initial content? Any good advice?

[punisa]

Hello friends,
I have a little bit of trouble regrading content, especially the "initial" content.
What do I mean by that .. I usually have an idea for creating a page, but don't know how to fill it with content : )

Sure, when I create an article based page I need to write those myself. But what about a website that is supposed to function as:
- a yellow pages ads
- an auction site
- a real estate search
- a job posting place

How do I go about those? Say I create a site where companies can look for employees, should I contact a company and say: "you can post your job opportunities on our site for free. Yeah, nobody has done it yet, but you can be the first !"

I had terrible experience in doing this, nobody wants to even bother with something that is not yet acknowledged as a good site.

How do internet forums pick up? Does the original creator make a dozen of phony nicknames and rant about stuff with himself until others catch up?
I can see this happening in a company where you can assign people to it,l but what about us lone coders? : D

Any advice would be good, cause I get really discouraged lately simply because I have doubts I'll be able to get my projects "out" there.
And I love building new stuff :)

[piatkow]

Does the original creator make a dozen of phony nicknames and rant about stuff with himself until others catch up?

Sometimes.

[netbizseo]

Do the off page optimisation. It helps in bringing visitors.

[lam12]

Yes! You can go ahead and start to talk to your self for some time till people catch up. Try Google Adsense it helps a lot. Regarding content creation, try SEO optimized content. For a directory site you may want to have a bit of keyword enriched content on home and on about us page.

[edited by: bill at 7:30 am (utc) on Nov. 12, 2009]
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