How does your website stack up?
Here are a few points I've come up with to consider when evaluating the quality of your website and the message you're sending to your site visitors. Your site visitor will make their decision about the quality of your business and your website within a few moments of landing on your website.
- Does your site over focus on "how wonderful we are as a company" but under focus on solving the issues or problems of the site visitor? Always consider the core motivations of the visitor to your site and align your products or services to be the solution to their quest.
- Are the navigational elements to your website consistent? A well designed site should be clear in areas of navigational menus and instructional directives.
- Does your website have relevant well phrased page titles on every page. For search engine optimization reasons each website page should have a distinquishing webpage title.
- Don't use ALL CAPS anywhere in your website. Poor etiquette in websites or any document.
- Fuzzy, poor quality and low resolution graphic images on your website. Using a photo editor such as Photoshop is an important tool for any qualified web designer. As they say "A picture is worth a thousand words" just make sure those thousand words are positive rather than negitive.
- Flash Introductions to websites. Who has the time.... You want to encourage site traffic and having them endure your Flash animation all the while searching for the "skip this page" link is a detriment to encouraging repeat traffic. Remember the site visitor's needs are of primary importance and this trumps a flash video.
- Write the content for your website for humans but also keep in mind the robot/googlebot visits than analyze and index your content for keywords. (avoid pronouns,,,use proper nouns)
- Static Content - Keep it fresh and change the content regularly - Helps encourage repeat traffic and assists with data indexing from Google, Yahoo and others.
- Make sure your website is submitted to the major search engines on a regular basis. A site map can also assist with submitting content and getting it indexed by the search engines.
- With attention to content writing, navigation, image quality, website usability, website findability on Internet seaches, and proper keyword optimization your site can be well prepared to represent your business in the most positive light.
For additional information and to discuss the message your website is sending to your clients please contact CyberTek Engineering.



