7 Vital Tips To Keep Website Fresh

On July 20, 2009, in Tips & Tricks, by Amir Al Take

Sometimes it is sad to see how some websites or blogs are not updated and kept as fresh. This is because owner might not have enough time or don’t care so much about their website/blog or what their visitors think about their website.

In order to help those kind of people we decided to give 7 vital tips to keep website or blog fresh and updated.

Content

Adding informative and useful content is very vital for websites. You need to write good content and not any kind of content. Good content contains useful and beneficial information to readers. It is easy to read, understand and keeping readers to be interested most of the time. It is not long neither small. Good content’s amount of words is very difficult to estimate because it depends about subject or field. One good sign of good content is that it keeps bringing visitors back to your website or blog. Make sure you don’t have misspellings. If you have it on your content fix them. Don’t underestimate the importance of good content.

Website Design

Website design should be simple and clean looking. It should be easy to navigate and does not confuse visitor with all kind of fancy graphics and unnecessary links. You have two options to make website design, either you make it yourself or you can outsource professional to do it for you. If you decide to make it yourself then when you are designing your website put yourself on visitor sight. Think and ask yourself as a visitor what you should do in order to make your website to be simple and clean. Unfortunately lots of people who are designing own self their website they underestimate thinking in that way and usually neglect it. Pay attention on simple and clean website design it will affect more than you think.

Newsletter (RSS Feed)

Nowadays more and more people are in under influence of newsletter. Newsletter is very important thing that keeps your visitors to come back to your website. Good website has good newsletter which has useful and important news. This kind of newsletter should be sent regularly. Sending a newsletter one or two times a month is enough. If you decide to send newsletter more than one or two times a month to subscribers you might lose some of subscribers because sending many newsletters a month might annoy them and especially when it doesn’t look like professional newsletter. Newsletter is very good way and probably best way to keep visitors updated.

Pictures

It is said that pictures are worth more than 1000 words. It is quiet true. For example adding a picture in website for specific page and content will ease lots of understanding of visitor. It is human brain that can interpret pictures easily and you don’t have to spend lots of time to understand some picture unless it is very complex. Main idea is to have simple and informative pictures. Also they will give professional look. You should add only pictures that you have rights for.

Providing Necessary Pages

When adding pages below you are going to grow your trust with visitors. For example when speaking about visitor’s information collection i.e. joining to your mailing list, you are going to have trust by telling to visitors that all your information is going to be kept in safe and not shared with other parties. Of course you have to indicate that in privacy policy page and you have also to mean it. Pages to be added to your website or blog are:

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap

Commentary Possibility and Forums

If you add commentary possibility to your website or blog your visitors are going to be more interested about your website or blog. Reason for this is that you show for them that you are listening them and you will give opportunity to express their opinions and concerns about some issue. At the same time good thing is that other people who are visiting your website or blog can help each other by commenting. For websites it is recommended to use forums and for blogs commentary possibility.

Meta Tags

What are meta tags? For you who don’t know what are meta tags here’s brief explanation. Meta tags are tags of HTML language. Meta tags are added to source code of website. They must be added under <head> tag. With Meta tags you can define for example description and keywords of your website. They are very easy to use. Here are at least two important meta tags that every website should contain in their HTML code.

<meta name=”Description” content=”Add here your website description”>

<meta name=”Keywords” content=”Add here all related keywords to your website”>

Here is an example of how and where you should add your meta tags.

<html>

<head>

<meta name=”description” content=”This is one example of Affiliate Marketing For All article 7 vital tips to keep your website fresh.”>

<meta name=”keywords” content=”website, affiliate marketing, update”>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

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