A lot of people have the false impression that once you put the page on the net then everybody will come and view it. The internet is vast, if nobody knows where your site is, chances are, nobody will visit your site at all. To fair number of people this is not a problem. However to the commercial website manager, this is becoming a large problem. Clearly, attracting potential customers to visit your site is the key to sucess on the internet. Traditionally people are doing this via banner exchange, affliated program, purchased advertising and such with varying results. For the majority however, the return is not too gratifing. There is also offline media options. But things like TV and newspaper can only relate to the internet indirectly, as the viewer has to stop what ever they are doing and get online to get to your web site. Only big companies have been able to justify spending large amount of money on offline advertising.
So far, the methods that have proven to be the most popular and effective for most people are search engine promotion and opt-in emailing. But let us look at how to competently promote your website through design and creation.
To enhance your websites appeal, there needs to be a image of sucess. There is a famous saying in Hollywood: "If people think you are successful, then you are successful". It is essential when building your website to give people the impression that you are going well! For example if you have counter showing how many people have visited your site before, start it from 1000. Showing any awards and such that your business has attained will also aid in generating a better impression about your website and the products you are selling.
It is also advised that the website is 'smooth'; make it simple yet attractive and above all straight to the point. There is no point letting a surfer wait for 30 seconds just to see some fancy flash that doesn't have much to do with what they looking for. Making a potential customer wait is the biggest sin any website designer can commit. Always test your site out on the slower modem connection after it is done and make sure something is happening within 2 or 3 seconds. Otherwise it is most likely that surfers will abondon waiting and look for another site.
Besides this time factor, there are other things you need to consider. Over using images and flashes, is another mistake that a lot of people make when they create websites. They might look pretty, however your average search engine's robot can not read images and flashes, and they will just simply ignore it. If your page is solely or mostly composed of images and flash, this probably will casuse search engine's spider to categorise the page as having a lack of content and index it very low or not index it at all.
Stop! Don't spend another dollar of your hard earned money, UNTIL you've purchased Dynamic Submission! Let me tell you folks, this software rocks! It's so EASY to use, and the interface is well designed and not cumbersome. When I had all the information regarding my site entered into the software, and pressed submit, I had my doubts! I was expecting timeouts, for the software to stall, for a lot of the submissions to fail, BUT, this software just fires away, submitting my site to ALL those engines, and it worked flawlessly! I'm so impressed, I'll never use another submission service again! In fact, I plan on upgrading soon.
Oh yeah, 1 more thing. The customer support is friendly and quick! You've got nothing to loose with Apex Pacific, buy your copy of Dynamic Submission today!
Jeffrey Rookard , Webmaster, Tetra Hosting.
Your reply to my most recent
email cleared up a lot. Thank you. The software does look wonderful-very
easy to use, very efficient, and wow-gives a lot of wonderful
opportunity to the user in terms of increasing effectiveness
in marketing.
As a manager and businessman for many years, I must say that a
responsive support/customer service team is one of the things that
sets a company apart from the rest. Personally, I will not do business
with a company that does not return emails, or who I have to constantly
bug and follow up on just to get an answer to a simple question.
You and your company obviously adhere to the same high standards
that I do.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
SP Khalsa
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