Web Design: Are you scaring visitors away from your site instead of attracting them to it?

Are you scaring visitors away from your site instead of attracting them to it?

Written by Akanksha Sinha

Have you ever wondered why your "perfect" website is not generating repparttar

kind of traffic you hoped it would? Time for a reality check! Maybe your website isn't as perfect as you thought! Heart broken? Don't be it's not too late to correct those mistakes...Begin Now!

Here are some of repparttar 132593 most common mistakes people make while building their websites:

1.PAGE CANNOT BE FOUND :

Broken links and dead links can cause a lot of damage to your website. Make sure all your links work - There is nothing more annoying to your visitors than clicking on a link only to find a ‘page cannot be displayed' error message!

2.PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION :

Don't put a link on your site that takes you to a ‘page under construction!' Put repparttar 132594 link on repparttar 132595 site when you have something to offer. Don't toy with your visitors' time, patience and emotions!!! Oh! And please take off that annoying ‘page under construction' logo right NOW!!!

3.MULTIPLE POP UPS :

Pop ups should be used wisely, if at all! Don't drive your visitors crazy with multiple pop-up windows flooding their screen. They will never forgive you for repparttar 132596 time and effort they had to waste in closing those pop-ups!!!

4.BLACK / GARISH LOOKING BACKGROUNDS :

Avoid using black as your page background color. It not only makes it difficult to read repparttar 132597 content on your website but also makes your site look illegal and spammy! Make sure that your site conveys useful information to your visitors and in repparttar 132598 process convinces them that you are worth doing business with.

5.ILLEGIBLE TEXT :

Make repparttar 132599 content on your website easy to read, grasp and follow. Use font sizes that will not strain repparttar 132600 eyes while reading. The content should gel well with your overall page format. Use slightly bigger and bold text for main headings as compared to your body copy.

Website Ranking -What's Your Position?

Written by Stephen Cope

Website ranking is about your position in repparttar search engine results for a particular keyword. Search engine optimisation is about making a Website/Web pages to rank highly (first 30 results) on repparttar 132590 search engine results Page (SERP).

Your Website Ranking/Position is Important

Your Website rank or position for a particular keyword is what determines whether or not you receive visitors from repparttar 132591 search engines. It is generally accepted that if you are not ranked in repparttar 132592 top 30 search results for a particular keyword then as far as repparttar 132593 search engines are concerned you donÆt exist for that keyword.

Check your Website Ranking/Position Manually

To check your Website rank for a particular keyword repparttar 132594 go to repparttar 132595 search engine whose position you want to check and enter your keyword. You then need to go through repparttar 132596 results and try to locate your Website URL in repparttar 132597 results. This manual method of checking your Website ranking position is both time consuming and tedious. It is however repparttar 132598 most reliable and search engine friendly.

Goggle have made Checking your Website ranking at Goggle easier with a ranking page www.googleranking.com which allows you to check your Website position in repparttar 132599 first 1000 results.

Exactseek also have a very similar feature at http://www.exactseek.com/srank.html

Because Exactseek usually index within a week I use it as a quick check for my web page. If I canÆt get it to rank at repparttar 132600 top or near repparttar 132601 top in Exactseek it is unlikely to rank high in Goggle or Yahoo.

Check your Website Ranking Using Software Tools

There are many Website ranking tools and software packages that will automate this process of position checking and they are essential to most webmasters. However despite their use and prevalence repparttar 132602 major search engines do not allow them. They are however tolerated. So in respect to repparttar 132603 search engines please donÆt overdo repparttar 132604 use of website ranking software.

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