Tag: Distractions

Web Site Marketing: Discover 10 Sneaky Ways To Prolong Your Visitors Stay At Your Website

Posted on Jun.30, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

The longer your website visitors stay, the more they will get to know your business and perhaps buy from you.
So, below are 10 sneaky, web site marketing ways to keep them longer?
1. Offer a free ebook that’s published right on your web site. They would have to stay at your web site to read it.
2. Give your visitors a different free bonus for each link they click-through on your web site. Example: “If you click on this link you’ll get [...]


Why Search Engine Marketing Has A Passion for Web Site Usability

Posted on Jun.18, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Watching a recent football game, I imagined two very different teams: one called ??The Horders?? and the other, ??The Hunters??. In the game, it takes planning and skill to carry a football a few yards. There??s interference and distractions. Scantily clad dancing girls are screaming cheers nearby.
How different, I wonder, is this from finding something in search engines? You have ads on the sidelines and pages to push through while trying to get to your goal. If you happen to [...]


How to Google; or How to be Easily Distracted

Posted on May.30, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

I set out with the intention of writing a self improvement type article with an original temporary working title of ‘How To Overcome Fear’.
Being the sound marketing man that I am though, my first action was to research whether this was relevant to many peoples lives.
What followed was a mistake.
I had read recently about a ‘Google Suggest’ in Beta test mode (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1), and so I thought I would give it a whirl.
I should have known better – distractions on the [...]


One-Product Sales Sites: Avoid These Top Blunders

Posted on Apr.20, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

One product, one long web page: this kind of web site is
sometimes called a sales letter site or mini-site, and it
focuses on one and only one goal, as many sales of that one
product as possible. With a one-product sales site, no
distractions, no subsidiary goals, such as newsletter
signups, are allowed to interfere with that goal. So let’s
look at some common mistakes and omissions for a sales
letter site.
Your headline serves as the key point of orientation for
the reader and [...]


10 Nifty Ways to Prolong Your Visitors at Your Website

Posted on Apr.20, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Increasing the length of time a visitor is on your website will dramatically improve your conversion to sales. Use these ten points to check you are prolonging to stay of your visitors.
1. Offer a free ebook that’s published right on your web site. They would have to stay at your web site to read it.
2. Give your visitors a different free bonus for each link they click-through on your web site. Example: “If you click on this link you’ll [...]


Good Links: 7 guidelines how to improve usability

Posted on Apr.16, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

How you write and design your links is crucial to your visitors clicking them or not. Write them badly and they leave, write them well and they stay. Who knows, they might even do exactly that what you created your site for. Following are 7 guidelines how links should be written to improve the usability of your site.
Do it consistently
Visitors learn for example how a website marks the links or where the “related-content box” can be found. Consistently adhering [...]


Web Site Design – Focus, Focus, Focus

Posted on Apr.15, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

When creating a web site design, it is easy to fall into the trap of trying to be all things to all people. In reality, the key to a good web site design is focus, focus, focus.
We Dont Need No Stinkn Distractions
It happens ever few weeks or so. I am sitting in front of the computer contemplating the meaning of life, i.e., why my numbers arent being picked in the California lottery. A frustrated person calls and wants to know [...]


You Had Me At the Search Engine

Posted on Apr.11, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Youve likely heard of the movie, Jerry Maguire, with its famous line, You had me at hello. Jerry Maguire was luckier than web sites we find in search engines. Many web sites dont attract user devotion at the first word, let alone after scanning the home page.
How many times has this scenario happened to you? Youve performed a search in a search engine or directory, reviewed the results and found a page description that fits what you were looking for. [...]


Stop Sabotaging Your Sales

Posted on Apr.09, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Do your web pages, sales letters or personal presentations include subtle distractions that unnecessarily cause you to lose sales?
Sometimes prospective customers get distracted during the selling process by outside interruptions. You cannot control those. But many sales-killing distractions are caused by what you put in your web pages and other sales messages …or by what you say in your personal presentations.
Here are 3 unnecessary distractions you may be creating that sabotage your sales – and how you can avoid them:
1. [...]


Have Answers for These Questions Before Building a Website

Posted on Mar.27, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

Have Answers for These Questions Before Building a Website By
Suresh Babu
What is the purpose of the website? Whom this website is built
for? Who is the targeted audience? What is the demographic
target? What is the entry page? What is the exit page? Is your
website designed for each class of visitors? Small, Medium and
large who do you want to attract? How can you get them there? Do
you have a budget for Marketing? What kind of marketing will be
more effective? Who is going [...]