Making Your Website Interactive

If you have a website that does not sell or market products or services, then you may have designed your online portal solely for information, personal updates, or fun.

Generating traffic to sites like yours does not necessarily mean that you have to use traditional search engine optimisation techniques. The volume of traffic and the length of retention of interest depend on how your human visitors, not search engines, value your site. To increase volume and retain traffic, your website needs to be interesting. Thus, aside from great graphics and content, you need to make your site interactive with the following tips.

A simple way is to use polls and quizzes. Not only will these make your website more exciting, but these also make your visitors feel valued. That is because you are showing them that you are interested in their opinions. Just make sure you update your poll each week. Next, make your images and text interactive. Take full advantage of image maps and their benefits. You can also have someone animate the graphics for you. In addition, you can hyperlink anchor text to internal pages or other websites.

Another good suggestion is to include a game that can be played online. You have two choices: either spend money to hire a programmer to design a unique game or imbed a Flash game that is available in the Net. People would definitely stay in your website because it provides them with amusement.

Finally, add links that connect your social networking profile and blogs to your website. A great idea is to feed your updates to a sidebar on your homepage.