Tried
and Tested Tips to Improve your Website - Part 1
By newsforuse.freehosting.net
1. DO NOT use excessive graphics or banner images on a single
web page. They tend to slow the loading of your Web page.
Impatient surfers might close their browser and move on. Usually
your web page must load within 10 seconds. If you have many
images on a single page, consider deleting few of them or
moving them to a new page.
2. You should include these elements on your website: About
Us [Brief description of your company and its products. You
can include a few personal details about yourself and your
employees], Contact Us [Provide the postal address, telephone,
fax, email of your company or business.], A Links to Related
Sites page, A Home Page link on each page and Site Search
tool to allow visitors to find information on your site.
3. Give something FREE on your website. You can offer free
ebooks, articles and/or software. The stuff that you give
away should be related to the topic of your website and should
benefit your vistors in some way. This helps to keep people
coming back to your website.
4. You should specify colors for page background, text, active
link, visited link and Url links in the body tag. This will
ensure that your site is displayed exactly as designed. Although
most people are used to reading text on a white background,
you should avoid the white background because it strains the
eye.
5. In the Keywords Meta tag try to use both singular and
plural variations of the words. e.g. internet cafes, internet
cafe. DO NOT use a keyword more than 3 times and DO NOT repeat
a keyword one after the other.
6. Other than the Keyword and Description Meta tags, you
must try to use keywords in following areas: the Title tag,
the Content of the page, Image names, Image alt tags, Href
title attributes and in the Text of a link.
7. Now a days most surfers are using PHRASES for search terms.
This means that you should also use phrases in the Meta keyword
tag. For deciding the keywords use the suggestion tools provided
by Overture or 7Search. Overture is more popular than 7Search.
You can also use the Free Trial provided by Word Tracker.
8. Try to keep the total size of your web page under 32 kilobytes[kb].
The size of the web page is the sum of the size of the HTML
file and the sizes of all images on the web page. Always check
the web page/s for errors in spelling and grammar before uploading
it to your server. After uploading the web page/s get friends
and colleagues to read through your site and point out any
errors they see.
9. Check for broken links on your web pages on a regular
basis. You can do this manually or use a software program
to do this for you. Links to website which have shut down
or sold out will lead to broken links.
A handy online tool that can check your website for broken
links can be found at: http://www.stickysauce.com/cgi-local/linkcheck/linkcheck.pl
10. If you have an Autoresponder to build an Opt-In list,
use a double Opt-In. The first message should ask for confirmation
of the Opt-In and have a link that allows users to remove
themselves from the list. Only if the user sends the confirmation,
should the 2nd message be sent.
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