Maybe it's not the best, I would like to hear for better ways, could you be so kind to share them with us and tell us why they are better? Personally I want to direct more traffic from SE 'cause this means that I will get good constant traffic for quite a time if I get it right.


I agree that success is based on that. My questions about SE is that currently I'm on this stage of the site. I don't want to miss any stage of the development of course, and don't want to skip any stage also. I've already did my homework on - what and how shall the user see when he comes, what he'll be interested at, why he'll be interested in, when he'll be interested, what more can I give to him that he wasn't expecting, how can I make him a FAN of my site. But as I said, I don't wanna miss the SE traffic, direct traffic will always be smaller part of the traffic in my opinion (based on researching the stats of some sites) and referral traffic I think is more inconsistent. You gotta work for it every single day - post on social sites, comment on sites etc. I want to have such content that actually the visitors will do part of this job for me, because the content is great they really are adoring it.

Maybe it's not the best, I would like to hear for better ways, could you be so kind to share them with us and tell us why they are better? Personally I want to direct more traffic from SE 'cause this means that I will get good constant traffic for quite a time if I get it right.


I agree that success is based on that. My questions about SE is that currently I'm on this stage of the site. I don't want to miss any stage of the development of course, and don't want to skip any stage also. I've already did my homework on - what and how shall the user see when he comes, what he'll be interested at, why he'll be interested in, when he'll be interested, what more can I give to him that he wasn't expecting, how can I make him a FAN of my site. But as I said, I don't wanna miss the SE traffic, direct traffic will always be smaller part of the traffic in my opinion (based on researching the stats of some sites) and referral traffic I think is more inconsistent. You gotta work for it every single day - post on social sites, comment on sites etc. I want to have such content that actually the visitors will do part of this job for me, because the content is great they really are adoring it.

All traffic is good traffic (unless your a cat! LOL).

Search engine traffic is indeed important but for some types of sites its often not the best mechanism. Localized sites for example will often attain more traffic (regional) by looking for sites within the region who have traffic and are often very very cheap to advertise on (like local blogs).

Of course as you noted, posting at Social Net sites, forums, blogs which may or may not be considered "Spammin's" can also bring really good traffic spammin's or not. The goal is succeed. The key to this is make sure it doesnt look just like spammin'. Many people come into Portaliz for example and spam and clearly have zero clue as to what they are even doing which is why they will fail irregardless of spammin's. They'd be better off spending their time building a plan instead of wasting their time when in fact they "WILL" fail because ya can just tell... no brains under the hood.

Link exchanges STILL WORK as well and the keyword here is find RELATED types of sites. In other words, you dont want a competing (even though they really are not) site linking as your traffic might become their traffic. In other words, a link exchange with a "close match" site might actually CREATE that competition.

Mailing lists, cant say enough about em'. Anyone/everyone who sets up a website should have a bulk mailing ability be that for newsletters or this or that. RIght after a site is live, it should be step #2. Treat mailing lists like gold, cuz' they are. If you spam people in a mailing list you become stinky sox. If you do well by them not only will they love you but they will have others loving you as well. When considering mailing list or lists consider who you believe is coming into your site, consider yourself as well... What would YOU want see show up in your email from your site. In other words, step out of the box.

There are other things to keep in mind with mailing lists. MAKE EM' PERSONAL is ALWAYS a grand idea. A newsletter might have all sorts of facts on say economy of travel, what deals are out there etc. But its that PERSONAL piece of content that really needs GRAB EM'. Additionally as I noted... Think of the site visitor. Webmasters should ALWAYS think of visitors to their site as CUSTOMERS whether they are buying anything or not because it is IN FACT what they are. We want them to consume information, consume ad's, buy things, click here or there... ANY WHICH WAY ITS CUT THEY ARE CONSUMERS.

They are also using the Internet (obviously) so that means they generally DIG technology.

While I may be "Kitty Guru" and part of the Cat reporting UFO network (Mewfon)    - One of the very big CONSTANTS I see on the Internut is that most folks dont have a clue how all this technology works. That they are also always looking for fascinating stuff.

