21 Ways to Drive Visitors Away from Your Website

[hastings]

21 Ways to Drive Visitors Away from Your Website

A visitor who has come back to your site several times is well on his way toward picking up the phone or sending an email, and beginning a business friendship with you. Here are some ways to stop them from doing just that.

I would recommend reading this for all you webmasters out there!


http://www.brokeragentnews.com/news/...174696193.html

[BrandonSternfield]

They forgot to make your site look like a geocities site from 10 years ago, make sure to put annoying animated .gifs everywhere too. The cuter the better.

[hastings]

lol Yeah I dont get it.

NewHomeConnection[dot]com- A Colorado Springs Based Real Estate agent. Take a look at their site it does pretty much everything stated in that article yet they still get more hits and are ranked higher on google.... WHAT THE HECK?!

[BrandonSternfield]

I'd like to sue them for the damage my retinas just received.

I've come to understand that like any field where you have the little guy and the corporate guy, little guy will lose more often then not.

This is just an example that if you have an unlimited budget to buy links, no matter how ugly your site, or how dysfunctional it is, it can still get top rank.

[kid disco]

Well... the article was more about improving the user experience and less about optimizing for Google. Though, the two go hand-in-hand in some respect, various factors are weighted differently.

At a quick glance, it appears as though age and link profile are the big factors driving up newhomeconnection. Imagine the results if the site improved on it's usability factors.

[Boston Condo Guy]

That is good, I like that. They forgot...blinking text.

Not that the following site is relevant to real estate, but I thought it was appropriate: We went out to dinner Friday night, Asian, and I go to check out their website, and they've got this blinking text that I can't even keep up with...food was good, I got the typhoon spicy chicken - maybe I could have talked with the owner and negotiated some website assistance for a couple of more rolls.

typhoonboston [dot] com/home.htm

[Eric Blackwell]

Love the Eagles reset. I am a fan...never thought of calling the good ole back button disable the "Hotel California Effect..." grin

Eric

[kid disco]

Check out the World's Worst Website:

http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/

[Eric Blackwell]

Hilarious...Didn't have my speakers on to see if it was playing any music, but it had the rest of them nailed!

Things that you are not likely to see on REW's dev server...(grin)

Eric

[judyo]

OMG, I think that typhoonboston site just sparked a migraine!