Reaching the Favorites Menu

To make your visitors revisit your site on a regular basis, the best way is to make them add your site to their favorites list. Users save the sites that they want to visit again in their system's favorites menu. Being added to the favorites menu is equivalent to getting an ad in the browser's menu, that too for free.

Make it Easy
The addition of a website to the favorite menu option is hidden and thus generally forgotten by most of the users. However, if you place a link for the same, many more people will add your site to their favorite menu. Even if they don't use the link, it reminds them of the favorites function in their browser's menu. Thus, the chances of your site being added increase.

Pay Attention to the Title
It is also important that the name and purpose of your site is evident in your title, so that people can find it easily when they look through their favorites list. It should not be too long, but self-sufficient in itself.

Tracking visitors
Tracking the location of the visitor who visits your site using the favorites menu is a difficult task. To do this, you would need to send the visitors to a special address such as www.example.com/bookmark. This is not a foolproof method as most of the visitors will not use your link to reach it.

Promise Updates
The most important thing is to offer a reason for the visitors to revisit your site. One of the good way to do it is to clearly mention how often the site is updated. This can be done either by writing on top of the page 'updated weekly' or writing the date of last updation.

Being their Homepage
One step further after getting your site added to the favorites menu is to ask users to make your website their homepage. Your website would load automatically every time the user opens their browser. Having your site as a user's homepage, even for a short time, makes them see your website for a large number of times.

To get people to set your site as their homepage, you have to offer them a link for the same. But in order to make them set your site as homepage, you will need to have things on your site that people would want on their homepage. Things such as local weather or a search box to search the web with the use of a  popular search engine is a good idea.

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