General Website Tips

How I Attracted Visitors in the Past

I know what I’m going to tell you is almost like a waste of time and space, but for purposes of attracting visitors just for the heck, it will work. However, you might have a mission of just concentrating on your own information, so this would be a useless suggestion. I can’t even say that this is a suggestion.

This is useless for companies doing business, but if you are just a hobbyist, or just learning to code, then this is a good way to practice.

The CIA produces an annual profile of countries. It’s called The World Factbook, and it’s free. I’ve seen the same information published like an informative, encyclopedia type of a book, but I’m sure the information was free to be had anyway. Some publisher simply put everything together and sold it in the bargain bin. I could be wrong.

Copy and paste each country, tab the information correctly, do whatever you have to do, and get everything to a table in a MySQL database.

Then design a single page that would show a single country, and use that as a template. Copy and rename the file to produce different countries, and use PHP to dip into the database.

So there you go! You will have more than 180 pages of more than 180 countries and continents and whatever else, which provide information to the public. Make a site map or another page listing all of the countries in one place.

Add some ads which might make you some money!

Let’s say you have 5 pages of your interest, and you’re not sure if anyone is going to come visit your 5-page information. Now, you will have more than 180 pages of countries, and these visitors just might click through your other 5 pages.

Consider the exercise as like producing billboards on a highway. Some people look, some people don’t. It’s a numbers game, plus it’s an excuse to practice what you know.

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