Building a well functional and attractive site to compete with the competitors is a challenge. But you can win the race by doing some of the tricks on your site.
Here are some of the tips which will be given to you, be sure that your site follows all of them:
- Go to full throttle, advertise your site on social media, and use every weapon you can. Start a poll or some kind of contest to get visitor attention.
- If there is any “under construction” or “coming soon” note on your site, remove that.
- Custom error pages are easy to make and they help a lot to gain visitor attention, have you ever seen Google error page? That makes a positive impression on the visitor. So, you make your own, for this purpose use tutorials from web.
- If your site is relatively big and it is not possible to navigate to all pages from a single page then it is better for your site if you add site maps to your site. It will also help site to visible on search engines.
- Regularly check links on the site, remove dead or in active links as soon as possible. It is also better to update links with fresh ones.
- It is important to add user friendly menu and navigation. Sometime there are lot and lot of features on a site to get the visitor’s attention, but they missed navigation.
- Don’t add visitor counter to your site, sometime it helps but mostly it put negative impression on visitors.
Beside the tips we already discussed, there are some important thing you should consider about site.
Some Tips about Hosting
- Use best hosting service, the server and hosting speed varies from host to host. So, choose the best available option. It is obvious that anyone doesn’t want to put his/her visitors in unnecessary wait.
Check your site performance on regular bases. search and observe internet, sales letter writing, different topics and forums to make your e-commerce site better. Monitor your site activity in a time interval and then observe again after changes.