Think you've built a killer website? Think again

Here is an excellent article of 20 things you don't want on your website. I.e. 20 ways to scare customers away.

I have done several of these in the past, and will be doing an audit to make sure I am not doing any of them now.

Excerpt:

Hello Everyone, many website owners make schoolboy errors, that makes their website, well, crap. These errors can cause an annoyance to a large percentage of visitors, and can actually drive traffic away. If you avoid all the reasons I have listed below, you are sure to have an outstanding annoying free website!

Just remember value. If you provide that on your website, your visitors will keep coming back time and time again for more. Read full article

How to Check is your Site Effective or Not?

Author: pntglobal

Whether it is ecommerce site or cooperate entity. It is important to know the effectiveness of your web site. People often don’t care about their web site if it is not generating any revenue but one should understand that revenue is not the only objective for any business. There are some long term objectives as well and among those objective reputation of the organization is the most important. Web site is the best tool to create reputation of your organization. Web site reflects the core identity of any organization and therefore it is important to know the effectiveness of your web site.

To know the effectiveness of your organization’s web site here are few tips to do. These will help you calculate the number of visitors interested in your web site and what they think about your web site.

1. Feedback form

2. Signup for Newsletters

3. Signup for email ids (if you are running a kind of portal)

4. Blogs

5. Forums

6. Polls

7. Google Analytic

8. Adsense (It not only generate revenues but also help knowing visitors trend)

9. Analysis of Raw Log file

Analysis of raw log file is the most important thing and one should know how to analyze raw log files. There are different software available to read log files and many of these are free. These raw files help in knowing the demography of your visitors. Sites from which your site accessed. Keywords used to access your site and lot more including visitors trend.

This is important to keep your site updated and know the feed back of visitors through above mentioned mechanism and then again update the site accordingly so the people keep visiting your web site.

Note Web site is your organization’s on-line personality.

Source:

Shahid H. Qadri is internet marketing consultant at PNT Global. More information can be viewed at www.PNTGlobal.com

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Website Tools

Here are some website and Internet tools that I have found very helpful:

• CoolText

Type in what you want and what style of text, colors - and the site processes it for you. Buttons, graphics, etc. Right click the image to save to your computer and use the image on your site or blog, etc. Lots of uses.

• CopyScape

Copyscape is free at the basic level. You simply cut and paste the page urls from your site into their search field, and it helps you locate places where your text could be being used without your permission. If you find your content is being stolen, the site tells you what to do about it.

• Ebay Listing Help

Want to make your Ebay listings stand out from the crowd? This site has a lot of tips and help with HTML code. You could also try Auctiva, which is a site that helps you make beautiful Ebay listings. An advantage of Auctiva is that you can store your listings and then 'release' them to post to Ebay at the same time without the extra fee for scheduling a listing that Ebay charges.

• HTML Basix

You guessed it! Another site to help you with HTML. I know I often need help to make an image a link or to make a link open in a new window. This site will help you figure all that out.

• KeywordSpy
  

This site enables you to see what your competitors are using for keywords in their Adsense campaign and website(s). Helps you figure out your competition's marketing strategy. Free trial of the website's services. Keyword Spy is designed to help you get ahead in keyword advertising programs.

• My Contact Form

My Contact Form is currently about $30 for a year's membership. You can make as many contact forms for your site as you like for that fee. You can make a form for customers to contact you, or you can use their forms for a customer survey...many uses. Downside of it is that they do not have any visual verification to make sure that when the form is filled out, it's being filled out by a person - so there is often some spam that comes to me through my form. But a small price to pay for such a good deal and the form has always worked. It's very easy to modify for whatever you need, too!

• Page Rank from RankWhere

• Page Rank Predictor

Who knows how accurate all this stuff is, but it never hurts to look and learn more about Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

• TrendMicro Free Virus Scan

This is a very good virus scan and it is a trusted site. The first time I used it, I was very nervous about letting a website search my computer drives, but it is a good scanner. They offer the scan to promote their Trend Micro PC-Cillin computer software (which is also excellent)

• Website Color Help

It is sometimes difficult to get a template of colors that look good together for your website.
This site helps you try out different combinations to see what works well for you.