Websites That Work: Part 1

January 21, 2009

Everyone who owns a website wants to increase traffic to their site. They rightly, or wrongly, believe that increased traffic will produce increased leads and business. However, most of these people never consider “is my website ready for prime time.”

All your marketing and optimization efforts may be wasted if your website is dysfunctional. Many of your visitors will abandon your website before they ever arrive if your pages are slow in loading. Slow loading pages are the kiss of death for any website. One of these obstacles is related to your websites content such as too many pictures or graphics. The other obstacle maybe related to the website hosting package that you purchased. You may not have enough bandwidth for your traffic.

Let’s first consider the slow loading page due to content. This is usually a result of a page that is loaded with, animation, graphics, and pictures. All of these dramatically slow down the opening of a web page. Consider replacing them with Keyword rich content. Remember at this time, search engines can not read graphics and pictures. So you are better off replacing these with text that includes your Keywords presented as Keyword phrases (Two or more keywords combined.)

The other reason your pages are loading slowly is a lack of bandwidth. You might want to think of bandwidth as the road to your website. When too much traffic tries to access your website at once it might not be wide enough to handle the volume. Lack of bandwidth slows down traffic to a crawl. You should consider upgrading your hosting plan. Usually, a few more dollars spent on more bandwidth will resolve this problem.

Remember, not everyone has a cable connection. So If your website is slow loading with cable just imagine how slow it is with broadband connection.

Are you ready to get up to speed?

We are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful links as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”

The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv. We also use the Top Commenter plugin as well!

It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.

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