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Actual for You - Top 5 Web Design Pet Peeves
Many of the well known affiliate marketing gurus would gladly have you pay hundreds of dollars for worthless information (as some of you have).Now, normally after the first few pages in an affiliate marketing e-book you can basically decide whether it was a waste of time or if it is worth reading.Never in all my years of affiliate marketing have I seen an affiliate marketing informational product that actually gives you an exact blue print to what you need to do to become successful in affiliate marketing. Affiliate ProjectX contains no fluff. Affiliate ProjectX contains the exact steps needed to create massive income using affiliate progra
To keep your visitors and the search engines happy, a web site requires your ongoing attention. Outdated information sends a message to your visitor that you are not taking care of business. They can easily assume that you also will not take care of them as a customer.
Oh, and do not even get me started on the kind of impression you will make with bad grammar and typos; enough said.<
Dropshipping has rapidly become one of the easiest ways to sell products on the internet without the need for capital, there are literally thousands of sites out there that pertain to be dropshippers and it can be a minefield for those looking to get into dropshipping in order to make some money. I have been using dropshipping for a number of years now and thought that I would document a few of my thoughts and questions that come to mind when I consider a new dropshipper arrangement.Some questions you may wish to ask are:1. Is the dropshipping product list static?What I mean by this is ‘are the products available going to change', th
What has not changed, however, is bad web page design.
As a small business owner, it is usually wise to hand over the design of your web site to an expert. After all, your time and energy is best spent attracting and providing service to your clients.
However, the more you know about web design, the more you can guide your web designer towards an end result that fits your needs.
This is YOUR web site, and is the online face of your business. Do not let your web designer make these mistakes on your site – please.
My Top 5 Web Design Pet Peeves:
5. Page Overboard
Your web designer might enjoy showing off his or her mastery of the latest techniques, but that does not mean they belong on your site.
Going overboard by adding animation or a "splash page" not only adds to the page loading time, but it can really irritate visitors who just want to see the information they came for.
Irritated visitors equal lost revenue and lost opportunities, so keep your web site clean, simple and easy to navigate.
4. Irrelevant Content
Content Is King when designing your website, and is equally important to both of the major groups who will determine the success of your web site.
The first group is your web site visitors. They have come in search of specific, current and relevant information, and they want it now. If they cannot find it, then poof, they are gone!
The second group is the search engines. If the search engines find relevant information on your site, then they will pass along your site as a source of that information.
To keep your visitors and the search engines happy, a web site requires your ongoing attention. Outdated information sends a message to your visitor that you are not taking care of business. They can easily assume that you also will not take care of them as a customer.
Oh, and do not even get me started on the kind of impression you will make with bad grammar and typos; enough said. Improving your Customer and Service Support
A lot if not most companies, have two support operations, a customer support and a service support operation. Now days most all companies also use an elaborate telephone screening process for the incoming calls. I would like to suggest an alternative way to improve the quality of the support offered to your customers.First of all try to have the call answered as soon as possible by a live person. This would be a small group, depending upon the size of your company, that would be able to answer most of the simple questions about products, obtain the name of the person calling and redirect the more in- depth questions to the appropriate person.
However, the more you know about web design, the more you can guide your web designer towards an end result that fits your needs.
This is YOUR web site, and is the online face of your business. Do not let your web designer make these mistakes on your site – please.
My Top 5 Web Design Pet Peeves:
5. Page Overboard
Your web designer might enjoy showing off his or her mastery of the latest techniques, but that does not mean they belong on your site.
Going overboard by adding animation or a "splash page" not only adds to the page loading time, but it can really irritate visitors who just want to see the information they came for.
Irritated visitors equal lost revenue and lost opportunities, so keep your web site clean, simple and easy to navigate.
4. Irrelevant Content
Content Is King when designing your website, and is equally important to both of the major groups who will determine the success of your web site.
The first group is your web site visitors. They have come in search of specific, current and relevant information, and they want it now. If they cannot find it, then poof, they are gone!
The second group is the search engines. If the search engines find relevant information on your site, then they will pass along your site as a source of that information.
To keep your visitors and the search engines happy, a web site requires your ongoing attention. Outdated information sends a message to your visitor that you are not taking care of business. They can easily assume that you also will not take care of them as a customer.
