There are tons of resources available that show you how to make money on the internet. I’ve written a few myself. But, maybe it’s easier to show someone WHAT TO DO, on WHAT NOT TO DO. I can show you how to drive visitors away from your website. Want your website all to yourself?

Then follow the steps below and you’ll get rid of them as easy as clicking the X.

1. Don’t tell anyone what you do or what you sell. Now, that’s a mystery to write about! Not to mention, there’s no contact email.(Didn’t want the spam anyway}. Is this for real?

2. Give those visitors lots of information all over the place. There is an ocean of banners, with links everywhere and articles galore. What now? And how do I stop all these popups? Egads! Get me outta here..
(But now my computer is froze). Reboot..Gone

3. Make the ordering process really complicated. It’s so much fun shopping around and then spending a half hour trying to figure out how to pay. Well, never mind, don’t need this stuff that bad. Another customer who wanted to spend money went “POOF”.

4. Fill your site with outdated information and broken links. This link goes to a 404 not found, that one is going nowhere, not even click able, and last updated 2001, Oh my it’s 2009!…GEEZ

5.I am at this website, but can’t read the information, and I’m wearing my specks!! Keep your page nice and dark and the print itty bitty. Kinda spooky, but it doesn’t do me any good if I can’t see it…BYE.

6. Here’s a goody, don’t make your links open in another browser. Well whatcha know, clicked right outta there!

Isn’t that what drives you away? Obviously, if you are spending time and energy putting up a website to make money, this is NOT what you want a visitor to find.

One Response to “Ways To Get Your Visitors To Click The X”

1. Theresa says:

   October 15, 2009 at 2:21 am

   It’s hard pulling it all together. The guys with just the one hard-sell product have life easy. When you run a service, like I do, it’s difficult because you need to tell people what they are getting, for how much, how long, etc. So the key there is to have good navigation and help them along with links to additional information (opening in new windows) as needed.