So... You can help them LEARN and if you do it with zest' and some ooo' la la fun they will LOOK FORWARD to getting your newsletter or bulk-mails. If you put a little box in with "This week or this months" fascinating links they will be happy as well. I mean links to really GOOD STUFF that they may not even know exists, IMDB etc. and of course lesser places. Links to places that ANYONE/EVERYONE would find a resource, interesting etc. Give them the ability to send you fascinating links for inclusion. People love to be part of things (cept' me of course).

While a website itself has a certain amount of "BE ON POINT" that must be followed it does not mean that ways to draw traffic in need always keep that same vein. The neat thing about the Nut... I mean net is you can try LOTS of things and it costs basically nothing so when trying to get more traffic you can play around with a broader peripheral vision (if you will) in things like mail blasts.

This was a great reply meowser!!! Thank you so much. In fact this will be my first site with a mailing list. There are already a few hundreds of users on the site so they will be the first on the list and I'm reading about how to create interesting mail list and was having an idea on what to write and how to write it but I totally forgot about this around the preparation of the new site and you not just remembered me this but add so much valuable information! And the little sites and blogs - this is a hint that I missed completely (and will not do it again ). Again thank you so much. Thinking out of the box always works.
I remembered one other good way (maybe we already spoke of it here, or maybe not I can't remember) for making heard of your site - free and paid revues. Look for a sites on the same broad subject as yours and convince them to make a review for your site. These sites are already trusted ones and such review can give an initial boost of visitors to grow your project fast and it will make your site more trustworthy because the "big flashy" site is saying good words about you.

Indeed... Every site large or small should ALWAYS have a mailing list. If using say a CMS like Joomla I recommend using an external maillist manager like Interspire lets say. The reason is the mailing list really is not "tied" and need not be "tied" to the CMS system. Alot of people who use CMS systems completely forget that an entire world of webapps exist outside Joomla (or Drupal or Wordpress or this or that) which can STILL be used. Photo galleries, tons of em' exist outside CMS systems. Some items dont work well without "bridges" taking care of logins, logouts etc. But many types of applications, it DOESNT MATTER like... mail lists, most photo or video galleries where user uploads are a "non-issue" lets say.

Credible external entities can indeed lend good traffic to a site. You can also just slap banners up w/o necessarily linking to those sites. Permission? Eh... once in 10,000 times a site might go, "I never said you could do that"... OK, I'll take it down. SCHNEAKY

Alright guys, i gotta question. Before i begin, i am a newbie with all this stuff.

When it comes to football - im teh pro ^_^ But, websites - noop

I recentley downloaded a template,

"Here is the template"

The folder structure:

Site -> Images
Sources -> psd, fonts, flash
Site_flash -> Flash
Screenshots

There is a file called "main.fla" And i have edited it, using flash CS4.
After i had finished editing it, and saved etc.. When i view the produced work, i see no changes.

Ehh, what did i do wrong? Any ideas, thanks.

Where are you reviewing the editied FLA file? "Play it within CS4". Then you need have CS4 generate the HTML which will go into the "HTML" page where the flash it to reside.

Usually you need to "publish" the site using Flash. The short command for this is F12

Thanks for replying:

@ meowser:

The file i am editing is located at 22274 -> Sources -> Flash -> "main.fla"

You also said:


I didn't understand what you meant, can you please be abit more specific.I have edited the writing, from the layers, etc..

@ freezeman

I did publish it using the "F12" key, and i viewed in a browser, it comes out all misplaced, still with no changes that i have made.
I have edited a flash template before, but i havn't come accross a problem like this, is it possible for someone to actually download it, and try it. Then i will known if its my laptop being an arse, or the file itself. Thanks for the help guys.

I dont' want to be rude or anything but graphic or flash design is not the nature of this part of the forum and I believe you will have much more accurate responses and help if you post in such a forum. Me personally have little experience with flash I can't be of any more good that I just was and being 99% of the time on a Linux makes it nearly impossible to run a flash

Thanks anyway...

If its a Template Monster Flash file these are often "locked". Changes cannot be saved on them. Again, when you publish make sure you get the HTML source generated as that what needs to be placed in your webpage.