Hi all friends, We made a site. It is simple to use, it is %100 original. It is site of recipe, cooking. Ok, we don't have so much traffic because of that we can't earn so much money from adsense ( for now , i don't have any idea to earn great money either) But my question is different. Our visiters often don't stay on our site. I think, they find our pages from google and they take recipes and they leave. Do you have any idea to make them stay longer in our site? I can't find solution for that. Thanks a lot friends.
Expand from a simple 2-3 paragraph recipe to 2-3 page cooking guide. Include pictures to take up page space of the steps, add "tip" boxes for little helpful tips. Having 1 topic span multiple pages, will lengthen user stay if they are after the recipe and you keep them engaged with the content in between (hence the pictures of the steps and tip boxes).
put yourself in your visitor's shoes. what you would do when you visit such a site? visitors dont visit a site to click on ads, they visit a site to find what they are looking for and then leave. your site has to offer them something for them to stay longer. its hard to say what you need to do without looking at your site. but think of redesigning, adding more content, healthy food/recipe related articles, new ad placement are just some ideas
make interactive use pictures/videos show relative recipes at the side of the page allow subscribe to recipes visit other related site and see that they have and you don't we would help you if you show your site.
I'm one of those surfers who searches for recipes and after getting what I'm looking for leaves the site. Here is what I've found makes me stay around longer: - allowing feedback comments on the recipes. As a recipe seeker it's a great value to see how the recipe works for other people. Sometimes I even go back an add my own comments. - having demo videos or detailed tutorials. Those make me stay on the site longer, and bookmark it if it seems like a useful reference. Have a YouTube channel related to your site. - make sure you have original recipes, not just recipes scraped from other parts of the web. Nothing turns me off more than seeing the same recipe that I found on a dozen other sites. - all those things sahandy suggested: show related recipes - or other recipes that would compliment the recipe I'm looking at, allow people to subscribe to get updated when you add new recipes or if new comments are added on a specific recipe. - add related content - suggested menus, how to put together holiday meals or food-related gifts, cookbook reviews, etc. - consider focusing on one type of cuisine, and make your site a related portal - tell people where to buy specialized ingredients or cooking tools (as an affiliate perhaps?), give a little history or culture, describe the more "exotic" ingredients, suggest restaurants where people can try the cuisine, etc. Add a forum where people can ask questions. Check out this site that is focused on a specific cuisine - Indian Vegetarian: http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/ It's a great portal for Indian cooking and has excellent demo videos. And here is a more general site: http://www.epicurious.com/ I wouldn't expect to have your site just like that, since Epicurious is backed by big bucks, but it will give you ideas And once your site is just the way you like it, be sure you submit the link to FoodieView, which is a recipe search engine: http://www.foodieview.com/contact.jsp
Man, i think you should immediately change your design. It looks not good. First of all, black is not good choice for that kind of site and so on... Try to make your site's design better.
- it is allowed feedback comments on the recipes. But i don't have great traffics , so i can't have comments. - we don't have any videos. Maybe we should open one page for videos. -All recipes are %100 original. Of course some of them classic but all of them in our way. "- all those things sahandy suggested: show related recipes - or other recipes that would compliment the recipe I'm looking at, allow people to subscribe to get updated when you add new recipes or if new comments are added on a specific recipe.">>> how can i do that? -cookboow review is great idea, thanks. -we tell people where they can find products. And we often give tips too. Thanks a lot.
If your site is running on the latest version of Wordpress, you can automatically generate RSS feeds for each category. If you aren't using Wordpress, I'm not sure how you do that. Another option is to collect emails for a mailing list, and send out a notice every time your site is updated. As for traffic, you should definitely submit your site to the Foodieview.com recipe search engine. Otherwise there are lots of non-specialized traffic building techniques - leave relevant comments on related blogs (and link your site as allowed), join related forums and link your site in your sig, submit your site to directories, set up a fan page on Facebook, etc etc.