Tip 2. Focus on your content marketing strategy
Place emphasis on the small details so that your website loads fast, is secured and consistent. Paying attention to these smaller issues is important, but make sure you don’t lose sight of your marketing strategy and the role of your website within it. Ultimately, your website maintenance costs should be justified against your business strategy.
One of the most common things that I personal see is that companies have too much information on their site’s homepage. While your managerial structure and company history info-graphics might be interesting to you, your customers are unlikely to be as interested as you are. Your website visitors are only interested to see if your products and/or services can help them, therefore, that’s what your site should be focused on.
Great website design starts with a robust strategy. Identify what you want your website to achieve, and who you are talking to, and then focus your content tightly on this objective. Not only does this make website navigation easier for the customer, but it also allows you to cut down the cost of your website when setting up an online store because you no longer need to pay for endless pages that your viewers don’t care about anyway.
Tip 3. Optimize page speed
Another important part of your website design is how fast it loads. Keep you visitor on your website for as long as possible. We are too impatient when it comes to browsing any website. If your website does not load (gets displayed on the reader’s screen) in a few seconds, they will just click “next”.
An extra five to ten seconds of “load” time and your bounce rate increases exponentially by greater than 20%. No meaningful interaction, and they are on to the next website on their browser.
In other words, have a responsive design. White space around your content, deleting unnecessary content and using high-quality images to load correctly will improves your website speed. The analytics in your dashboard will help you to see what needs fine-tuning. However, Google, also offers a free service that helps you to track and improve the loading time and speed.
In other coming posts that will follow in the coming days, I will share with you more tips that I hope will help you improve your website. My intentions are to have you realize that the common internet browser may (initially) not be in interested in how wonderful you are. If they see that what you offer can solve or enhance what they need, then, they will do a deep dive into your business. They may follow-up with a phone call or an email and the rest is up to you to live up to your potential in the client/customer’s eyes.
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