The blog post below is a continuation in the series of articles on 'How I Started a Thriving Business While on Disability' and boy is my business ever THRIVING! Who ever said being a small business owner during a recession is bad is dead WRONG! The absolute best business to have during a recession is ‘Webprenuer’!

Top Do's and Don’ts when Building your Web Site

DO….

…build a web site with tons of content to please both the search engines and your readers!

…use short sentences.  The Internet is a fast-paced world and your visitors want to get your information fast. So edit, edit, edit! And remember misspelled words and poor grammar are a quick way to send your readers packing!

…use a consistent look and feel on your web site. A site should be informative and easy to maneuver.   And all of the pages should have a similar look and feel as well as the same navigation system throughout the entire site.

…keep your links current and accurate. How many times have you gone to a web site and clicked on a link that didn't work? Enough said.

…make sure visitors to your site can tell at a glance what your site is about.  Most people will leave a site in the first two seconds if they don’t think your site offers them what they are looking for. 

DON’T:

…fill your web site with useless links and irrelevant text as this diverts most of the traffic from the web site. Give them what they came for: INFORMATION.

…put a lot of slow-loading graphics on your page.  No matter how fancy and snazzy those graphics are, people are not going to stick around and wait for them to load.

…have pages that are “Under construction”.  If it is not complete, do not post the page. And what ever you do, don’t put one of those ‘under construction’ images on the page.

…try to mislead search engines.  Trying to mislead search engines by repeating keywords will turn against you. Search engines recognize many of these attempts and will react on it by giving your site a lower ranking or by not placing it at all.

…use pop-ups, force people to download a new browser and/or a special plug-in to see your site, or put music on your site.  Visitors find these really annoying.  Needless to say the less you annoy a visitor, the more likely he or she is to stay.

“…participate in link exchange programs or link farms. Google will ban sites that participate in link exchange programs, and many of the other major engines have also expressed their dislike of artificially created link popularity.”

Want to learn more about "me"? Check out my Bio Page, visit my web site, Healthy Holistic Living or you can listen to my interview with Brian Therrien at The Disability Digest.

Want to learn more about the tools that I used to build a successful on-line business? You can go to Site Build It or you can check out this video

If you have questions about how to start your own on-line business you can contact me via my Bio Page or you my web site.

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