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6 Web Site Content Tips to Attract Potential Customers Like a Magnet!

1. PROVIDE LOTS OF FREE CONTENT

The lure of the Internet is the promise of unlimited information--for free. Information on any and every subject known to man is accessible on the net.

If you want to attract potential customers to your Web site and you want to keep them coming back again and again, then provide lots of useful, interesting, or entertaining content for your visitors.

Of course, you want to make sure the type of content you provide on your Web site is directly related to your product or service. Otherwise, you'll just be providing free content without any potential for selling your products or services to your visitors.

2. UPDATE YOUR CONTENT OFTEN

If you want to get your prospect list and your customer list coming back to your site, your newsletter will help, but you have to give them a reason to come back.

That reason will be fresh and interesting content on your site. Putting new content on your site is a never ending process. It's not something you do once and then forget about it.

3. CHECK FOR DEAD LINKS

It's very frustrating for Web site visitors to click on a link and find a Page Not Found message. Double check your page links and make sure there are no dead ones.

4. ELIMINATE UNDER CONSTRUCTION PAGES

You see them all the time, and it is a real turn-off for Web site visitors.

Page Under Construction.

If your page is not ready for your visitors, then don't put a link to it.

Imagine opening a store and inviting people into one of your departments and then telling them that "Oh, uh, actually, this room is still under construction. Watch your head on the way out."

Many Search Engines won't list you if they find Page Under Construction messages.

Wait until your page is complete and then put it on your site.

5. AVOID BANNER MANIA

If all you have on your Web site are advertising banners and more advertising banners everywhere you look, people are not going to stay and they won't be coming back.

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Focus on what your visitors want -- interesting, fun, informative content.

One or two ad banners may be okay, just don't overdo it.

6. PROVIDE IN-DEPTH PRODUCT DESCRIPTION PAGES

We can't believe how many Web sites just provide the title of their products or services, one or two features, and a price, and think that people are going to then buy from that skimpy amount of information.

You have to remember that your Web site visitors don't have the luxury of entering your place of business, picking up and examining your product, and asking you lots of questions about its features and benefits.

The only thing they know on your Web site, is what you tell them. And when it comes to marketing, the more you tell, the more you sell!

The more expensive the product or service, the more you must tell.

The myth that you can sell products from your Web site with just a picture, name and price destroys a lot of Web businesses. Don't let it destroy yours.

About the Writer of this Article

WEB PICTURE QUALITY - knowledge over style over content

FORMATS bitmap, gif and jpeg. picture formats are commonly used.

I use jpeg format for converting most big pictures, and reduce the dots per inch (dpi) to 70 or below, for a web page.

To keep jpeg file sizes under 50k, I use 30 to 60 on the 'compression' scale for jpegs ( a scale runs from 2 as high quality, to 255 for low quality. )

Because many users employ a 256 colour palette, gif's are still much in use, but they only handle up to 256 colours. I use gifs for icons and small pics.

I use 24 bit colour bmp's for archiving (I use 300 dpi in case I might print them later), they can be used as a source for both gif and jpeg. -------------------------------- THE FORMATS -------------------------------- 1.bmp (bitmap) This is a pixel-mapped format. I scan pics at 300 dpi -this is about the maximum for a printer, but too good for the web.

300 dpi 10 by 8 inch pictures, take around 20 megabytes file size. 300 dpi bitmap scans are ideal for archiving, as the place to start processing.

NOTE - Netscape Browser does not appear to handle bmp's! ----------------

2.gif.

Gif's are useful for small pics like icons, and also come in 'animated' form useful for web sites.

Any scanned colour pic should be processed to 256 colour FIRST, then the dpi reduced to a maximum of 72dpi for screen use, then saved as the gif.

The basic colour palette options are (in PhotoPaint) : 'uniform palette' - keeps to colours that a 256 colour screen uses. This is good where multiple pics are on one webpage, because the browser might have only those colours to use, (someone correct me if that's wrong?)

'adaptive palette' and 'optimised palette' These both select the 'best' 256 colours from the picture itself -. Pics done with these options may not look well on pages with many pictures, as the browser page may be limited to 256 colours in total. A picture on its own on a page will look ok.

---------------- 3. jpegs (jpg)

The jpeg compression works directly from a 24 bit colour palette if necessary, whereas gifs are 256 colours maximum.

The standard compression method is type 4:4:4 on Photopaint. There is a scale 'compression' from 2 to 255. 2 is highest quality, biggest file, 255 is lowest quality, smallest file.

Here are the pic filesizes I got from different compression of a 70 dpi, 10 by 8 inch scan of a full colour (24bit) photograph:

Original bmp file .. appx 20mb jpg compression 2: 217kb jpg compression 15: 79kb jpg compression 30: 51kb ..reccommended jpg comression 50: 36kb ..reccommended jpg compression 150: 20kb.

