Top 10 List Of What Not To Include On Your Website

Top 10 List Of What Not To Include On Your Website

10. Typ-Os. 

Make sure every word is proofread - several times. If you think customers will forgive typos and misspelled words because of the great products you sell, think again.

9. Unsupervised chat boards. 

Instead, consider adding a blog - Blogging allows you to engage in a conversation with your customers while improving your search engine rank.

8. Content that makes your business sound too good to be true. 

Sure, you're trying to sell something via your website. But marketing content, including product pitches and customer testimonials, that boasts and brags more than it informs and interests people is certain to turn off many visitors. Don't make your website an infomercial. Refrain from using overly excited punctuation (!!!!!) and littering copy with superlatives like "Best, Cheapest, Most Amazing". Instead, think like a consumer/customer who is trying to seek out information, results or solutions. Use a Call To Action incentive to try your products/services. 

7. Your photo on the home page.

Leave the Glamour shots for your Facebook page.

6. Too many confusing menu options

Keep your navigation bar consistent and prominent on every page.

5. Bad links and outdated material.

Even if your site is not content-rich, a key to getting repeat visitors is to offer something new when they return — new graphics, new product information, new offers, new article links, new company news, whatever. If you sell products or offer services, updating your online catalogs and product or services pages regularly will let people know you're still active in the business. It also gives you a chance to vary the offerings you tout and test what resonates with your target audience. Consider adding a video demonstration of your latest new product or investing in a content management system (CMS) software that allows you to make changes easily and frequently.

4. Unclear Direction for Contact Us:

Put a clear link from the home page that leads to your company's contact information including the company phone number, fax, postal mailing address and e-mail. Consider adding a toll free phone number.

3. Avoid extraneous bells and whistles,

or pages that take forever to load that slow users down.

2. Blaring Music That Can't Be Turned Off QUICKLY.

1. A website that looks like it is from 1999 with

numerous distractions like pop up ads or counter of how many People Have Visited the Site!