Top Tips To Get People To Leave Your Site
Day 20 of The 100 Days To Webpage Excellence Guide
Yesterday I wrote about how to publish an RSS feed on your blog. That was actually an incredibly easy post to write, as publishing an RSS feed is simple, especially if you have wordpress. The hard part can be getting people to subscribe to your RSS feed. But don’t worry, you can get people to stop visiting your site in droves with these easy steps. And if they aren’t visiting your site, they must be reading your RSS right?
Top Tips To Get People To Leave Your Site
1) Play Music when the enter - People absolutely hate it when sound plays when they enter a website. Do they really want to interrupt their ipod to listen to your tunes? Sure don’t. Luckily, bloglines and Google Reader disable the sounds. So people will be sure to flee your site to your feed.
2) Have a slow loading page - Who want to sit around waiting for a webpage to load? I sure don’t, and I’m not going to wait minutes for one to load up. But since my feeds are always fast, I’ll just turn there. So to make sure your webpage loads slowly, avoid using WP-Cache if you possibly can, and ensure that all your images are Bitmaps and not PNGs or Jpegs.
3) Have Lots of Advertising - Feeds are more or less ads free. Why come to your blog and look at your banners when I can read it in the feed? Be especially sure to interrupt your content with Ads, just so you can drive the most people away
4) Use Intext Advertising - People love being able to easily tell what are links and what aren’t. Luckily there is a great way to trick them. Use Kontera or Intellitxt to fool people into thinking you endorse a site when it is really just advertising. Don’t worry, they won’t fall for it twice. They’ll be gone so fast you won’t believe.
5) Don’t Check out your site - Don’t worry. If it works on your machine it is sure to work on everyone out there. There is no reason to go through the hassle of validating your site. Besides, if people can’t access the site very well, it just makes them more likely to read your feed right?
Oh come on, this is the 20th in a 100 post series. I have to break it up with some nonsense sooner or later. Don’t worry though, we’ll be right back on track tomorrow with some real tips on getting subscribers.
on June 7th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Not nonsense, it’s all true. Especially number 4. I’ve also noticed that people are adding MyBlogLog click tagging which shows how many times a link on your site has been clicked on when you put your cursor over the link. Why would I care, if it’s not my site? And also it’s too easy to click the MyBlogLog link instead of the one you actually want to visit. (end rant)