiders.
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