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7 Reasons Bad Website Design Affects Traffic
Posted by David Hobson | Posted in Misc | Posted on 10-10-2008
Everybody wants traffic to their website but for some reason not everybody gets it. The Internet is a very competitive place with most niches having thousands of people competing against each over for traffic and sales.
One thing that can help you get above your competitors and receive the traffic is to make sure your website is well designed and not full of errors. Here are some of the common problems that will prevent a website performing will in the search engines.
Not coded correctly:
Many websites use old or very badly put together HTML using bold tags where strong tags should be and H2 tags instead of H1 tags. A properly coded website will make it easier to be indexed and faster to load. Check out http://validator.w3.org/ as this is an excellent tool for checking validity of a websites code.
Incorrect titles:
Search engines will use your titles as links back to your website so make sure you use them and place your keywords in their as well but don’t do what many people do and stuff their titles with keywords this will just result in no traffic.
Black hat SEO:
Black hat SEO is big big no no when it comes to building websites with this you are asking for a ban. Examples include hiding links and keywords with your code.
Not interested in Web 2:
Not including links to web 2 websites such as Stumble or Digg will leave you at a big disadvantage right from the start.
Wow easy on the flash:
Flash is useless if you want to be indexed as search engines cant read it and more to the point many visitors will not like it.
Boring Boring:
The content on your website is too boring and people don’t want to read it. Even if you have the best looking website around your content has to be just as good.
Duplicate content:
You have been copy and pasting content from other websites. This will get you no where as search engines love quality unique content. One common dupe content issue is many people trying to promote the same affiliate products with out changing the default text.
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Getting traffic to your website is one thing, but getting targeted traffic to your website is another.For this you need to do keyword research around your website theme, make sure that your keywords have good demand and supply numbers and that more importantly you can rank for these keywords.Then you need to write interesting, compelling content for you website readers to read around your chosen keywords.
Once this is done you would start to build your web page optimized with your keyword, including populating meta tags, headline tags and in a few key places within your web copy.Once this is accomplished, submit to search engines and then wait for your web page to be added to the search engines database.
Their is a lot to do and remember, but this is how I build all my websites which in turn attract free targeted traffic.It’s defiantly a long term process but necessary to succeed on line
I agree with all of it except for the last reason….
Duplicate content for me are good…..
I have a blog, and this blog content are all duplicate content..
Shocking, i earn more from this blog other than any other of my blog..
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All excellent advice and I really appreciate the validator link
Shawal – where are you duping from?
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Also poor design will make a fairly large segment of readers decide it is lame and not worth looking at and more importantly for the topic linking to. If you fail to provide content others link to you will have trouble being found.
David – I’m not sure why I got this feeded to me again via email, but it’s interesting that it has.
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Great post. i really agree with you. Most of the time , its seen that because of incorrect keywords placed in the title causes the lack of traffic and also an incorrect description can be a cause.
Really great and spot on post. From my experience, duplicate contents such as PLR articles, as well as boring or not engaging contents, are the main reason why sometimes people are just simply not interested to read our blog.
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I hate proxy websites.
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Very useful article.It will help for webdesigners.They should read your article.
Its true.Each and every web designers should read your article before start to design one website.Then they can avoid more mistakes.Very useful post.Even I will recommend my friend(web designer) to read your article.Because helping hands are better than praying lips.
People should read this.Because seo is most important for websites nowadays.So people should mind this.