{"id":756,"date":"2013-03-14T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2017-08-06T15:46:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T19:46:45","slug":"how-can-multimedia-increase-your-web-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/how-can-multimedia-increase-your-web-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can Multimedia Increase Your Web Traffic?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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People are automatically drawn to interesting or beautiful photos, videos, and music. While most text looks largely the same and takes time to digest, multimedia<\/a> brings instant recognition and appeal to one’s senses. Multimedia is essential to some websites such as those of music artists and film studios<\/a>, but many others can also benefit. It often gives the viewer a far better sense of the author’s personality or the brand’s characteristics than any words can.<\/p>\n

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Besides these elements’ attractiveness in themselves, there are also Web promotion<\/a> factors. Multimedia gives the creator more opportunities to promote their works on specialized media-sharing<\/a> sites such as Flickr<\/a>, Youtube<\/a>, and the Last.fm<\/a> music site. Online media consumption has been continually growing. There’s even evidence that a relevant video can appear at the top of Google<\/a> searches more easily than a similar text-only website. All of these can effectively point the user to your main website hub, or vice-versa, enriching their experience and increasing your Web traffic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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