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Now you may have some concerns that allowing anyone to add content and links to your site is inviting your competitors to steal your traffic. If your site has detailed reviews of products on your site, anyone who leaves your site to visit a competitor won't spend much time there before realizing that your site has useful, original content that they can't find anywhere else. If that doesn't put your mind at ease, though, there's nothing to stop you from including a disclaimer when someone submits a review. Explain in this disclaimer that direct references to your competitors will be removed to keep
reviews informative and to avoid marketing hype. You are
webmaster, after all.
You can draw even more traffic by allowing visitors to rate
usefulness of each review. Many reviewers will encourage people to visit your site so they can read and rate
review. More important than just being a gimmick to increase traffic, rating reviews allows you to sort them by quality and expose your average visitors to
best possible content first.
Promote it! Once you've got
code in place, it's important to publicize this new feature of your website. If you have experience or know someone with experience writing press releases, you may be able to garner attention from news and niche media. Another highly effective form of publicity is to mention
new feature above
fold on
main page of your site.
If you have a newsletter, promote
review process in your next issue. In fact, as you begin to accumulate reviews, they can serve as great additional content for your newsletter. Simply include
best reviews in each issue. As with
reviews on your website, you are providing valuable content for your audience, giving your reviewer great exposure, and saving time for yourself. It's a win-win-win situation.

Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Clay Mabbitt. Clay Mabbitt writes articles about online income opportunities. He is the founder of a community of Internet entrepreneurs sharing knowledge and experience at http://www.affiliatescreen.com