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4. Fatal Flaw Four—Out of Control Scroll Similar to number three, is out of control scroll. This is when you have to scroll text left to right as well as up and down. This happens when newbies design their websites larger than 800 pixels wide.
SOLUTION—Most people view resolution at 800x600. Set your table widths around 750 and everyone will be able to look at your site without using a bottom scrollbar.
5. Fatal Flaw Five—Gargantuan Images This is when newbies take photos directly off their scanner or digital camera without resizing and without compressing. And nothings worse than landing on a page that has an image taking over whole screen, taking forever to download.
SOLUTION—Using a photo program like Paint Shop, Photo Shop or other, resize images to fit in table you intend to put it in. (Usually under 500 pixels wide.) Compress to 72 dots per inch. (DPI) Photos scanned or taken for print are large and usually at 300 dpi—no one wants to wait on those!
6. Fatal Flaw Six—Nonsense Affiliate Links This is same as “sites with no value.” There’s nothing that looks more like a newbie did it than a page full of banners, buttons, and text links taking visitors away from Newbie’s site.
SOLUTION—At least publish free articles on topic of your affiliate program. For example, let’s say you’ve signed up for a “make money selling traffic” idea. There are thousands of free articles that you can publish on getting more website traffic. Put your affiliate link at bottom, top, or middle of page article is published on. Not only will having content make your site more interesting, it will also make your site more valuable to search engines.
These are just 6 little mistakes. But if you can at least change these, you are well on your way to having a more saleable site!
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