To have a successful website you want to make your website homepage an all the related pages engage, inspire, and educate your audience.
A successful website is user friendly for both the search engines and your target audience.
These 10 quick tips will help you be more effective in attracting your audience to your website homepage, keep them there and interacting with your website for small business success.
1. Design your website to be compatible with the largest number of viewers. Have the resolution set to 1024×768.
2. Avoid large graphic files, pictures, and fancy applets that make pages load slowly.
3. Be creative with your design but keep your hyperlinks in the normal blue color which means they have not been selected and purple which means they have been.
4. Optimize your graphics so they load fast.
5. Use bullets, descriptive headlines, and sub texts to make your page easy to read and find information.
6. Red and yellow should not be used on your website, these bright colors cause the human eye to strain and it will be tiring to look at your page.
7. Make your hyperlinks short; and use keywords whenever possible when selecting the words to use in the hyperlink.
8. Make sure to put your contact info on the bottom of each page. Your website address, email, name, and physical address this makes visitors to your site much more comfortable. It lends credibility.
9. If you are selling something it should take less than two clicks to select what your customer is looking for and check out.
10. Don’t use frames on websites. They are confusing for visitors to navigate and search engines won’t look past your front page, so you will have poor search engine ranking because of it.
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