I was looking around at some websites to see what things I liked and disliked about them. There is no doubt that there are things that attract people and there are things that totally turn people off.

I have made a list of 13 tips that can help make your website more successful. Most of them are simple but quite effective at making your site more user friendly.

1. Make your site simple - With all of bells and whistles available, too many people are trying to see how impressive they can make their websites. They may be attractive but unless your goal is to win a contest for best site, impressing people with glitter will not make sales.

2. Make sure your site loads quickly - You do not have long to grab your customer's attention. Make sure that you at least get a fair shot at grabbing his attention. If your site takes too long to load, you will lose a lot of potential customers without even giving your site a chance.

3. Don't have too many items on one page - You do not want to confuse your visitors. You want to make sure that they understand th purpose of your site. Too many items on one page can make this difficult for some. Don't take chance. Make all of your pages simple.

4. Make sure every page lings to home page - It is much easier for your visitors to navigate if all of your pages link back to home page. You will not lose as many potential customers if you make your site easier to navigate.

5. Get your own domain name - Free servers are great for some things but trying to gain credibility in a business is not one of them. It is well worth price to get your own domain.

6. Make sure your hosting service offers full support - You want your service to have CGI access and offer secure ordering. This is a place that you don't want to go for cheap. Make sure your service offers things you need before you choose and save a lot of headaches down road.

There are many new traffic exchange sites that have popped up in last few months. I personally use quite a few of them and generate an average of 200 hits a day from them.

It is not something that happens overnight but if you start signing up some people in a few of these programs, you will reap benefits of your effort.

There are many to choose from and for those of you who use them, I am sure you have your favorites. There are some that will provide you with a lot of hits but what you are looking for is quality hits. You are looking for ones that actually bring you traffic that will respond to whatever it is you are offering.

I personally also like to use a rotator service to send my traffic to different sites that I have. There are free rotators out there, though most that I have used are not of quality of eBiz Rotator. You can join free and rotate three sites, but I personally use upgraded service that costs $48 for six months. For eight dollars a month, you can not only rotate up to 10 sites, you can also advertise another ten on your portfolio page. They also offer an affiliate program and building a downline in it has been quite easy.

By rotating your sites, you can build a nice downline in several programs and still advertise your products and website as well. This system works very well to start building traffic. Here is my eBiz Rotator site in case you would like to check it out. http://www.ebizrotator.com/goto/RJ1550.htm