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10 tips to make your visitors come back

Article written by Johanns Christophe

Here are some tips to make your visitors come back day after day, week after week, month after month.

1. Make design that is easy to navigate, but it must still be attractive to the eye. New media, such as Flash4, makes this possible. You could add a dHTML ticker or a Flash4 animation, but you could also make an entire site with it.
2. Don't push to many text and/or images into one page. Visitors will not wait 20 seconds before they can finally see the page. You can add some graphics, but be sure to compress them as a JPG or a GIF.
3. Check your spelling! If there is one thing you really have to pay attention to is your spelling. If you don't check it and there are mistakes, visitors will get confused and the chance is big that they won't understand it and leave.
4. Check your links! Broken links are very confusing. It will make visitors leave because if they click on a link, they are interested. If they don't get what they wanted, they will immediately leave the site and browse to another site.
5. Add a mailing list to your site. You can send than messages about updates or something else to your subscribers and they will visit your site (again) if they have seen something that they find interesting.
6. Get a short url or a domain. People just hate to type names such as http://www.provider.com/community/street/hello.html. At cjb.net you can get a free redirection url with email and some more features.
7. Add some interactivity! Give your visitors the chance to send their comments, critiques or questions to you. This way, you can make a site that is "made" by the visitors. And if they like it they come back!
8. Update your site daily, or at least once a week. Visitors will know than that the information they get is "fresh" and will check back later to see what's new.
9. Add an email service to your site. Members will have to come to your site to log into their account. You can do this easily if you have your own domain (BigMailBox, Everyone.net), but it is also possible if you don't (ZZN).
10. Last but not least: if you're searching for web space or a domain host, first contact people who have experience with it. They can tell you which service is reliable and has fast servers. If you're site is regularly unavailable, some people might think it doesn't exist anymore. With these things you will come far! Not only they make your site better, they bring you visitors!

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