Why Are People Not Staying At My Site?

How come people are not staying at my site?

In this newsletter we will give you five tips on what you can do to get more customers and keep more customers:

1. When you type in a specific website address and you know what products or services they offer, do you like to wait for a flash animation to finish before you can enter the site? NO? Well neither does anyone else. if you have a flash intro page, think about removing it or at least make sure that you can exit the animation at any time.

In addition, if you have problems getting your site indexed on the search engines, a flash intro page could be the reason.

Flash is not search friendly and may actually prevent the engines from indexing the rest of your site.

2. You find a company website that is full of flashing buttons, scrolling bars and animated graphics. Does that give you the impression of a solid, reputable company that you would want to do business with? If your site is like that and you are not in the business of selling toys, you may find your customers lacking.

3. "Welcome to our Home Page. You are visitor number 211." How does this make you feel? Would you do business with acompany where you are visitor number 211? You would not. If you keep a counter on your page, either keep it to yourself, or at least make sure that the numbers you display show long term stability and inspire confidence.

4. People are coming to your site in droves but then they are leaving again. Have you made your site simple to navigate or do you have links all over the place with no organization? Think about it. If it is too hard for people to find the information they want quickly, they will look elsewhere.

5. What do you do when a web page seems to take forever to load? You click the "STOP" button and look elsewhere. Your customers are the same. If you have too many graphics on your page and it takes more than 30 seconds to load, you will loose customers. Make sure your pages load fast.