subject: 3 Important Steps To Take If Your Website Does Not Convert Sales [print this page] If you have spent quite a sum of money to design your website with all great features and input with great content still do not making any positive sales then you need to go through the action list here before you spend further time and money to promote your website.
Point No.1 How many website directories youve submitted ? You got to submit it as many as possible. These are the good and recommended directories that you should consider as these are quality directories that can bring good result in the search engine. There are , Alexa, AltaVista, All The Web, AOL, Ask, Bing, DMOZ, ExactSeek, Excite, GigaBlast, Google, Hotbot, Kanoodle, Live, Lycos, LookSmart, MSN, National Directory, Netscape, SearchIt, WebCrawler, What-U-Seek and Yahoo. It was recommended to use manual submission rather than automated system submission which you can find in the market. There is no harm using the automated system but just to avoid your site being banned as some of the system will create duplicate submission. One thing you must know that that every site that is submitted with take weeks to be indexed.
Point No.2 Have you try to look or verify your own site in different computer? I think this is a good practice each time you have completed a task on your site, try using a different computer other than the one you created the site in is a good way to check the output. You will be seeing what your customers are seeing. Stand in position of a viewer or customer and not the owner of the website and you will see mistakes on your website that you never know. It happens even to the best web-designers on occasion. It's easy to fix when you isolate the problem and this can be done by simply doing a quick quality check using a different computer and testing your site with different browsers. Browser Shots offers a free service in which you can submit a site. They will make screenshots of your web design using different operating systems and browsers and will reply you in minutes after submission.
Point No.3 What if your site looks good and works well ? If you have a website that is properly designed and well submitted to the website directories, you will certainly need to install traffic analytical tools to keep track of your traffic and visitors source. You may have the traffic but not targeted at the right demographic. To compile statistics and track visitors to your site Google offers a free tool you can use at http://www.google.com/analytics. You can use this service by simply following the directions and adding a snippet of hidden code to your site all free. Track your traffic is one of the way to success in online business.
Checking off these three items on your to-do list will put you miles above your competition and greatly increase your earning potential without you needing to spend more money or investing valuable hours of work to see results.
