Website Building Ideas to go with Your Squeeze Page and Traffic Exchange Program
Participating in traffic exchange programs can be a rewarding experience once you have your ducks in a row. A great squeeze page with leads capture form and a solid follow up autoresponder series can help you gather lots of leads and generate sales. But if you send people to your website, you want to pay attention to these main points :
1) Time to Download - make sure your site doesn’t take too long to download. Check it at any number of free web analyzer sites like this one: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze and tweak your site as needed, seeking tips on the type site you have in online articles. For example, if your site is a Wordpress blog, seek articles on how to get your Wordpress blog to load faster. You may need smaller images, better meta tags, a plug in to speed up the site or other tech fix.
2) Navigation – Make sure you have some way for people to surf you site in a logical manner. Use drop down menus, an index with buttons or other type of set up. For ideas, see which type of navigation you like best by going to your favorite sites to see what they use. Then test your navigation on a regular basis to make sure it works and that the links take you where you want to go.
3) Legibility – In general, when people get to your site, unless it’s an adult site – and even if it is, keep in mind they need to:
- Be able to easy pass through it once in seconds to make sure it’s suitable, meaning no flashy buttons and things going on, no pop ups, no spam/ porn, etc. linked anywhere, even in banners.
- Be able to go through it more slowly once they feel it’s a safe site to be on, and read it, meaning no tiny fonts please. And have no light blue text on light yellow background or equally vision-strain on the site.
- Find eye-pleasing compatible graphics that go with your text. In short, don’t use funny comics on a site geared to address consoling loved ones after a death like on a funeral web page.
- Good content. Check that you have the correct spelling, grammar and topics in your articles, testimonials, blog and forum posts and other content. No one wants to click on a dog site, for example, and read content about elephants.
4) Safe Check Out – If you are inviting shoppers to buy on your site, make sure you have safe access where an “https” shows up in the browser instead of “http” with a secure link. See your web host for info on this. Or head to shopping carts for help like GoDaddy.com where you can look at their Quick Cart solutions for around $10 per month, or look at using basic Paypal.com shopping cart buttons.
Once you have your whole site and especially your cart set up, test it or ask a friend to test if for you. Ask your friend for a testimonial, too, to use on your website.
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Good job. I like it.
You have touched on contrast without actually naming it. Please, in the selection of fonts, to preserve acceptable contrast, it is good to avoid skinny letters. Most of us can enlarge what you send, but a skinny letter enlarged, still tends to be skinny and lacking contrast. To get good contrast we need letters with solid strokes.
Another nice thing you can do is let the viewer change the line length and allow word wrap. Shrinking the line length allows enleargement without having it run off the screen. This will be appreciated.
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