Helping People Help Them Selves.

The more details the better. When you ad content to your website , make sure it tells clients what to do in terms of a process, like starting a business or giving the visitor access to more leads to get additional information. Three ways you can do this include :

Adding Chat

Adding a chat room or chat forum can be done with any number of chat widgets or software, some software is free like that you can find at widgetbox and other software can be had for a small investment. If you are running a website for the tree house or a small school or community a free piece of software may do the trick, but If you are running a for profit website and are serious about keeping visitors coming back to your website then invest in your websites future, buy a piece of software or service that will place a quality chat room or chat forum experience on your web site for the long term.

Do not be taken in by free offers of chat services, some may be good , many start free for the simple version while the premium version costs a few bucks. In the end FREE can get to be VERY expensive!

Free chat rooms or chat forum soft ware may not be updated or supported by the developer, the company that made the software could go out of business where as the firm that makes for profit software for chat rooms has an incentive to support and maintain their product. Adding a chat forum or some other type of conversation medium encourage people to come and return on a regular basis to your website. go to the web and type in "chat forum software" for options.

Articles

Adding Articles can also bring clients back on a regular basis, especially if the content is updated regularly.
Adsense articles or articles from article databases around the internet can provide you with much of the content you may need on a wide variety of subjects. Also you can invite people to send you their work to be posted on you website or Blog. One way to have articles added to your website is to join Scribd.com. From their website you can have file embedded in your website.

Adding Classified Ad Services

Classified ad site are not just places for spamer's, they are big business. Some software for these services offer picture and video display abilities and options to make the site cost per ad along side free ads. You can create a general, buy-sell site or a niche site covering only one topic like parts for antique cars for example.

It is Possible to have a great success on your main website by a classified section to it. Such a section could grow and become so popular as to become the primary money maker of your website. Remember, Craigslist started as a community website and a non profit one at that and now earn around 10 million dollars a year or more.

Again we come to the issue of free vs paid services, some classified ad program are very expensive but add enormous value to your website or can function as a stand alone site. Free services such as Zikbay.com or the free version of Almond Classifeds might suit your needs. Other companies like Bravenet can offer classifeds and other services like message forums, guests books, photo albums and more for your site for free also.