Even the 20kb version was adequate for pictures say up to 5 by 3 inches on an 800 by 600 pixel screen resolution. 30 to 60kb seems a good trade off between file size and quality, but the file size you get relates to the picture composition. This would seem a good range for 'average' sized jpg web pictures without noticably losing quality.

----------------------------- 4. jpg versus gif gifs are good for icons and small pics - these can be in 16 colours which makes very small files.

jpeg is a compression facility and does not do so well with 16 colour or small pics, unless the compression number is increased. jpeg is really for compressing big pictures, lots of data, 24 bit colour.

With gif you do not get the options for palette selection and compression levels that jpeg gives.

I use gifs for icons and small pics, jpeg for the rest. ------------------------------

5.Black and white. For texts, scan textual material in B&W even if there are colour pics on the page. Separately scan the colour pics, in colour. Black and white is 1 bit not 8 bit - file sizes are much smaller than the equivalent in colour.

I have received text scans in colour - usually the black is grey rather than black. If 'ocr' software won't scan them because the resolution is too low (and it usually is!), I do the next best thing and convert the pic to B&W. The process usually involves darkening the colour image as much as possible, to increase the blackness of the characters.

Then convert to black and white using the 'threshhold' control. This threshhold is just the point at which the analyser decides it is a 'black' pixel square, not 'white'.

The threshhold range is 0 t0 255, in the range from 127 to 220 does the trick, dependent on the colour original, and the allowable extra black 'dots' you get if the value is set too high.

File sizes can reduce a text page from 100kb jpg to 20kb gif, just by going to b&w. Somehow I prefer gifs for black and white - I feel gifs are better suited to simpler jobs than jpeg.

About the Writer of this Article

Paul Hailey, hailey@clara.net and site http://www.hailey,clara.net

Promotional Content... It's the little things that count

Promotional content is the invisible content in the various recesses of a Web page. This type of content is used by search engines and directories to properly categorize your site and its pages during indexing.

--- Site Title ---

The title is the first thing a search engine displays as a result of a search. This makes it imperative that the title contains something readable and descriptive. Do not place a bunch of redundant terms in your title---make sure that the title can be read as a sentence. If the reader cannot understand the meaning of the title, then chances are they will not visit your site.

Once you create your page title, place it once within the header of the page using the <title>< itle> tags. Many marketers will place their title as many as five to ten times within the header of their page! This is good in that your relevance increases from the number of keywords; however, this repetitive approach is poor netiquette and is usually not accepted by most search engines.

--- META Tags ---

Meta Tags are information fields located in the header of a Web page. These tags store information about your browser, keywords, site description, and authoring information. The two main Meta Tags are "description" and "keywords." The "description" tag contains a short description of your page while the "keywords" tag contains a search keyword list for your page. These two Meta Tags are used by search engines to index your site and are critical elements of every Web page. When your site is indexed, users can enter search topics into the search engine to locate your site based on these two tags.

The Meta Tags should look like this in the <head> of your Web page:

<meta name="description" content="Information."> <meta name="keywords" content="Key,words,go,here">

To ensure the proper indexing of your page, you will have to devise a content scheme that targets numerous types of search engines. Note that different search engines will index your site in different ways, depending on the content. For instance, the following list provides information on the different ways that search engines can index your site:

* Some search engines look for an agreement between the description, keyword, title, and body.

* Some search engines use only the information located in the first line of the body of the page.

* Some search engines use a combination of the Meta Tags and the body content to weight your page based upon consistency.

Obviously, you would want to maintain a consistent content and style throughout your page. It is important, however, to learn how the different types of search engines work to have your page properly positioned in the lists.

--- Hidden Form Fields ---

Once you've developed the keywords for your site, you'll find that you still have over a dozen or so discarded phrases and words that are relevant to your page. Your Meta Tags are probably filled to the maximum 255 character limit and that the first line of your page body is a graphic and contains no pertinent text. Forcing any of these additional phrases and keywords into the page can get you rejected from several search engines for "keyword stuffing," described below.

These types of dilemmas are quite common for many Web page developers, but the solution is simple: a hidden form field. This form field is identical to every other form field (e.g. input fields, radio buttons, check boxes, etc.), however, it cannot be seen on the page in a browser.

The hidden form fields go in the body of the Web page and look like the following:

<form> <input type="hidden" value="Keyword,list,here"> </form>

Many search engines will recognize hidden form fields and use the information to index your site in the same manner as they would standard text in the body of your page. Some search engines ignore such fields, however, it is important to create pages that are acceptable across all search engines.

Hidden form fields can be used as the first line of text in your Web page and should reside in your page before any other content. The reason for this placement is that most search engines will only use the first 2,048 characters in a document. With hidden form fields, you can still get those extra keywords into your document without forfeiting space and layout.

