Get visitors to promote your site for you!
One of the most powerful and time-tested methods of advertising is word of mouth… get customers to recommend your business to others and new customers will result. For online businesses, the equivalent of word of mouth recommendations would be the sharing of web site links (URL addresses), and the easier you can make it for your site’s visitors to share your URL address with others, the better. For this very purpose, your WebSpawner web site account includes an “E-mail a Friend” feature which you can activate to allow your site’s visitors to help promote your web site by sharing your address link. With today’s post we’ll go over how you can add this feature to your site in just minutes.
First, login to your Enhanced WebSpawner account (or if you don’t have one yet, you can create a WebSpawner web site in minutes… see this article for easy to follow instructions).
After you have logged in (or have completed creation of your new web site account), you should see the WebSpawner Member Menu for your account. Select your Start page (marked with an asterisk) under Step 1 and then click the Modify button under Step 2, as shown below:
Now you’ll be looking at the Modification form for your web page. Scroll down in the form until you see the E-mail a Friend step, and click the Yes button as shown:
Next, complete the Modification process by clicking the Continue button at the bottom of the Modification form, and then click the I Like It button at the test page preview. After completing these easy steps, your Enhanced web site will contain an “E-mail this page to a friend” link like this example:
That’s all there is to it… the color of the link on your web site will depend on the color selections you have already made, and will be color-coordinated to match.
When a viewer of your web site clicks the “E-mail this page to a friend” link they will see a short form like the one following below… the viewer can complete the form with his or her e-mail address, a friend’s e-mail address, and a personal message before sending the announcement.
After the viewer sends the announcement, the viewer’s friend will receive an e-mail message like the sample below, containing a clickable link to your web site:
In this manner, viewers who find your web site’s content worthy of sharing with friends can quickly and easily do just that, helping to promote your web site for you. While this will probably not generate as much traffic for you as getting your web site listed in search engines, referrals from friends can bring your site additional traffic at absolutely no cost of time or money to you.