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Developing Content for your Home Business website (Continued)Another good content generation method for your home business is a weblog, perhaps better known as a blog. Search engines tend to love blogs because as a rule they are updated regularly. You could really post just about anything to your weblog including free reprint articles, product or service updates, website updates, and any other bit of information you think your visitors would find useful or information. You can have a sort of diary theme where you just record your thoughts of the day or week. In this way you will have a constant supply of fresh content and the search engines will spider your site more often. A couple of good places to get started are blavnet.com and blogger.com. ou may also want to ad a forum or message board to your site for the same reasons. You will have a constant supply of updated material. The only difference is, in this case, your web site visitors will create the content for you by started 'threads' of discussion and posting replies. You can get started here at phpbb.com. You can also build a directory of related resources for your home business site. Directories typically are well respected and tend to rank very well. You can create many pages of relevent content with a directory. You can have a multitude of categories of related subjects and include important resources there. And because you can constantly update the directory with new resources your content should always stay relatively fresh. If you have a business support site, for instance, you can have sections on many different types of business resources, services and home business tools. In addition, if you want to create even more content, you can further break it down by state, region, or other locality. For example, you could have business organizations for Alabama, Kentucky, Maryland and every other state if you choose. You can create dozens if not hundreds of pages of quality, useful content this way and the search engines will love it. If you have a portfolio of your work (photographers, home builders landscapers, designers and so on), you may want to have an photo gallery or photo album section with your latest work or even a photo archive with a large historical retrospective. This is actually a wonderful method for adding plenty of content-laden pages to your website. You may also decide to have some sort of feedback section on your site as well. You could ask for your site visitors' opinions and can post an opinion poll with your visitors’ responses. You can get creative here and let your site visitors know you are listening. They will appreciate that. On that note you could add a testamonial section as well. You can get mini polls for your site as well as other free content such as photo albums, Daily Cartoons, Calenders, We Journals, scripts and Vote Casters at bravenet.com. You can also add a Headline News Feed to your site. The advantage of this is that it is constantly updated for you by the feed provider so you have a constant source of fresh content you do not have to work for. You just add a strip of html code for your site and this type of content will look natural on most home business websites. The only disadvantage is you do not have any control over this content. There are a number of sites which will provide you with a news feed, bravenet is one of them. |