Attracting Potential Customers To Your Web Site or Blog
by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood

Having a pretty looking website is simply not enough to attract those potential visitors and hopefuly your eventual customers. You simply need to bait the proverbial hook using the right bait in the first place. With this is mind here are 10 really cool ways to attract people to your website over and over again and keep them coming back for more.

The most potent bait to use on your website hook is to use the simple four letter word FREE.

Yes this simple concept draws visitors like ants to a sugar pile and costs you nothing to implement. By using these 10 methods you could easily build trust between you and your customer base, leading the way to them being converted more easily into ongoing ones who are more apt to buy the products or services you may later offer them.

1. Give people a free subscription to your e-zine. Almost everyone is publishing a e-zine nowadays so it's important to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a free gift or advertising when people subscribe.

2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it's up-to-date or original. You could also offer people the option to reprint the content in their e-zine or web site.

3. Offer a free online directory. The directory could be full of interesting ebooks, e-zines, web sites etc. If people find your directory to be a valuable resource they will visit it over and over.

4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could also include your own ad in the ebook and allow other people to give it away. If you don't want to take the time to write one, you could ask other writers permission to use their articles.

EXAMPLE
Download your Free copy of this powerful ebook "Blogging 4 Profits" from our Niche E-Book Collection compiled by John Elliott aka Oaky Wood http://thecorner4women.com/Blogging4Profits.htm

5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your web site's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your web site. You will become known as an expert on the topic.

6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results.

7. Let visitors download free software. It could be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away.

8. Offer free online services or utilities from your web site. They could be search engine submitting, copy writing proofreading etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience.

EXAMPLE
Add this FR*EE Online Keyword Resource to your favorites and use it regularly for upto date information on keywords for your ongoing SEO and niche article writing. It's a highly recommended fr*ee resource to add to your webmastering tool kit http://thecorner4women.com/NEC/Wordtracking.htm

9. Give free consulting to people who visit your web site. You could offer your knowledge via e-mail or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive.

10. Give your visitors a free membership to your online club. People want to belong to something, why not your online club. You could also give away a free e-zine for club members only.

Here's to your ongoing success

John
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
John Elliott Aka Oaky Wood is the Co-Founder of "The Corner 4 Women ©2006/07" http://thecorner4women.com is a Poet, writer, artist, webmaster and designer.

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