If you want to make your website popular in a short span of time offering free downloads can get you there. Almost everybody, however rich loves to get something for nothing, and downloading is as old as the Internet itself. Free downloads are one thing which most of the users cannot resist.
Screensavers and Wallpapers- An ideal thing to offer as a download: it's popular and also easy to offer as it takes up very less space. However, the most popular kinds of wallpaper (stars and cars) show characters and images that you are not suppose to show (license issue), but, still you can create amazing wallpapers using geometric shapes and figures and interesting colors. You can use PhotoShop to create newer and original wallpapers. Also, be sure to probide the wallpapers in various screen sizes.
Screensavers are harder to produce than wallpapers, but they have the advantage that the user is likely to spend longer looking at them. If you can create them using Flash, you should have a relatively easy time.
Demos and Trailers- Demo versions of Softwares and Games and movie-trailers are very popular downloads on the web, with literally millions of people searching for the latest ones every day. And since they help in marketing the products for the companies that produce them, they're typically freely redistributable by anyone who has the bandwidth and the inclination.
The important thing to keep in mind here is the bandwidth limitation. Realistically, the only way to earn on high-bandwidth items is to use the queue ruse- force people who want to download to wait in a queue for a certain period of time, and offer them a button that lets them download instantly for a relatively small amount of money. You'd be surprised just how many people will click that button – the cost of a gigabyte of bandwidth will easily repay itself five times over.
The queue approach will, however, have the effect of reducing your site's popularity, as most of the people will just leave instead of waiting or paying. This is the irony of free downloads: offering them for free will get you thousands of clicks, but you'll be losing money on it because of the bandwidth costs. Now, you need to decide what you should do. Consider offering free downloads as a form of advertising for your website. One way you can keep your costs lower is you offer limited number of items for download at a time and keep on changing the products regularly. This way, the users will get newer free downloads on a regular basis and you’ll not have to spent too much on bandwidth cost too as you replace the older downloads with newer downloads. This will also generate re-visits to your sites.
Before you read more on web designing, think whether or not you need a website. You might be thinking that building a website and then the SEO behind it requires too much of effort for little gain. You might even be thinking that you do not have a business which requires a website. But before you come to any conclusion, let me give you some advantages of having a website. The biggest advantage or the plus point which works in favor of going for a website is it doesn’t cost much to create one. The bandwidth rates have come down tremendously; domain name registration is also quite cheaper and now, you no longer have to spend a lot on design. There are lots of free software available which can help you in creating a wonderful looking website. So why don’t you try one-maybe just for the fun and in the way also see some of the advantages a website provides to you.
Let’s see some other major advantages of having a website.
Website gives you a world-wide presence- It’s only a website which can give you a world wide presence at such low cost. It doesn’t matter whether you are far away or just near-by to your customer-he can reach you through your website from anywhere at no extra cost. You can provide all the information, details and specifications about your product on your website and all your potential customers can reach you. Reaching out to the world can never be that easy.
Earn from your website- There are thousands of people who completely depend on the earnings from their website. There’s so much money on the net that anyone with a desire to earn can do so. With a little effort and dedication on your part, you can instantly start earning from your site. Also, doing business is much easier through a website because of its omni-presence nature. With the advent of online payment gateways and credit cards you can sell your products without even meeting your customers. Business on the net also eliminates a host of extra operational costs.
Website makes information sharing that much easier- Sharing information with your friends/potential clients/public cannot get easier than this. You can post your product specifications, update it later if you want to and your target customers can see it from anywhere- can advertising for your products be cheaper than this?
A perfect gateway to your private world- Through a website/blog you can connect with so many people at once. You can put your views about a particular topic and start a discussion on it with a person sitting in the other corner of the world!
These are just few of the advantages of having a personal website on the net. I can just go on and on on the advantages of having a website. Remember, once you have created a website it’ll be there forever. You need update your website again and again, things once written are there for everybody- they can download it or bookmark it and save it forever. You would never know who might be accessing your website or how your website might be of help to someone even long after you having created it.
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