How to Scare Away Visitors

Ever wonder what the quickest way to tick off your visitors is? Hostway’s national Pet Peeve survey assembled a list of 15 irritating website practices:

1. Pop-up ads
2. Requiring the installation of extra software to view the site
3. Dead links
4. Requirement to register and log-on before viewing the website
5. Slow-loading pages
6. Content that is out of date
7. Confusing navigation - hard-to-find pages, too many clicks
8. Ineffective site search tool
9. No contact information available (web form only) 10. Inability to use the browser’s back button
11. Overdone sites - unnecessary splash/flash screens or animation
12. Text that moves
13. Music or other audio that plays automatically 14. Poor appearance - colors, fonts, format
15. Opening a new window for a link

Pretty intersting stuff. You can read the full article here. I am avoiding all of the above on all of my sites. To me my visitors are what’s keeping me in business. Keep them happy!

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