I’ve been making plans for all my projects.
Options :-
- Hmmm, improve the speed and functionality of the site I guess. Add extra dynamic pages.
- I guess I could add affiliate buy links etc, but this will require a lot of on going admin, requesting and being approved etc.
Of course I could share the data and use it in a second site.
Maybe I’ve missed or forgotten something big ?
Thoughts?
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Thinking about value-added content for shareware sites –
without requiring a large time commitment to create the
content – is a thought that’s been occupying me for a
while.
I have thought of the affiliate route myself as you know
but I haven’t found an affiliate scheme that is as easy to
use as I expect so far.
When I first setup softtester, I included a review feature, which gaves authors a gold placement at the top of the listings, but no one ever used it expect me and a few friends.
The point being, getting authors to do anything wouldn’t work as a strategy.
Having said that there are those extra parts in the pad file shown in robosoft, press releases if I remember rightly, maybe we could tap into those. Having said that, they aren’t going to be unique
content.
Lately on my main shareware site, I’ve been looking at
ways of increasing the internal links between pages. I’ve
done this is a number of ways for the program details
pages and for keyword list pages. It’s a bit early to say
but it does seem to be having a small improvement on
the number of page views per day. You could try some
of these out on softtester.
I do now publish press releases but this hasn’t turned out
to be as easy as it first appeared and I still have some
code to write to manage submissions properly.
At the moment I tend just to delete most press release
submissions. The problem has turned out to be that most
press releases seem to be a duplicate of authors 2000
character PAD description. Also, because most press
releases are associated with PAD submissions, the same
press releases get submitted time and again, e.g. on
v2.1.0, v2.1.1 of a program release, and so on. You
need code to detect updates to existing releases,
releases with the same title and description etc., to
prevent loads of duplicates. There also is a tendency for
people to include HTML formatting in press releases,
e.g. b tags. You can of course automatically treat
these as plain text bu then the press release doesn’t look
right. Authors also tend to repeat their contact details in
the summary and main description which means that the
releases need to be edited manually before being
accepted. Essentially, you need code to manage press
release submissions in a similar way to PAD submissions.
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