Sometimes you ask yourself why you are losing traffic on your web site or blog. Traffic is very hard to get, but it is very easy to lose if you don’t carefully follow basic webmaster rules for web site maintenance. I made a research on the web and I found a lot of blog posts and sites which write about the most common webmasters errors for losing traffic. I summarize the most important informations in this post. Most of them are collected from linkreferral dot com forums, posts of several pro-bloggers and my huge personal experience.

The most common errors for losing traffic and ways to avoid that
(top 8):

1. Animation Overload
Using animations excessively on web sites would put your visitors off. Beware of blinking text and images. Only use animations where it would add a value to your content.

2. Color combinations
Don’t just use the colors because they are your favorites. Choose right color combinations for your text and background. For instance blue over red background makes it difficult to read. Go for the colors that are easy on the eyes. Choose web safe colors.

3. Lack of Maintenance
Make sure all your links are working properly. Also, make sure your site loads correctly. Here is a free tool to check dead links on your site.

4. Built for one Browser
You have to keep this in mind that there are other browsers as well as Internet Explorer and they are also used wisely. Your site may not render as the same way it appears in your own browser. So make sure to test your site on different browsers and different machines.

5. Using Tables Excessively
Tables may not render same way in the old browsers. And some browser may not support tables. So try using table wisely.

6. Using Images as Background
When you using images as your background, make sure it doesn’t distarct your visitors to read your content.

7. Pop-up, Pop-unders
Don’t give your visitors something they don’t expect. In most cases, users will press the back button or close button of the browser as the pop-up and pop-unders appear. Try to avoid using them.

8. Excessive Advertisement
Always label your advertisements as sponsored links, advertisement, or anything similar. Don’t expect your visitors to find your main content between advertisement. Because they won’t. Dedicate a space in your site for advertisement and label it clearly.

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