How to optimize website navigation

In: Website Traffic

5 Jul 2010


Do not misunderstand. The most impressive research and website products range will fail to convert visitors into paying customers if they do not react more quickly and are easy to find what they want. There are a lot of competition in the market. Development and design of a site that is easy to understand and use, and will attract more than your fair share of visitors – visitors who return again and again and buy. Not only are your competitors and smiles. How can we achieve? The use of techniques, intuitive navigation. Use them to develop and design your site, then sit back as hordes of customers with your Internet business regularly satisfied. And if you’re the online marketing business is your key to significant profits and effortless is back. Ok, so what exactly is the intuitive navigation – and how we can use our website design? I can tell you what is not. He is not striking and creative designs that distinguish you from the “dull websites” out there.

In simple terms, the implementation of a consistent and intuitive navigation familiar look and feel to maintain all the design elements of your website. Some of these elements; Menu Google AdSense: Your site menu – the table of contents, if you will be on each side – who guides visitors through the various pages of your website must appear to be consistent, and. Web sites that a menu on the home page or select specific pages included on the website (and I’ve seen too many of those), the power that visitors to the back button (or click on the logo to return to home).

The collective outcome will click and the visitors to get lost more visitors. And visitors who are lost … Well, you lose. And for the love of Pete, keep the menu style and placement consistent from page to page. Again, imagination and various same confusion. Confusion Frustration same. And the frustration is equal to “No sale. Site: Another useful side and lacking in many corporate websites, is the place to plan a Web page that a hierarchical, top-down contains, organized list of all the sections or pages on your site.

It is a road map on your web-maze that you get where you more directly, quickly want (especially the access connections). It can also compensate for any design “sins” in your menu. And for many on the left brainers, like me, sometimes it is the preferred way.

Index subtitles:

For those of large pages on your site that need to scroll through the pages, is preferable to subtitles in your copy for better readability belong. linked by repetition of this subtitle at the top of your page with the subtitles in the copy, it is easier for visitors to access or return of such items from the copy that interest them most. Back to the top bar: Even for large pages on your site have “Top” links between the sub-title, or at least the bottom of the copy of your page, visitors can return to the top of your web page with one click, without the need to scroll.

Text Links:

Whether it is a menu item or other link on your site with text links is simple and effective method of travel in most cases. Yes, there is an overabundance of fancy buttons and impressive graphics and rollovers available to navigate your site. However, it is an area where it is known to keep up with the KISS method for the simple things known. Text links are much faster than upload images. Well, for a quick access to broadband Internet, the difference between the text and invite you to neglect the image. However, there are still many potential customers surfing again on slow connections. For them, the difference was not significant.

So, until we are all on the same side connection, you can all visitors welcome. In addition, navigation menus, help text appropriate text for search engines, including navigation bars, can not the image. And of course the text is often easier than an image in order to understand the purpose of the connection. Remember – the Internet and your Internet business, it’s always better to err on the side of efficiency on a strong impression.

Menu:

Ok, we have our menu at the top (or side) of all of our web pages. So why should we want to repeat it at the bottom of each page? Well, besides providing your visitors with only one alternative, the option for the navigation of the website, there are two situations when your place is on your menu, footer even more important as a “nice to have.”

(1) If you insist on using graphics in your main menu, the inclusion of a text menu in the footer aid readability and understanding of the two drives and ensure that search engines can see you.

(2) Set up your menu is on a framework an easy way to ensure your menu items and remains firmly in sight, even if you browse to a Web page in length.

But while there are many advantages to using frames on your site are also disadvantages. Although details about the pros and cons of fodder for another article, let’s just say there are many sites that prefer not support frames. In such cases, one side down the time to scroll through your menu items to navigate sometimes out of sight.

A footer menu provides an easy way back, these elements without the need for scrolling to access the page. Containing a wealth of details, a site rich in context can a confusing and intimidating jungle of information for Internet visitors. However, with proven techniques for intuitive navigation, you can activate the potential of chaos (and lost customers) in a soft and pleasant walk through the streets of the Internet.

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