Small Business Q & A: Does Your Website Induce Seizures?

Written by Tim Knox


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Here are a few other things you can do to make sure your site offers visitors a pleasant - and seizure free - browsing experience.

Sit In The Visitor's Chair The best way to make sure your website is as user friendly as it can be, is to sit down at a computer and approach your site from a typical visitor's point of view. Try to imagine that you are seeingrepparttar site forrepparttar 118783 first time. If you are unable to do this, have a friend who has never seenrepparttar 118784 site click around and offer comments while you take notes.

Have your friend assessrepparttar 118785 following points: Isrepparttar 118786 site appealing torepparttar 118787 eye? Arerepparttar 118788 colors pleasing and complimentary? Isrepparttar 118789 site easy to navigate? Arerepparttar 118790 topical categories and subcategories in logical order? Is it easy to find what you're looking for? Doesrepparttar 118791 site have a search engine to make finding things easier? Is every feature ofrepparttar 118792 site less than two or three clicks away? Ifrepparttar 118793 answer to any or all of these points is no, you have some work to do.

Don't Dictate Technology One sure fire way to repel web site visitors is to require that they have special browser plug-ins or 3rd party add-on browser software installed to view your site. Dictating thatrepparttar 118794 user download and install software is not your place and users will resent you (and your business) for it. Visiting your site should be an effortless pleasure, not a technological chore.

Don't Make Them Wait If your homepage takes longer than 20 seconds to download (appear inrepparttar 118795 visitor's browser) you are losing visitors, period. Gratuitous animation, large graphics, poorly formatted HTML, bad page layout, and a number of other factors can increase download time. You might haverepparttar 118796 greatest web site inrepparttar 118797 world, but if it takes ten minutes to download no one will ever see it.

The lessons to be learned, then, are threefold. One: a website should be designed to satisfyrepparttar 118798 visitor's needs, not to pacify repparttar 118799 site designer's ego.

Two: visitors to a business website are not there to be awed and entertained. They are there looking for information, and unless you give it to them quickly and effortlessly, they will go elsewhere to get it.

And Three: for better mental and physical health avoid Pokemon at all costs.

Here's to your success.

Tim Knox tim@dropshipwholesale.net For information on starting your own online or eBay business, visit http://www.dropshipwholesale.net

Tim Knox as the president and CEO of two successful technology companies: B2Secure Inc., a Web-based hiring management software company; and Digital Graphiti Inc., a software development company. Tim is also the founder of dropshipwholesale.net, an ebusiness dedicated to the success of online entrepreneurs. http://www.dropshipwholesale.net http://www.smallbusinessqa.com


Using Brainstorming to Find Keywords

Written by Saro Tribastone


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-make a session for every root word you want to work on

then

2. Select

Compare allrepparttar words you produced withrepparttar 118782 words you found with keywords search tool onrepparttar 118783 net, see if they repeat often and where they range inrepparttar 118784 keyword list

-reducerepparttar 118785 list -highlights words you read often -do not delete words you didn't find in search tools -there are different uses forrepparttar 118786 same keyword?

3. Choose

When you have to chooserepparttar 118787 brainstorming process is over. Go on your favourite search engine and type every single word and allrepparttar 118788 combinations of them you choose, to see who already uses them and how.

Atrepparttar 118789 end you will have some "new" keywords to use. If you are not satisfied with them, you can always start again.

Saro Tribastone is an italian psychologist who is currently developing a website about: creative techniques, tools & web resources to write and promote ebooks; using creativity to find keywords; writing articles to get traffic. http://www.ebooktoolsinfo.com


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