Why dont you just make him a target of your wikilympics, that will give him some traffic ;-) merry happy to all, mctim
On 12/24/10, Mugarura Cavin <[email protected]> wrote: > Lug, > > when you have friends, who ask too much, then life becomes hard > my O.B. runs a uganda directory site, and he asked me how he can attract > traffic, i ll not share the site, because it was designed poorly, > and it deserves no attention from LUG, however, i shared with him a few > points (only 20), which might be useful to a few members of LUG > > 1. > > Have fresh content (no shortcuts) > 2. > > RSS feeds (very good way to attract traffic), make sure the feeds are > relevant to your site, > > there are some good rss feed aggregator which you can train (rank) to > bring you quality feeds. If your website targets the food industry dont > pull > sports feeds (common sense) > 3. > > have a site map > 4. > > use a seo checklist module > 5. > > Have meta tags > 6. > > section 508 compliance (targeting disabled users - an important > demographic) > 7. > > Avoid flash if you can, search engines hate flash (full stop, no comma) > 8. > > Add no follow tags to content that doesnt belong to you > 9. > > Avoid duplicate content (same as 8) > 10. > > Ask your friends, family and the general public to test your site (make > sure you have no broken links) > 11. > > Make sure you have a search box (seems like a no brainer but I have seen > large corporations with no search feature on their site) > 12. > > Have freebies (manuals) > 13. > > Video is the new text (with youtube as the third most popular website in > the world, ignore video at your own peril) > 14. > > If you have a login page, Allow open ID (twitter, facebook,gmail, yahoo > logins), dont induate (spell checker cant get the correct word) users > with > long unnecessary login procedures > 15. > > Monitor your traffic (alexa, google seo tools, etc) > 16. > > include language translation > 17. > > submit your website to leading directories and search engines > 18. > > Study algorithms for leading search engines (find out what you can be > black listed for) > 19. > > optimize your website for performance, implement a caching system for the > most popular sections of your site > 20. > > use search engine friendly urls > > Disclaimer: This is by no means an exhaustive list, but simply a starting > point > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- Sent from my mobile device Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
