Appealing to your first time customers is a must. The moment they first gain entry to your website, there can be some tiny, yet major mistakes that many webmasters forget to include that can provokingly make first time customers think otherwise of trying out your service or consider your advice. Although these tips can be rather simple, if you want to take your first time readers serious, then you have to be serious as well in terms of being a professional. On the web, the standard is high in terms of competition and professionally and the tiniest bit could make a customer think twice before trying out your service. I won’t really be explaining them why it is necessary simply because I think it is a bit self-explanatory, however, which ever is important to include is for whom to decide.
The 16 Tiny Tweaks
- Update your copyright year.
- Polish your best works.
- Fix dead links.
- Include more vocabulary
- Proper spacing where it is necessarily needed
- Have a ‘Privacy Policy’, a ‘Contact Us’ page, and a fully loaded ‘About’ page
- Distinguish your self from the rest of your competitors with what talent you have
- If your offering a service, keep ads at a minimum although it can be enticing
- Redesign those out of date ’submit’ buttons
- Have a slogan (Ex. Dumblittleman’s slogan is “Tips for Life”)
- Have a favicon for branding sake
- User friendly navigation bar or sidebar
- Appropriate color schemes for your theme
- Showcase testimonials
- Proofreading for spelling corrections and grammar errors.
- Improve your Wordpress webpage loading time by following these 22 Ways to Optimize Wordpress to Load Even Faster.
Nothing can turn down a first time customer as fast as when the first sentence they read on their front page says “there” instead of “their” or “your” instead of “you’re.” Although I’m reallying hinting on the tiniest speculations, competition is rough and it is a fact that the simplest things can really turn off a customer no matter how surprising it may seem. Follow these 16 easy tips and tweak your way to having a more professional looking webpage. Give your first time customers no reason to say no. The simplest things are what matters the most and can really stick out like a sore thumb. Preventing these practical errors from happening can be the difference from a customer being a buyer to being just a passer-byer. Emphasizing on the littlest things and building from the bottom up can readily prepare you to fundamentally become a better well known professional for what services you got to offer; that is, if you actually do what you proposed of course.
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thanks for the post | very useful | i really need help, i made post to be good, but subscriber and pageviews are very low. readers or visitors are not commenting, even thought their products featured in my blog
, really frustating
Sriganesh You need to create connection with Bloggers. Make commenting a habit and specially on few blogs .. Commenting on lots of blog is good idea, but that ways you wont be able to create relation with fellow bloggers. Always remember Blogging is more of giving rather than taking..
You are absolutely correct about the spelling and grammar. I cringe when I visit a blog written by someone with a four or six year degree and they do not know the difference between they’re, their and there, or you’re and your. It quickly makes me lose confidence. It’s simple, use spell check and proofread your work at least two times.
@Aaron I agree with you.. Soecially when I fall in the category of defaulter I know how bad it is for blogger. That’s why I suggest After the deadline wordpress plugin for proofreading
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/after-the-deadline-english-grammar-check-wordpress-plugin.html
P.s : English is not my first language and even I make some blunders in Grammar.
very important reasons for sure, the first impression is the last impression. Spelling mistakes can be avoided very easily, with ms word and Mozilla spelling checks etc. i guess there is no reason why one should publish posts with tones of errors in it, yet unfortunately accidental errors happens at an alarming rate
@Uttoran I agree with you.. Spelling errors are something which can be easily taken care by the tools you mentioned.. though grammar error are something which can be fixed only be practice.
Just a hint, our blog is named MoolaDays not MollaDays. I hope you can change that thanks! Also, I forgot to mention, changing that one line that says 15 tweaks when indeed it should be 16.
Thanks in regards.
Grammar and vocabulary makes the things worse if not used properly so one should be cautious while writing posts and have to proof read them before publishing them
Proof reading is the keyword here , and personally this is the one of the important thing which I usually miss.
I agree
I have to change my spelling issues . I write “their” as “there” very often and readers have complained about it sometimes .. I will change it now
Manish
Manish I know how it feels, I usually make mistakes in
There, their, i,I , (,) and spaces. Which are blunders and some time some loyal readers shoot me with emails regarding these mistakes and try to improve my vocab. And this is something which is in my new year resolution.. Learn English grammar as much as I can.
I will wait for the day when I will write a long article with 0 mistakes.
Same Same, Me too, my langugae is not good.
Professionalism is necessary for a well established foundation of blog.
Dinesh I second your Opinion.
Thank god.. I take care of these things… although I am unable to post regularly
@Amandeep Regaular Posting will help you a lot., specially this will set reader expectations and search engine love regular updated blog. Try to make a regular post frequency.. Make it 3-4 a week or if possible one post a day.