There is a lot of talk about SEO and how that can drive traffic to your website. There is also a lot of talk about blogging and social networking such as using Digg for your articles all in the hopes that somehow something that you write will go viral. But what about making your website go viral?
Ok well that’s probably not going to happen. I mean really I don’t think the kids are going to find my Eau Claire real estate website that exciting and adults aren’t probably going to spread the link love or even forward your site to thousands of people. But they might share your site with a few people. Those people might like your site and share it with their friends. Well it might not be the Dengue fever of viral diseases but we can still make your website a slowly spreading disease. Isn’t that a lovely picture?
Well if you aren’t sick to your stomach and you still want your website to be spread around you need to make the tools available to your visitors. Now this is a bit easier for me to do than probably most people because I have a Joomla! website and millions of great programmers around the world building incredible modules. So for me I just find something I like and press a few buttons and voila, I have cool stuff. But you can do it too. First let’s see what I am talking about.
If you aren’t looking at my Eau Claire Real Estate website check it out now so you can see what I am talking about here. But over on the right you can see I added some stuff to not only let people share it on their social networks but also so they can tell a friend. I think these are two very different things and it’s important to address them. It makes it so much easier to basically speed up the process of word of mouth and it adds an interesting, more modern way of basically doing the same thing. Sure they could just send a link to your website in an email but everyone likes using FaceBook so why not make it easier?
So how can you dress up your site?
Widgets. Badges. One or the other. Both? A lot of them? A few of them? Whatever you think is appropriate. Here is an example link http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
It’s up to you to decide how you want to do this. I can’t design your site for you but I can hopefully show you some really cool ways to get your site noticed and shared. Oh and in case you wonder how you add these to your site it’s just a simple code that you embed but if web design isn’t your forte then talk to your site designer and see what they can do. Show them some examples if they aren’t sure what you mean.
My point with this is that everyone talks about blogging and trying to make that easier to be shared but seldom does anyone talk about how to share your website. So make your website 2.0 compatible and make it stand out.
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