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4 Ways to Improve your online performance in 2010

If people can’t use your site, they won’t stay! Simple solutions for retention!

By: Exact Abacus
Category: Internet
Posted: Mar 03, 2010
Updated: Mar 03, 2010
Views: 101


Usability ‐ it matters. If people can’t use your site, they won’t stay!
1. Navigation: Ensure that your navigation is easy to use and consistent. You may be able to use it,
but could a newcomer find the information they desire?
2. Search: does your site have a search function? Try looking at Google’s free embedded search
tool.
3. Title & Alt Attributes: Use them how they are supposed to be used. If you haven’t used any at
all, start adding them to navigation and other elements on every page.
4. Keep it simple: If your site has any functions that could annoy the user, like opening new pages
in a new window, then remove them. Don’t take over their desktop!
Search Engine Optimisation ‐ because you want to be found.
1. Titles: Add consistent and relevant titles (title tag) to every page in your site. Titles should be
short and describe the content of the page.
2. Link around: Internal links to your pages are just as important as external links.
3. Strengthen keywords: Probably the quickest thing you can do. Highlight some keywords and
phrases and add a strong tag (bold) around them. Use sparingly.
4. Headers: The correct use of headers can produce fantastic results. The H1 tag is the most
important ‐ use some keywords in there.
Content ‐ That’s why people visit the site.
1. Images: create compelling images, but don’t forget to optimise them for the web. You may have
a quick connection, but not everybody does.
2. Text/Whitespace: create a balance between text and space. Less is more!
3. Write for your audience: Can people understand your copy and is it objective?
4. Use interest: point the user to other resources at the footer of an article, whether it be another
article or a product.
Off‐Site – be a part of the online community
1. Network: Go to forums, blogs and portals within your niche. Offer advice, network and gain
respect. Doing this for 10 minutes a day will improve your image and lead to quality, niche‐lead
traffic.
2. Encourage viral promotion: Tell your clients something unique about you, your company or
website and chances are they’ll pass it on.
3. Be yourself: When interacting online, don’t conform to internet stereotypes ‐ just be yourself.
Take your offline business ways online.
4. Spam: As in don’t spam!

For more information or advice go to our website http://www.exactabacus.com or contact us on sales@exactabacus.com

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