As well as all of the other websites that we are commissioned to make (currently about 30 or so, some of which can be viewed here) Voodoochilli Design has four company sites. This little blog site, our new art blog site, the company site itself and Voodoochilli.net. We also have a few other blog sites, but the subject matter isn’t related to art or design in anyway. Voodoochilli.net gets more traffic daily than the others get in a month so it’s nice to share a bit of that traffic with the other sites.
The combined traffic is quite substantial so as a way of easily allowing this sharing, I have created this simple portal page. In time I will add more sites as we create them. The little icon (which probably needs improving) that links to the portal is stored in one place only, so that when it needs to be changed it will be updated across all sites.
Another little trick we do, as do many other web design companies is to place a link at the bottom of sites that we create for a client. If someone views one of our clients sites and likes it, they may be interested in commissioning us. Sadly we can’t do this on every site as some of them are private or we have been sub-commissioned through another design company to develop the site.
Another idea would be to use a 404 page and redirect to the portal, so that if someone mistypes a URL they will get directed. I am not too keen on that idea as I believe it could easily confuse people.
I think it’s very important to have your own projects running on the backburner. This helps you to keep busy and improves your personal self development. The other advantage is that these projects can work for you by generating traffic and showcasing your work.
I would be very interested in other people’s ideas on sharing traffic between sites.
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