10 Ways By Which You Can Ruin Your Website’s Visitor Experience
Ecommerce Blog has posted an article, which describes the ways in which you ruin your ecommerce website’s visitor experience. Though the article is primarily aimed at ecommerce website doing business, but points number 10, 8, 7 and 2 are relevant for bloggers.
These are the ways that they have mentioned:
10: Use as much Flash, Javascript, Ajax, and Java as possible.
9: Disable Right Clicking.
8: Re-size your images only using the width=”” and height=”” html tags.
7: Place Google adsense or Yahoo contextual ads everywhere you can fit them.
6: Force visitors to contact you through a complex proprietary system, but don’t let them get the support they want.
5: Stuff your content with relevant key phrases you want to rank for.
4: Use Frames
3: Don’t let visitors know how they can pay.
2: Make sure you don’t include an internal search engine on your website.
1: Require your visitors to register with your website in order to make a purchase.
Elaborate explanation on each point can be read here.
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Excellent find Shiv, I actually want to try and implement Ajax/JS comments, to prevent the page loading again to show new comments.
I also wanted to enable ajax for comments in this K2 theme but it creates lot of trouble for me.
Using Frames is a huge mistake and very disturbing.
The visitor is often looking for a clean web site with clean content.
A visitor will make up his mind about the web site in the first 5 seconds.
while flash web sites are very nice they are also loading slow which makes the visitors experience not so pleasant.
The content on the web site much be organized and the web site must be easy to navigate.
Adds everywhere are a pain in the back.
And so on….
Nice write up! I personally hate flash, especially if it is not optimized for a good viewing experience. In some places it is ok, but not everywhere.