Successful websites are meticulously thought about, carefully planned and ergonomically executed (designed to minimize physical effort and discomfort, and hence maximize efficiency).
If you are setting out on a new journey of turning web entrepreneur, it is going to be both a daunting as well as a challenging task. Most people wonder, what makes some websites score over others. This question is both complex and simple at the same time.
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iso 9000 - Jul 15, 2011
If you are setting out on a new journey of turning web entrepreneur, it is going to be both a daunting as well as a challenging task. Most people wonder, what makes some websites score over others. This question is both complex and simple at the same time.
In this knol, we are trying to outline the 10 most important charactersitics of successful websites. The attempt is to focus on the most pertinent features, which have made them successful.
#1 Great Product, Service or Content
This seems obvious, but is the most important reason for your sites ratings. Amazon is a case in question. It decided to sell books on its site. The idea is popular and people love buying books from the web. It adds book page previews, user reviews and wish lists. This makes it extremely popular among users. It offers products of sellers, most user’s want or need.
Try to think of a great product, service or content idea. Craig’s list offers a great classified service to its users with choice of geography. The Microsoft website provides great content to its end users for its products and services.
#2 Professional Website Design
An important charactersitic of successful websites, is a professionally designed website. Treat your website like a project. Number the pages, categorize them, design pages with images, logos, stickers, buttons and icons. This makes pages more attractive to users. Add a sitemap to make it easy to navigate.
Use flash banners or images for new offers or products. Making things flashy and attractive makes visitor’s come back for more.
#3 Offer New Products and Services
One of the big draws of a successful website is how often it offers new products or services or innovates itself. User’s love new offers. Pampering user’s needs is a prime reason for your site to be in the ‘A’ list.
Good and reliable products and offers will always make user’s comeback for more. Making this, a regular exercise, prevents your site from being boring and monotonous.
#4 Get Listed on the Search Engines
Whatever your great product, if its not listed on search engines, it might as well be never known to the world. Go for a paid listing service and subscribe to weekly or monthly submissions, depending upon your frequency of page or site updations.
Google, Yahoo, MSN, ExactSeek, ScrubTheWeb. Try for as many of them as possible.
Try to get the best keywords for this service. Your choice of keywords will decide, how your ads appear on their network. If required, go for an Adwords Professional’s help, for setting up your ads and to get the best exposures on their network.
#6 Offer an Ezine or a Newsletter
Offer an ezine or newsletter on your website to your users. Subscription to this ezine will help you connect regularly to your users. This will also double up as your mailing list and also to inform user’s about site updates and new offers.
#7 Start a Blog
Start a blog about your website and post articles regularly. User’s like to know, what you are thinking, getting latest updates, and to comment on your posts.
#8 Professional Ad Copy
Try to get a professional ad copy for your website from a professional agency or start learning how to write them. This will be required whenever, you need to post ads for new offers and products on your site.
#9 Internal and External Links
Create as many articles, blogs, content pages, RSS feeds for your website. Users have great interest in articles, blogs and RSS feeds.
Get your website listed in directories, classifieds, social media-Facebook, myspace, twitter. This will ensure, people get to know your site better.
#10 Optimize Your Website
Go for website optimization. Write proper meta’s for keywords, description, title, and robot for web pages. This ensures search engines index your site regularly.
Write proper HTML tags for your pages. Avoid too much code for optimized pages. Register for a web monitoring service, which notifies you, whenever your site is offline. Try to subscribe to a hosting company, which provides great support.
Conclusion:
Making a website successful is a daunting task. Offering a great product or service is important, but it is also important to present new products and offers regularly to users to keep your site interesting. Designing your site professionally ensures easy navigation and bookmarking of your web pages by users.
List your site on search engines and Google Adwords. Offer blogs, ezines and professional ad copy for new products & offers.
Try to write articles and content pages, and list them as internal links. List your website on directories, social media and classifieds.
Optmize your website and web pages. Write proper meta’s, web page titles and urls. Subscribe to a reliable web monitoring and web hosting service.
