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A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox

When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers — all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.

2) Start a web log (blog)

Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3) Carry out polls or surveys

Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games

Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.

5) Update frequently with fresh content

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!

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E-books are completely and utterly addicting. Whether free or paid for, these information products are rapidly becoming the most popular way to glean information online. With instant downloads and online payment processing, it is extremely easy to buy e-books on nearly any topic you can dream of, and have it within moments to read right there on your computer. While very handy technology, it does create a bit of a chaos on your computer!

The trick is to start off organized, creating e-books folders as you go. If you already have a big mess on your hands, hang on and we will deal with that in a moment!

First of all, create a folder on your main drive called “E-books”. This is your basic area to store all your e-book downloads. Think of it as a library . . . by clicking on this folder, you walk through the front doors of your e-book library. But in a real life library, you have categorized areas, everything is divided up by topic and that is what you need to do on your computer as well.

There is no need to create any folders inside your main E-books area just yet. Once you start downloading, you will want to begin adding categories that are relevant to your downloads. This differs for each person, so there is no way to tell you exactly what folders you will need to create. However, for example, if you download e-books on ecommerce, you would create a folder for this, perhaps titled “E-biz”. If you tend to download dozens of ecommerce e-books, you will need to create more specific folders such as “Traffic Building”, “Web Design”, “Payment Options”, and “SEO Techniques”, just to give a few examples.

Most e-books come with strange, rather indecipherable file names like “rneagle0248.doc”. This is of no help at all to you when you are looking through your virtual library, so the first thing you need to do when you save an e-book to its place on your hard drive, is to change the name. The actual title of the book is usually best.

Now, for those of you who already have hundreds of downloaded e-books scattered around your hard drive, there is a solution. You need to go ahead with setting up an E-books file as well, if you don’t already have one. Now, set up several folders for the most common categories that you are aware of, you can always add more if you come across another category.

Since most of your e-books will be saved under their original names, you will probably have to open most of them in order to figure out which category to put them under. This can take a while, so set aside a Saturday afternoon or a series of evenings to take on this task. Rename each book and file it correctly as you go. Your main pile of e-books should steadily diminish this way until you finally have everything neatly organized.

It is best if you can start off keeping your e-books organized, but even if you do it later on, the main thing is to always save your files with new names to the right file folder. This will keep your virtual library in order and you will be able to find your e-books in moments.

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First create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive, when you name it hold down “Alt” and press “0160″. This will create an invisible space so it will apper as if it has no name.

Then right click in and select “Properties”, select the tab “custimize” and select “change icon”. Scroll along and you should a few blank spaces. Click on any one and click ok when you hav saved the settings. The folder will be invisible to hide all your personal files.

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