Saturday, August 9, 2008

Why Having A Website For Your Business Is Not Enough

By Ricardo d Argence


So you have a website; however, you still do not have the results you would like to see. There is not enough traffic coming to you. You may be getting enough traffic, but what is the traffic to sales conversion for that traffic. Why is this? Why is your website not producing the results you want? Well, simply put, you need to make the website work for you because just putting it up for your business is not enough.

Below you'll find some advice on building effective websites.

1. Navigation. Your website needs to be easily navigated. Your visitors and potential customers need to be able to find exactly what they are looking for when they need it. If you make your visitors hunt for anything, you can be sure that they will get frustrated easily and give up, which means you have just lost a potential sale. Therefore, make sure that all pages connect with each other and can be navigated to and from any point of your website with extreme ease.

2. Professionalism. Your website must scream professionalism. It must have a professional look, feel, and design. Your graphics should be clean and crisp, as well as appealing.

3. Lure Traffic. Be sure to use profitable pay per click affiliates like Adwords and AdSense. These are great methods of getting targeted traffic. Targeted traffic is crucial. If your field is decorating cakes, you want thse who have interests in things like cake decoration, candy, and other parts of the field. If you are searching for pet food, this site will be of no interest to you. Receiving traffic is wonderful, but traffic should be targeted to a specific group, otherwise the traffic is in vain.

4. Sales. Increase your likability in order to increase your sales. Because of this, you will need your guests and visitors to trust you. Clearly displaying your privacy policy, terms and conditions statement and guarantee will achieve this.

5. Build Your Customer Database. If you offer something for free, you can more easily obtain contact information from potential customers, which could help turn them into paying customers. Everyone loves free stuff. Maybe a free report based on your niche would be perfect. You would offer this free report, e-book, or other product on each page of your website. This is related to getting your customers' contact information the soonest possible.

The aforementioned tips will help to increase sales and increase the number of people looking at your products. The success of your website will determine the success of your internet business.

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