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After “seeding” your website with relevant, useful information it is important to continue your data growth through continuous feeding. In this context, feeding means three things:

1. Give users the chance to feed your information for you. If you have a blog, turn on comments. If your website sells books, give your customers a way to add their reviews. Wikis in particular make feeding particularly easy since virtually anyone can add to articles. Let your website users do some of the watering and feeding for you and your data ranch will grow by leaps and bounds.

2. Periodically review your data for accuracy and relevance. Sometimes data may begin to wither due to the passage of time. If it’s out of date, update it or add relevant caveats.

3. Find new ways to use your data. Your data can often times fuel itself by adding just a little interactivity to your website. Allowing users to create lists, for example, organizes your data and generates additional pages in the search engines. Multiply your existing data by presenting it in new and useful ways.

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