Oh, and do not even get me started on the kind of impression you will make with bad grammar and typos; enough said.<
Anchor text is the name for the text that appears on a specific link that leads to a website. For example Affiliate Marketing is a link with the anchor text Affiliate MarketingHaving anchor text like this pointing back to your website will increase your positioning in search engines for the term Make Money Online. Now bearing in mind, that term is going to be pretty competitive with enough work it would be possible for you to slowly creep your way up to the top.So what's the best way to get incoming links with the Anchor Text that you want?Submitting links to Directories is a good start, this allows you to build a link structure with
Going overboard by adding animation or a "splash page" not only adds to the page loading time, but it can really irritate visitors who just want to see the information they came for.
Irritated visitors equal lost revenue and lost opportunities, so keep your web site clean, simple and easy to navigate.
4. Irrelevant Content
Content Is King when designing your website, and is equally important to both of the major groups who will determine the success of your web site.
The first group is your web site visitors. They have come in search of specific, current and relevant information, and they want it now. If they cannot find it, then poof, they are gone!
The second group is the search engines. If the search engines find relevant information on your site, then they will pass along your site as a source of that information.
To keep your visitors and the search engines happy, a web site requires your ongoing attention. Outdated information sends a message to your visitor that you are not taking care of business. They can easily assume that you also will not take care of them as a customer.
Oh, and do not even get me started on the kind of impression you will make with bad grammar and typos; enough said.<
It is not easy to learn how to write an email campaign and this is where most newbies to internet marketing fall down. There are certain techniques that have to be learned, and never try to run a campaign without an autoresponder. In fact, an autoresponder is so important in internet marketing, that I am going to assume that everybody interested in learning about email campaigns has one.A targeted email campaign can generate sales for you that you would not have had without it. In addition to an autoresponder you need an emailing list, and one that has been generated by your own website provides significantly better results than a purchased li
Content Is King when designing your website, and is equally important to both of the major groups who will determine the success of your web site.
The first group is your web site visitors. They have come in search of specific, current and relevant information, and they want it now. If they cannot find it, then poof, they are gone!
The second group is the search engines. If the search engines find relevant information on your site, then they will pass along your site as a source of that information.
To keep your visitors and the search engines happy, a web site requires your ongoing attention. Outdated information sends a message to your visitor that you are not taking care of business. They can easily assume that you also will not take care of them as a customer.
Oh, and do not even get me started on the kind of impression you will make with bad grammar and typos; enough said.<
Every day thousands of people take the plunge and start their own home-based businesses, tired of working for “the Man”. They’ve done their research (hopefully) and taken all of the usual steps:Come up with their Business nameOutlined their business planSet Business Goals, etc.I’m not going into any of those aspects, because they all should have been taken care of.But starting a business can mean emptying your pockets, draining your bank account and maxing out your credit cards. Here is a way to save some money on the basic productivity software you need to help you keep your office in order and your software budget in
To keep your visitors and the search engines happy, a web site requires your ongoing attention. Outdated information sends a message to your visitor that you are not taking care of business. They can easily assume that you also will not take care of them as a customer.
Oh, and do not even get me started on the kind of impression you will make with bad grammar and typos; enough said.
3. Graphic Takeovers
Do not let your web site be taken hostage by your graphics. Whenever you introduce non-text elements to your web design, you reduce the accessibility of your pages, and this creates problems for visitors with special needs.
You may have visitors who are visually impaired and rely on screen readers, or who are still relying on dial-up connections (up to 30% of Internet users).
So, to make your web page dial-up friendly and accessible, limit the number of graphics, displaying only those that truly complement your page. Then, make the graphics web-ready by taking these four steps:
1. Compress the file to either JPG (for photos) or GIF (for icons, buttons, etc.) format.
2. Crop out any dead space.
3. Resave the image with a resolution of 72 dpi, which is the ideal resolution for web sites.
4. Add appropriate "alt" tags to all graphics so that screen readers can properly "read" the graphics, menus, buttons, and text.
2. Graphic Monstrosities
Having large graphics that slow down your page is bad enough. Blinking, scrolling, or animated text is even worse. But using fuzzy, distorted, or unprofessional graphics is the absolute worst offense you can commit on a web site.
This will immediately create the impression that your work is of a low quality – remember, your web site is the online face of your business.
Adding professional graphics does not have to be expensive. You can pick up web-ready photos at www.istockphoto.com for a buck!
1. And my NUMBER 1 WEB DESIGN PET PEEVE is -- Keyword Stuffing
There is a very disturbing and unethical web design trend occurring right now. Designers will "stuff" a site with keywords so that it is ident
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