Friday, July 14, 2006

Social Bookmarking

I have added social bookmarking below each post as this is a growing aspect of websites - especially blog style websites. It will enable people to add to their social bookmarks page and share with their friends. It is kinda similar in style to viral marketing, but instead of informing your friends of interesting sites, you are letting your friends find sites that appeal to you.

Below each post is 10 social bookmarking links that will allow people to add to their favourites and share with their friends. There are many more social bookmarking sites available on the internet, however, I felt 10 was sufficient for now and have chosen some of the more popular ones to prevent too much clutter at the end of posts.

Hopefully in the long term, the social bookmarking, viral marketing and constant development of links and content will help make the process of establishing my runescape helpsite a lot easier.

I have had a few ups and downs in the search rankings, and there is a considerably higher number of people that visit the main site when I make an appearance in some of the top pages - however, still relatively young for a website, I quickly disappear in the search results again and then only a handful of people find the site.

I have noticed though, that around 10% or so of visitors come back to this site again, whether they find it through a different search term, or have it bookmarked. I do encourage people to bookmark the main site at least as it will give you access to all the blogs associated with the site also and can act as a kind of runescape portal.

Monday, July 10, 2006

Viral Marketing

Since I have introduced several blogs to cover various aspects of Runescape, I was hoping to have the word of my site spread further among the runescape players. However, the main way of finding my site still appears to be through search engines.

I have registered on some forums and tried to make an appearance on some to get the word out that my site exists. Although daily traffic appears to increase slowly but steadily, the main problem is still with getting the site more interactive via the forums or any of the blogs.

For anyone reading this particular post, they can help my site by telling their friends - this is the viral marketing aspect. The blogs offer an ideal way for people to tell their friends about my website existing, as they can simply forward a link to their friend via email (the picture of the letter below each post makes it even easier).

Basically, if any readers find any of my posts interesting or useful, or even some parts of the site, then I would appreciate it if you could share this with your friends and forward any posting that you feel would be of interest to them.

As always, I am on the lookout for guide writers and am especially interested in quest guide writers as I am looking to add more content to my main site over the next few months in the hope of catching up to the same level of content as other established sites. Any help to achieve this is appreciated, so I ask if you know anyone that is wanting to write guides, or has already written guides, then let them know about my site.

Thanks.

Latona.

ps. Dont forget to bookmark my site and visit regularly as I plan to update both the main site and the associated blogs on a regular basis.

pps. Dont forget to tell your friends :P

Friday, July 07, 2006

Another Launch?

I recently found an interesting site that lets you edit in and make your own Newspaper Clipping. I thought I would try it out and see what it looked like.

Here is the result - it took me a couple of minutes but it looks ok.

Runescape helpsite launch by Latona