The insider’s guide to a successful website: promote (part 3)

So now that you’ve got a kick-ass website you’re all set, right? Wrong. It doesn’t matter how good your site is – if nobody even knows it exists, then you can’t exactly consider it a success. You need to get out there and promote it. Whether this is via search, social media, word of mouth or telepathy, you’ll need a plan in order to focus your efforts and start getting some serious traffic.

You also need to consider how you’ll react to feedback from your early users. If your site means anything to your audience, there WILL be feedback and you want to encourage it. You should be keeping track of how people are interacting with your site. It’s rare to get things right first time and once a site is in the big wide world hidden issues will inevitably be discovered. The secret here is to react quickly and appropriately.

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