--- Keywords ---

Keywords are one of the more important elements of a Web page since they describe the page to which they belong. The keywords that you select for your site must be relevant to the page as well as frequently used within the page's content.

Relevant keywords provide a better position in a search engine for your target market. For instance, if your site is specific to a new piece of financial software, it's important to stress the keywords that best describe the general and specific characteristics of the software. If someone performs a search for "automobile" and your site appears, it's certain that you will get a few users. The problem is that these users will do you no good since they are interested in another topic.

Obviously, if you're selling some product that's important to a wide range of markets, then nearly any choice of keywords would be relevant to your site. The point is that you want to ensure that you're bringing in only those users that are interested in what your site has to offer. In this way, you are maximizing your marketing effort.

The following rules may not make sense immediately, however, by following them, you're sure to increase your search engine position as well as the number of hits your site receives:

* Plural Form of Keywords When a user performs a search, it's unlikely that they will enter a search term that exactly matches the keywords you selected for your site. In some cases, the user will enter the singular form of a keyword and in others, they may enter the plural form. It's essential to capture both forms of a keyword to maximize your exposure!

* Repeat Important Keywords In the days of old, we could repeat a keyword numerous times to increase the relevancy of a site in a search engine. This repetition allowed sites to be placed higher in the search engine's list so that the user would see that site first. Today, search engines filter out those sites that over-repeat keywords. It's best to repeat the most important keywords no more than twice to increase your relevancy without being eliminated.

* Diversify Keyword Meanings Assume that every user has a different vocabulary--some users say "book" while others may say "publication" or "document." Each word refers to the same thing, however, unless your keywords are properly selected, you may only get one-third of your potential hits! When devising your keyword scheme, take into account the different forms of a given keyword. Create the keywords important to your site in such a way that, regardless of the search terms used by a user, your site will appear in the results list.

* Keyword Variations Consider the fact that users will not enter the keywords into a search engine the same way every time. For instance, some users may enter "real time software" while others may enter "real-time software" or "realtime software." Think about the keyword variations to ensure the capture of as many users as possible. Also, consider common misspellings of keywords. I know many intelligent individuals who tend to misspell certain words because of the phonetic spelling of the word---consider "eves" and "eaves." If a user consistently misspells such a word and you happen to sell plant hangers for under eaves, you might lose potential clients.

* Keyword Combinations and Phrases Some search engines will only take the first 255 characters of a keyword list, while others accept a nearly unlimited list of keywords. The problem is that you must target the 255-character limitation to be accepted by as many search engines as possible. One method to accommodate the keyword list limitation is to use phrases that best describe the page. For instance, I could use "ebook marketing" as a phrase that could be found with several combinations of search topics in a search engine. Another method is to ensure that the most relevant keywords are located at the front of the keyword list---even with a 255-character limitation, the most important keywords are accepted.

--- Keyword Selection ---

Your objective is to attract as many relevant visits to your site as possible. With that in mind, you will have to select keywords that are commonly used by users and that are relevant to your site.

You can easily attract users by entering such keywords as "naked women, adult, sex, ..." into your keyword list. Since these are some of the most searched-for keywords, I can guarantee that your site will get hits. Do you think that someone searching for pornography is going to spend very much time on your page? The problem here is that you will be attracting people who won't provide a relevant hit to your site. This tactic wastes bandwidth, time, and money.

--- Developing Keyword Lists ---

Using the information we've reviewed, let's look at creating a keyword list for a page. This is actually a more difficult task then creating the page itself since you must determine the best keywords that describe your page. To begin this task, let's ask ourselves: "how would people begin to search for a site like mine?"

Immediately, you could come up with about three-dozen keywords to place in a keyword list, however, many of the keywords that you think are relevant may turn out to be useless. Think about how you perform searches for certain information and apply that experience to the selection of keywords for your page. You'll find that the time taken to create a good keyword list will be most beneficial.

The best way to weed out useless keywords is to use the steps outlined in the following list. These steps are proven and have worked on several sites I've marketed.

* Create an exhaustive list of words that describe your site. * Review and eliminate words that are least descriptive or redundant. * Create plural versions of words without altering their form. * Consider and note misspelling variations. * Combine words into phases. * Eliminate duplicate phrases. * Eliminate phrases with words duplicated in other phrases. * Check for other words or phrases that can diversify the list. * Create a comma-delimited list of all phrases and remaining words. * Move and order the most relevant words to the front of the list. * Duplicate the four more important words and phrases twice. * Ask an associate to review the words and phrases. * Ask an associate to edit the list based on their search preferences. * Clean up and limit the list to 255 characters. * Perform searches using your keywords to locate other relevant sites. * Go to these sites to see how they created their keyword list.

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