Having excessive links in your navigational menu also confuse visitors. If your average visitor spends just 15 minutes at your site, you want them to go to your most important pages. Avoid fanciful navigational menus that load too slowly.

Regularly monitor and update hyperlinks on your website. Dead or outdated links reflect poorly on your business.

4. Order Form

Place your ordering link at a prominent position. Let your visitors find your order form easily. Test form thoroughly for bugs. Don't lose sales because your order form doesn't work or hang halfway through transaction!

Make sure that your prices, shipping and handling costs, delivery schedule, return policy and guarantees are clearly displayed or linked.

Ask only for necessary information to complete sale transaction. Avoid unnecessary fields. Your customers want to complete their transaction quickly.

5. Seal Programs

Seal Programs such as Better Business Bureau Online (BBBOnline) Reliability Seal at http://www.bbbonline.org can enhance your business image.

Displaying these seals on your website assure potential customers that your business is credible and legitimate. This is especially useful for new startups or small businesses.

2) To offer a free download such as an e-book or some other free offer.

3) As a final sales pitch for your product or service

4) To offer a free course by autoresponder Remember, you never want to have more than one pop up window (something porn sites are famous for). Nothing makes a surfer madder than having two or three windows open up and possibly crash his browser in process. You can even set it up so that only first time visitors see pop up window. By using a script that sets a cookie you can ensure that your popup never appears to same user more than once. And that's only one of options you have when adding pop ups to your site. There are software programs you can download that will make them easy to configure, as well. An example of this would be http://www.codelifter.com/pop5index.html They do offer a free demo and if you like it you can purchase it for a mere $20.00. There are also plenty of free online pop up generators you can use that let you design pop ups to any size and specification. Some of them are: http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/0-7701-8-4561792-1.html Scroll down to link that says "Tip- Window Maker" http://www.linkcounter.com/go.php?linkid=220844 Pop Up Making Wizard http://www.makingprofit.com/mp/free/popgen.shtml Making Profit's Online PopUp Generator

If you're looking for an easy script you can just cut and paste take a look at http://wsabstract.com/script/cut65.shtml

So next time you decide to add a pop up to your website, make sure you keep above pointers in mind and your new windows will work for you instead of against you!