Adding stickiness to your website. 

When I first heard the term \"Website Stickiness\", the first thing I thought of was a website that didn\'t flow smoothly.   Imagine how surprised I was when I discovered the expression actually means making your website sooooo interesting, sooooo entertaining, sooooo informative that visitors will want to return time after time after time!  Wow weeeeee!  That said it all didn\'t it!  We know now just how important it is to add stickiness to our website.  Once we knew that, that\'s exactly what we started working on.  Below is a list of a few of the thing that we do to add stickiness to our website.  We hope that you find some helpful information that you can use on your website too.

1 - ADD A WEBMASTER PAGE TO YOUR SITE!   

Hummmm....... this very page is adding stickiness.  It fits the description of adding information--- and adding interest.  The subject alone......  \"WEBMASTERS\" is a draw all of it\'s own.  Why?  Because it\'s a wholeeeee lotttttt of webmasters out there and even more beginnerrrrrr webmasters!  So by making a webmaster page we filled a needed subject matter to our viewers.  Once a reader clicks on our link and they start to read our pages, they find out that it\'s helpful information that\'s not threatening and it\'s also not trying to fool you into buying something.  Once a reader confirms this then they stay on the page and they continue to read the information that the site has to offer.  See..... when you gain the confidence of your readers, you then add stickiness AGAIN!  You see, many many websites have a webmaster page.  You see them all the time when your surfing different sites right? -- but you never knew why everyone put them on their site.  Some webmaster pages just focus on how they can make money from you visiting their page.......  but true Stickiness is----.

Interesting subject matter. 

Subject fills a needed void.

Subject keeps the readers interest.

Gains the confidence of the reader.

Entertaining.

 Informative.

Not threatening.

Reaching your target audience.  (webmasters)

Now ya\' know what Stickiness is all about!  (Smileeeeeeee)

2 - E-MAIL THIS PAGE TO A FRIEND OPTION. 

This is one of the simplest things that a website can do to add stickiness to their site.  We use Homestead to build our site, so a button is provided for anyone who wants to use it on their pages.  But all you have to do is ad your own button at the bottom of your website page.

Often a visitor to your website will want to share the information they have discovered with a friend.  This is exactly what your trying to accomplish.  Adding this option, guarantees that the link will be correct. Andddddddd!  An email from a friend is more likely to be read than unsolicited email.

3 - MAKE YOUR SITE INTERACTIVE

Well what does that mean?  Well add interesting pages to your site that will make the visitor actually interact with the page and have reason to return back again.  When a page engages a visitor it will make the visitor return again and again and this adds even more Stickiness!  We have games that you can play on our site that engages the visitor and you can also send E-Cards from our site.

Again this is something that the visitor interacts with and every time it\'s a Holiday, the visitor has a reason to return back again and resend more Greeting Cards.  Stickinesssss Stickinessssss Stickinessss!  Now these are what we use for our site because it fits the theme of our site and naturally we know that these ideas will not work for everyone....but I\'m sure that once you think about what your own sites theme is, you will be able to think up several other ideas that will work for you. 

Other ideas for your site would be...........

Travel Sites -- map search options

Financial website -- calculators

Weather reports

Web Blogs

 4 -SOMETHING TO RETURN BACK FOR!

Everybody lovesssss great reading content!  Reading Content like Updating Headline News or Fresh Content that relates to your website is fantastic and adds tremendous Stickiness!  If your planning on having e-zine, newsletter, ebook, print publication or your looking for content for your own website then finding places that you can get great articles is what you want to look for.

Now if your a really good writer then you can pick a subject matter and write your own updates on your pages each day.  If your not a good writer or if your just short for time.....  then you can find great Articles just like this one from many places like ArticleCity.com or ValuableContent.com - or get self updating News Feeds that you can place on your site that will update itself and you don\'t have to worry about it.

If you would like to read more about Stickiness Tips then visit                                          http://www.gone-ta-pott.com/webmaster2.html  

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Author:  Pamela Svoboda - website owner and webmaster of http://www.gone-ta-pott.com

The Home of \"Oceans-Of-Fun,\" \"The Tastiest Recipe Directory on the Net,\" \"The Only Marketing Directory that Growls,\" and \"Cookin\' With Coffee.\"

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