eBay: The First 10 Years 2 EBay Income Possibilities. 3 What You Need to Know BEFORE You Get Started on eBay 4 A Beginner’s Guide to the Different eBay Auction Types. 5 Staying Out of Trouble with eBay’s Listing Policies 6 Learning the eBay “Lingo”. 7 5 Simple Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction 8 An eBay Seller’s Checklist. 9 What’s Your eBay Reputation Really Worth? 10 Is the eBay Customer Always Right?
When
it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every
minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose.
Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your
website performs well.
1) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a
website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like
"welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that --
pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a
reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site
up front without the splash page. 2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements
Even
the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner
advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate.
Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate
links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to
buy instead of being pushed to buy.
3) Have a simple and clear navigation
You
have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so
that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from
complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your
visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.
4) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When
visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to
make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment.
That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate
to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because
confusion means "abandon ship"!
5) Avoid using audio on your site
If
your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your
content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio
looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make
sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would
work fine.