#1 Great Product, Service or Content
This seems obvious, but is the most important reason for your sites ratings. Amazon is a case in question. It decided to sell books on its site. The idea is popular and people love buying books from the web. It adds book page previews, user reviews and wish lists. This makes it extremely popular among users. It offers products of sellers, most user’s want or need.
Try to think of a great product, service or content idea. Craig’s list offers a great classified service to its users with choice of geography. The Microsoft website provides great content to its end users for its products and services.
#2 Professional Website Design
An important charactersitic of successful websites, is a professionally designed website. Treat your website like a project. Number the pages, categorize them, design pages with images, logos, stickers, buttons and icons. This makes pages more attractive to users. Add a sitemap to make it easy to navigate.
Use flash banners or images for new offers or products. Making things flashy and attractive makes visitor’s come back for more.
#3 Offer New Products and Services
One of the big draws of a successful website is how often it offers new products or services or innovates itself. User’s love new offers. Pampering user’s needs is a prime reason for your site to be in the ‘A’ list.
Good and reliable products and offers will always make user’s comeback for more. Making this, a regular exercise, prevents your site from being boring and monotonous.
#4 Get Listed on the Search Engines
Whatever your great product, if its not listed on search engines, it might as well be never known to the world. Go for a paid listing service and subscribe to weekly or monthly submissions, depending upon your frequency of page or site updations.
Google, Yahoo, MSN, ExactSeek, ScrubTheWeb. Try for as many of them as possible.
#5 Get Your Website Ads Listed on Google Adwords
Google Adwords is one of the best ways to advertise your site on other sites. Google Adsense is listed on more sites, than any other ad network. The pricing starts at $0.01, hence it is cheaper than most services.Try to get the best keywords for this service. Your choice of keywords will decide, how your ads appear on their network. If required, go for an Adwords Professional’s help, for setting up your ads and to get the best exposures on their network.
#6 Offer an Ezine or a Newsletter
Offer an ezine or newsletter on your website to your users. Subscription to this ezine will help you connect regularly to your users. This will also double up as your mailing list and also to inform user’s about site updates and new offers.
#7 Start a Blog
Start a blog about your website and post articles regularly. User’s like to know, what you are thinking, getting latest updates, and to comment on your posts.
#8 Professional Ad Copy
Try to get a professional ad copy for your website from a professional agency or start learning how to write them. This will be required whenever, you need to post ads for new offers and products on your site.
#9 Internal and External Links
Create as many articles, blogs, content pages, RSS feeds for your website. Users have great interest in articles, blogs and RSS feeds.
Get your website listed in directories, classifieds, social media-Facebook, myspace, twitter. This will ensure, people get to know your site better.
#10 Optimize Your Website
Go for website optimization. Write proper meta’s for keywords, description, title, and robot for web pages. This ensures search engines index your site regularly.
Write proper HTML tags for your pages. Avoid too much code for optimized pages. Register for a web monitoring service, which notifies you, whenever your site is offline. Try to subscribe to a hosting company, which provides great support.
Conclusion:
Making a website successful is a daunting task. Offering a great product or service is important, but it is also important to present new products and offers regularly to users to keep your site interesting. Designing your site professionally ensures easy navigation and bookmarking of your web pages by users.
List your site on search engines and Google Adwords. Offer blogs, ezines and professional ad copy for new products & offers.
Try to write articles and content pages, and list them as internal links. List your website on directories, social media and classifieds.
Optmize your website and web pages. Write proper meta’s, web page titles and urls. Subscribe to a reliable web monitoring and web hosting service.
iso 9000
Hey, very nice site. I came across this on Google, and I am stoked that I did. I will definately be coming back here more often. Wish I could add to the conversation and bring a bit more to the table, but am just taking in as much info as I can at the moment.http://www.qmsconsultants.com/ISO-9000%20ISO-9001.html
iso 9000 - Jul 15, 2011
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