Sell More with a User-Friendly Web Site

Speed up your web site, make it easy for prospective buyers to find what they are looking for, make your web pages easy to read, and make it easy to contact you.

Follow these tips to make your web site user friendly and increase sales.

• Speed up your web site. Your web sites speed has a significant impact on user loyalty. A slow web site will cost you sales. Visitors wont wait more than10 seconds for your web pages to load. Make your home page fast loading to keep visitors at your site.

• Make it easy for prospective buyers to find what they are looking for. Easy navigation is essential to keeping prospective buyers at your site. Provide plenty of links on your home page, giving visitors an overview of your web sites content and choices. Provide links to your home page and main sections such as order form, contact page, products, and articles on every page. Visitors may not visit your pages in the sequence you would like them to. Provide a site map (table of contents)
if your site has more than twenty pages. Make sure all links are working.

• Make your web pages easy to read. An easy-to-read, professionally-designed web site can maximize your sales. Use color and spacing to
make your web pages easy to read. Dark text on a light background is easy to read. A hint of color softens the screen. Avoid text on dark and busy backgrounds. Break up your sales copy into short, easy-to-read sections and use subheadings to highlight benefits. Split up long pages into several pages.

• Keep pages short. Visitors should be able to see the important
information, especially on your home page, without scrolling down. Studies show that more than half of the web surfers never scroll down past the first screen of information, so provide your benefits, site description, and USP at the top of the page.

• Make it easy to contact you. Provide your phone number, email address, and URL (web address) on every page. This will make it easier for people to go back to your web site.

A user-friendly site will sell more. Make your web site user friendly to keep visitors at your site, read your sales materials and buy from you.

Go to http://www.profitablewebstrategies.com for more details on how to make your site easy to read, easy to navigate, and fast loading.

Leva Duell Copyright: © 2003

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This article is excerpted from Inside Secrets to Developing a Profitable Web Site.
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