Top Six Ways To Make Your Visitors To Hate YOU!

By Matt Colyer
Posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004

We will take a look at why your visitors may hate you maybe already do! There are many things that make YOUR visitors dislike you, but we take a look the top sex things that make your click the back button on their browser.

1. Broken links

Hyperlinks that do nothing when clicked are the pain in the butt for any surfer. Test your site often to ensure that all links work as they should.

2. Not putting your contact info on your site

If you are selling a product you must have a way your visitors can contact you! When visitors are thinking about buying a product they like to know where to contact you if there are problems with it and most won't even buy from a site that has no contact information.

3. Outdated information

It's OK to have old information that's about history (Since it likely won't change), but when it's about a baseball team or about an event that's going on all the time, outdated information is a no no.

4. Slow loading times

If you own a professional sites, you must have a normal speed server, if not and your pages are slow you will lose your visitors. Also make sure you haven't packed them with too many images and flash.

5. Bad templates

Templates are one of the most powerful tools a web site has, not only does it tell the surfer how hard you or they worked on your site, but how professional your company is. Don't use different colors for every image or use text that's to small for visitors to see.

6. Broken links

Hyperlinks that do nothing when clicked are the pain in the butt for any surfer. Test your site often to ensure that all links work as they should.

About The Author
Matt Colyer is the owner of the Marhen.com Network and is a part-time SEO. He also is a php, CGI and ASP developer.