Look through your visitors eyes

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Halifax Real Estate

You have your website set up and ready to launch. All good right? But now wait a second!! Who has seen and tested the site except from you?

If the answer to the above question is no one, you should really wait with the launch and go through this list and see if your site really is ready to launch.

When building or optimizing your website yourself you probably miss out on a lot of small errors or things that is not appealing to your visitors. Ask a friend or colleague to test your site and give you an honest opinion on the look and functionality.

Who is your site built for? You or your visitors? I bet it is the second choice. Then imagine you are the visitor of your own site. You know what you want from a website yourself, so does your website meet your own demands? Will your first time visitors be coming back?

Be careful with the monetization of your site. You probably hate a site full with ads yourself, so avoid pop-ups and such disturbing things. But do not get me wrong, if you are going to monetize your site, then do really monetize it.

So where do I want to get with this? Do not rush the launch of your site. The first impression is the most important and most visitors will not give you a second chance and that means a loss of potential customers. You can probably agree that this is something very unnecessary and something that can be prevented quite easy.

April 19, 2007 | Filed Under Make Money Blogging

Comments

2 Responses to “Look through your visitors eyes”

Jason on April 19th, 2007 6:28 pm

Yea I dont think pop up ads are good. I would stay away from them, makes a site too spammy. Nice write up.
Thanks
Andreas Bard on April 19th, 2007 7:45 pm

Thanks for your comment Jason. Pop-ups are probably the worst advertsing solution I can think of and I used it to really make an example of what is to much.

//Andreas

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