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The 25 Deadly Sins For
Your Internet Marketing Website
© 2002 by Detlev Reimer
Content Is KING!
If you create a website, be sure to have valuable content
you
can offer. Try to find facts which cannot be
found anywhere
else on the Internet. It can be a lot of hard work, but if
you can
deliver unique content, you will certainly have visitors
which will
appreciate this.
Especially, having dozens of banners at your homepage should
be avoided. This is like to say to someone on the street :
"Give
me all your money". Your visitor has not intended to
come to
your website to make you money but to find valuable
content
he can profit from.
Be Decent With Your Ads
Of course, this should not refrain you from making money
with
your website, but it has to be more decent than blinking
banners
everywhere on your page. One banner, a sponsor, should be
enough for one page.
Once you have finished your pages and uploaded them to your
webspace, be sure to check everything online as well. Often,
the links work on your local computer but if you want to
access
it on the net, pages cannot be found, graphics are not
loaded,
links lead to nowhere-land, forms do not work correctly etc.
...
etc.
Check Every Link Online
Most of the times this is due to the fact that links are
automati-
cally set to your local directories and not to your URL. So
make
sure, you test every link online as well, especially the
spelling of
your linknames. This is a very common source for faults and
testing is something I would really recommend.
Test The Functionality Of Your Forms
If you have forms on your web site, test the functionality
with
your own contact information and e-mail address first.
Nothing
is more annoying to your visitors than if they want to
contact
you through the form you deliver and then nothing happens or
they get an errror messsage. This doesn't have to be that
way.
25 Deadly Sins For Your Internet Marketing Website
01. Your page has so many advertisements on it that your
content is hidden
02. Background sound is played in a loop and cannot be
switched off and takes ages to load
03. Your visitors get confused by too many links on your
home-
page
04. Incoming e-mails are answered after more than 3 days
05. Links cannot be recognized as being links
06. Letting the visitor guess what comes next if they click
on
a link (Text like: more or next page)
07. Hiding your links within the text so that they only can
be
found by placing the mouse over it ( it becomes a hand...)
08. Using more than 6 different colours for your basic
design
09. Visitors have to guess which submenu they are in
10. Many spelling errors in your body copy
11. Nothing for FREE on your site
12. Forced registration on your first page or no content
available
13. Your page takes 2 or 3 minutes to load ... most people
will
interrupt it
14. Using wrong fonts (fonts which are installed on YOUR
computer only)
15. Showing the same picture but name them differently. By
doing this, it cannot be taken from your browser cache to
speed up the loading time of your page
16. No cross-browser test; your site looks excellent on the
Internet Explorer but...
17. Scaling your graphics only by width and height
attributes
of your HTML-code instead of making your graphics
smaller/bigger
18. Headlines as gifs instead of text; search engines will
ignore
them and your loading time will increase
19. Using dozens of blinking elements and marquee-fonts on
your pages
20. No unique content, just rehashed material from other
web-
sites
21 "Ugly" pages; colours which don't fit together,
backgrounds
which make your text very hard to read
22. Pages which have no "exit", no links which
lead you back
to your starting page
23. Choosing a hard to remember name for your website, you
want to be found, don't you ?
24. Wrong prices for your articles
25. Choosing slow ISP's
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+ Forgetting to have fun! Don't take everything too serious
;-)
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included .
Detlev Reimer is the publisher of the 1A IMS-Newsletter
which
gives you tips and tricks on organizing your marketing data,
web
site and ezine promotion and testing and tracking ads.
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