Do you need a guestbook on the website?

Vitali Lutz
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Although guestbooks used to be something special and were used by many visitors, they were of limited use. Many guests used the guestbook for obtuse comments or advertising, and it was not set up for that.

It is questionable whether a guestbook is useful for a website, even if it is nice when visitors write something in the guestbook. However, there are some reasons why a guestbook can even be useful:

  • Feedbackif something on a website doesn't work properly or a visitor doesn't like something, he writes his criticism in the guestbook.
  • More visitorsif the website is small, a guestbook can help to increase visibility because the content in the guestbook is created by the users and can be found by search engines.
  • Ideasif you look at the entries in the guestbook, you will notice that some interesting ideas appear among the entries that you would not have thought of otherwise.
  • Communicationof course, a website guestbook allows you to communicate with visitors and possibly build a business relationship.

So is a guestbook on a website useful or not? In most cases, a guestbook on the website is not necessary in the following cases:

  1. There is already a contact form on the website, which is easy to use without registration.
  2. There is a comment function on the website, so visitors can comment without registering.
  3. One is not interested in the opinions of its visitors and already knows the mission of the site according to a plan.

Every website owner has to decide for himself if a guestbook is useful for the visitors or not. Surely it is worth a try, but in many cases you will find out later that the guestbook either remains empty or is used by spammers promoting products or other websites.

Vitali Lutz

About Vitali Lutz

Vitali Lutz is a versatile author on all aspects of business and technology. Thanks to his ability to adapt to a wide range of topics and his great thirst for knowledge, he writes about anything that interests him.

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