I physically observe people at a computer going through my website. I don't provide any verbal guidance, as I genuinely want to see how they do, if the navigation is confusing or clear, if they can easily navigate without having to scroll much. Music Resources and Spirituality and Alternative Healing. I've continued to expand those two sections the most during the past 4.5 years, adding new sites quite regularly and adding new subcategories and sections several times a year. Since I' ve had several dozen people inquire about purchasing prints of my digital art, I'll be adding that function sometime this year, too.
Some areas are definitely more popular than others.
I watch the trends on my site and on the Internet in general, making decisions about expanding specific sections based on the trends, patterns of traffic flow, email feedback, and my own intuition. Although people are generally looking for something specific and tend to stay within a particular category, there are some who float over into other categories, too. Since I integrated the domain names, all of the new clients I've more recently gotten have checked out my other domain names, too. Knowing that free graphics draws big traffic, I've utilized that to my advantage with starting a linkware music graphics area, for example. I base my decision in part on keywords being used, too.