Website Design Mistakes That Can Lose Sales For Your Tacoma or Seattle Business

October 3rd, 2011 Tags: Website Design Mistakes For Tacoma or Seattle Business
Posted in Facebook Marketing, Internet Marketing, Search Marketing, SEO

So you’ve finally taken the plunge and put a website up, or redesigned your 2003 website for your Tacoma or Seattle business. Congratulations, it’s a smart move!

“What? It looks like you did it yourself??!

“Let me take a look… oh… ummm…”

Does your website scream amateur? It might be that you did put your site together yourself or you got your cousin, Eddit, who knows a little more than you do, to put it up for you.

Or maybe you saw an ad on TV or online that promised a ‘free’ website when you hosted it with a company for $59 a month (a terrible deal, by the way). So you now have a ‘template’ website that 1000s of other companies use, which makes it look copy-cat to Google and other search engines (OUCH!).

Now cast a critical eye over it, as if you were your customer. While you may be proud of your newfound graphic skills, you may actually be scaring potential customers away. Take a look at your competition. Does their website look sleek, neat, and professional? How does yours stack up?

Simply put, a professional website header and other graphics make your online business face professional by association.

If your graphics look, well… lame, then everything else is suspect too, even if you do have valuable information on your site.

A site’s graphics are so important, that you should spend most of your time (and budget) on them. If you’ve gone to all the work to bring new people to your website, don’t you want to leave a good first impression? People will stay on the site if they are attracted to your design, but if they click away 3 seconds after landing they are probably going to do business with your competition.

Take a look at some of the websites you like to visit and check out their website header, their “buy now” buttons, and the other graphical elements.

* Are they in keeping with the overall theme of the business?
* Are they pleasing to look at?
* Do the graphics in the content make the site easier to read?

The good news is you don’t have to be a graphics artist to have a professional-looking website! You just have to know one!

AHEM! That’s us! We can critique and redesign your website quickly and cost-effectively to save you time and hassles.

And help keep those clients on YOUR Tacoma or Seattle business website!