Want Your Website Visitors to Return?
As many of us do, we build a website, we go through the efforts
to attract visitors and we want them to return. But are you
doing that?
If your like me you have searched on every search engine any
possible way to advertise your website. I have filled out
submission forms till my fingers have cramped up. I have looked
at link farms, long boring articles on SEO, I even have articles
sent to my inbox everyday in hopes of finding the next "new" way
to attract visitors.
So now you have designed your site and your thinking it looks
great. "Who wouldn't want to visit my site?" You have all your
affiliates set up, you have your ads (by Yahoo, Google,...) and
your ready to start making some money. You have your exchange
links set up, you listed on every toplist you can think of and
you even paid money on some Pay Per Click program in hopes of
visitors. And you even have your tracking program in place so
you can tell who is hitting your site and where they are hitting
from. You even know what pages on your site are popular.
So why are you only getting first time visitors? Why do they
only visit one page? Why are they not returning?
One answer - pop ups.
If you belong to one of those exchange link programs that
provides pop up, pop unders,(pop up under the main page) or exit
pops (as I call them, when you close your site this page
appears) then you could be chasing away your visitors.
I consider my self to be an above normal Internet user. I have
several websites that I have created and between them I have
thousands of pages in cyber world. I know when I click on a ad
or link and all of a sudden pop ups appear out of now where I
slightly freak "like whoa!" and once I clear my screen I make a
mental note not to click that button again. Imagine how a novice
surfer is going to feel. They may never click on an ad again.
That kinda defeats all of us using ads. You will get hits added
to your counter but they wont be return hits.
In no way am I bashing these programs. But like any good web
designer, know what tools are in your toolbox and know how and
when to use them.