Running a successful website

Posted: July 3rd, 2010

You know as a user of a low profile website, such as this, you could be anywhere at anytime within the server and it's guaranteed that someone is watching what you do. Not like a stalker, more like a creationist overseeing what he or she has created, maintaining balance by being the law, and creating to please on accountability of the user-base. Dazik during any moment of the day could have anywhere from 20 to 800 people browsing, how do we do it? Everything in life can be simplified into the dream of 1 person, an "idea's man" so to think, Google is one of those and so is Microsoft.

The most important thing about being a web-developer of any sort is the ability to care about your users, most websites really don't care who you are or what you want, just the money you bring them, a good web admin will take the time to read every email and reply to every user that sends one. The first idea to a leading website is to know your user base, know the age and agenda of the general area of its users by watching what they use on your site, and what they like. You take this knowledge from watching to add to the sites content, if somebody really likes movies then you give them a search function to find more, they like it so much they tell their friends and net you even more users, this process repeats over and over and will end with a large user base.

The "carry yourself" rule, one of the biggest roles of every web admin is to interact with their users, if your running a forum you need to be active in it otherwise people will have no idea who you are and just see the site as a little void of the internet, so get in those discussions and talk with people, let them know about some aspects of your life, maybe even your real name, I've gotten feedback on many of my creations about how much of a team player I am from simply replying to people, helping them with their own problems and being an ear to talk to. A good example of an interactive social network where you can speak to owners and employee's is FunAdvice, the owner himself will answer your question if you ask him and he's running a 200,000 user website! So keep yourself in the loop with what your users are talking about, and be a part of the discussion.

At this point your probably wondering where you could possibly get the first users of your site from, well that's easy, tell your friends! Advertising really is not all that necessary as long as you have the content people are looking for, something addictive or something of major use, Dazik fits into the usage category by offering its members something you generally cannot find anywhere else, that alone is all the advertising Dazik needs to live on. To get started find other websites with some sort of tie to your own, a common factor. If your website is all about a video game, or a gaming console, then you want to find gamers to tell about how awesome your site is, tell them what they can do on your site that they probably cant anywhere else to drag them in, get them addicted and they will have friends coming in no time.

Now, on top of all that you also need to be prepared for Search Engine Optimization, SEO for short. The one thing you need to make sure of is that each page has its own meta such as description and keywords, even title. That way when search engines like Google or Yahoo come crawling your site everything will be organized and ready for them to index, Google is your friend use it to your advantage!