Stop Losing Valuable Traffic To Your Website
Posted by Derek Robson on Monday, June 14, 2010
Be creative when thinking of ways to make your product or service more attractive to your target market. For example, the New York Times increased the type size and spacing in its editorials, to make them easier for aging baby boomers to read.
If you can’t afford a fax machine, then consider signing up for your own, free virtual fax number. You can get your own online fax number that will send your faxes directly to your e-mail inbox. If you travel a lot and need to receive faxes from the office, this service is a godsend.
You may be losing valuable traffic and not even know it! Here's something you may never have thought of before: If I were to type your domain name -- http://www.yourdomain.com -- into my web browser, without the "WWW" so it looked like this: http://yourdomain.com … would I be immediately sent to your site, or would I receive a “Page Not Found” error? Don't be too quick to answer. Think about it. Have you tried this before?
While most web hosts and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are now set up to accept both, some are not! Even Google Webmaster tools requires you to insert both variations and to select the primary link that you want to use. This means that visitors who drop the "WWW" and simply type “yourdomain.com” into their browsers, may be getting an error message… and you may be losing valuable traffic!
If you try this and find that "yourdomain.com" doesn't work, contact your web host, or ISP and request that they make the necessary changes. It's a quick 5-minute fix for them… and everyone they service will benefit.
Some may try to charge you a fee for this change, but I would argue that this is a common service, provided by the majority of ISPs and web hosts today. If they want to remain competitive and keep your business, then you shouldn't have to pay.
However, if they still insist on charging you, and the fee is minimal, then you should pay it. After all, you're probably losing valuable traffic, that will more than pay for this expense in the long run.
It's such a minor problem… but it could be losing you major traffic! So check into this today!
Another thing to consider, is to capitalize on any page errors. If a potential customer gets an error message “Page not found” you have lost that business. Place an ad, or link there, to another product, or free offer, to hang on to that customer. Or, of course have a link on the error page, which redirects the lost visitor straight back to your website!
Always check your links. If you insert links into e-mails, or auto-responders, try them out to ensure they work. People are impatient and if a link does not work, they will not look for the reason – they will simply delete and forget.
Think for a moment what annoys you online. Think which regular problems you encounter from other sites, links and redirects. How do you think your traffic feels about you?
We all work so hard to get traffic. The single most important and most difficult thing to do online, is to get quality traffic to see your sales links. If decent, hungry traffic went out of their way to find us, we would all be millionaires, but that is not the case. Make sure you don’t lose them before they even get to see your offer!
Getting traffic is imperative for your success. You really need to build your list, using a system. Article marketing is an excellent way. Find out more about the Article Profit Formula by clicking here, or copy this link into your browser: http://www.linkbrander.com/lb/7429
How So, the question is how much money are you leaving on the table, because you do not know the highly potent Article Marketing strategies? You need to get the Article Profit Formula! The Article Profit Formula can give you more traffic, more sales and quickly establish your expert status within your niche market. Get a free trial today.
Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering others, particularly fellow South Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. For informative articles on making money, setting up a simple business that actually makes money, Internet marketing, South African online business, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, the law of attraction, rugby and other general topics, such as gardening and fitness, visit Derek and Sally at their blog, part of Dersalsites, or copy this link to your browser: http://dersalsites.com/our-blog
If you can’t afford a fax machine, then consider signing up for your own, free virtual fax number. You can get your own online fax number that will send your faxes directly to your e-mail inbox. If you travel a lot and need to receive faxes from the office, this service is a godsend.
You may be losing valuable traffic and not even know it! Here's something you may never have thought of before: If I were to type your domain name -- http://www.yourdomain.com -- into my web browser, without the "WWW" so it looked like this: http://yourdomain.com … would I be immediately sent to your site, or would I receive a “Page Not Found” error? Don't be too quick to answer. Think about it. Have you tried this before?
While most web hosts and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are now set up to accept both, some are not! Even Google Webmaster tools requires you to insert both variations and to select the primary link that you want to use. This means that visitors who drop the "WWW" and simply type “yourdomain.com” into their browsers, may be getting an error message… and you may be losing valuable traffic!
If you try this and find that "yourdomain.com" doesn't work, contact your web host, or ISP and request that they make the necessary changes. It's a quick 5-minute fix for them… and everyone they service will benefit.
Some may try to charge you a fee for this change, but I would argue that this is a common service, provided by the majority of ISPs and web hosts today. If they want to remain competitive and keep your business, then you shouldn't have to pay.
However, if they still insist on charging you, and the fee is minimal, then you should pay it. After all, you're probably losing valuable traffic, that will more than pay for this expense in the long run.
It's such a minor problem… but it could be losing you major traffic! So check into this today!
Another thing to consider, is to capitalize on any page errors. If a potential customer gets an error message “Page not found” you have lost that business. Place an ad, or link there, to another product, or free offer, to hang on to that customer. Or, of course have a link on the error page, which redirects the lost visitor straight back to your website!
Always check your links. If you insert links into e-mails, or auto-responders, try them out to ensure they work. People are impatient and if a link does not work, they will not look for the reason – they will simply delete and forget.
Think for a moment what annoys you online. Think which regular problems you encounter from other sites, links and redirects. How do you think your traffic feels about you?
We all work so hard to get traffic. The single most important and most difficult thing to do online, is to get quality traffic to see your sales links. If decent, hungry traffic went out of their way to find us, we would all be millionaires, but that is not the case. Make sure you don’t lose them before they even get to see your offer!
Getting traffic is imperative for your success. You really need to build your list, using a system. Article marketing is an excellent way. Find out more about the Article Profit Formula by clicking here, or copy this link into your browser: http://www.linkbrander.com/lb/7429
How So, the question is how much money are you leaving on the table, because you do not know the highly potent Article Marketing strategies? You need to get the Article Profit Formula! The Article Profit Formula can give you more traffic, more sales and quickly establish your expert status within your niche market. Get a free trial today.
Derek Robson has been a successful Internet marketer since 2003. He has a vision of empowering others, particularly fellow South Africans and other non U.S folk, to have equal opportunity and success on the internet, by finding solutions to the many obstacles facing them. He is a syndicated article writer. He and his wife Sally, have started a string of sites, resources, courses and articles, as part of Dersalsites. For informative articles on making money, setting up a simple business that actually makes money, Internet marketing, South African online business, list building, affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, seo, the law of attraction, rugby and other general topics, such as gardening and fitness, visit Derek and Sally at their blog, part of Dersalsites, or copy this link to your browser: http://dersalsites.com/our-blog
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