Creating self-building sites

[Andy]

A good strategy to adopt when creating a web site is thinking of ways that you can get your visitors to build your site content for you.

I do this for example with a classified Ads site. Each Ad is created by a visitor to the site and their content is used to produce new web pages with optimized urls, title tags. Then I insert Ads on the pages to generate revenue.

For my next project, it will be similar but focused on one niche of online Ads (residential property). It will also be regionally specific so this means that I can build a community at the site. To do this I will add a forum and focus the topics on buying and selling property and living issues in the area that the site is covering. This way the site visitors will build content pages in the forum.

I anticipate a challenge in preventing people bypassing the paid listings and advertising their property in the forum, so I will have to police this. Hopefully, I will get some keen forum participants that will want to become moderators. Then, the site could be self-sustaining.

[Queen Bee]

Informative post, Andy.

[Andy]

Informative post, Andy.

Thanks, you can only write so much content yourself, so if you can in some way encourage site visitors to contribute content, it is a good thing.

With classified Ads, people tend to post very brief Ads so it is a problem for the inner pages but it helps the home page.