Traffic Content Lesson #7 - 3 Ways to Leverage User Generated Content

User generated content is a new buzz phrase that's been getting
a lot of attention recently. Websites can take off in popularity
if they have great user generated content, without the creators
having to put much work into content creation.

What exactly is user generated content? How does it work? How do
you encourage user generated content? Let's take a look. User
generated content is any content that's generated by the user
base and not by content creators of the company.

High profile examples include Wikipedia and YouTube. The staff
at Wikipedia and YouTube don't spend all their time creating
entries or videos. Instead, their job is to make it easy for
other people to create content.

Other people do, and Wikipedia and YouTube benefit from it.
Lower profile examples include forums and blog comments. Again,
these aren't created by the site owner, but can still draw a lot
of search engine traffic.

So how does one encourage people to create more content?


1. Give Them Room to Express Something They Want to Express

It's very hard to create desire. Trying to get someone to want
something they don't already naturally want is very hard.

On the other hand, giving someone an avenue to talk about things
they already want to talk about can be a great shortcut to
amassing a ton of user generated content.

YouTube exemplifies this principle. YouTube didn't create the
desire for people to share videos, they just made that desire
possible through the internet.

What do your users already want to talk about that they're not
able to talk about yet?


2. Make Them Feel Like They're Part of Something

A sense of community and purpose can go a long way towards
inspiring content generation.

A forum, for example, often thrives when there's a sense of
people helping one another out. People are more inspired to post
their success stories and help other people out in their
hardships.

On the other hand, forums where there's animosity and lack of
community tend to die down over time.

Wikipedia also does this really well. People feel like they're
part of a larger purpose and that their time put into generating
content is for a good cause.


3. Make It Fun

Don't make it feel like work to generate content. Make it fun.

For example, when Gmail wanted to have users create a video for
them, they didn't make it sound like work.

Instead, they made it sound like a contest and made all the
descriptions of the video they wanted very bright. They got tons
of submissions and had a stellar video to use at the end of the
day.

If you're not employing user generated content as part of your
web strategy, you're missing out. The content generated can
bring a lot of traffic to your website with barely any
additional cost.


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