Please advise me on increasing the traffic...

[faedia]

Firstly I'd better have some interactive platform on my site, like a forum, right?

But what content would attract people effectively?People told me to do what Im interested in but my field is languages research--this attracts very few people,

The site need to be designed to have a good-looking interface and layout but Im too much a newbie in those designing yet.Is there any way out with something I could create a website easily,such as...templates? Are templates a good way for me?

Besides SEO, are there other ways to make a site easiler to be found and get more and more people to visit each day?

Please just give any suggestions you consider useful.

Thank you in advance!

[PoonDoggy]

I think this belongs in the WebMastering and Programming Category?

[compjason]

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Originally Posted by faedia

Firstly I'd better have some interactive platform on my site, like a forum, right?

But what content would attract people effectively?People told me to do what Im interested in but my field is languages research--this attracts very few people,

The site need to be designed to have a good-looking interface and layout but Im too much a newbie in those designing yet.Is there any way out with something I could create a website easily,such as...templates? Are templates a good way for me?

Besides SEO, are there other ways to make a site easiler to be found and get more and more people to visit each day?

Please just give any suggestions you consider useful.

Thank you in advance!

The best thing to do is write articles on your subject and submit them to places like Ezinearticles.com where people can use them in their ezines. There is a category for about everything.

If you can't design well enough yet then templates are the way to go. They are free and you don't need much experience to use them. My site, www.compjason.com has some and other sites like www.layouts4free.com and www.free-web-designs.com have good ones.

Another way to get traffic is to exchange links with other sites that relate to yours. BE CAREFUL IN WHO YOU EXCHANGE LINKS WITH!!! Ony exchange with sites that directly link to yours and you will get some more traffic. Also, most people hate sites that have a bunch of exchanged links so don't go overboard on that.