Friday, July 12, 2013

How To Strategically Enhance Your Music Website's Performance

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By Bob Dole


Shopping for products and services on the internet is something that the general public is rather comfortable with these days. A high quality music information website that attracts and encourages visitors to return is needed to get this to work in your favor. Increase the amount of visitors that you attract with the careful designing, and copy development for the website.

Valuable information can be gained from your visitors. Consider trading something of value with them for information. Offer free instructional books in exchange for their email addresses and answers on a survey on something that you are an expert in. The information you receive from them will be more valuable than the cost of anything you could give away.

Clear presentation and display of products. If your music information website is for sales of products, confirm the products are showed in the form of clear and attractive images with the major features and benefits of such products highlighted.

Internet users will only give your web page a couple of seconds to load before they leave and find somewhere else to go. On top of that, search engines also incorporate loading speed into their algorithms, so the faster your site loads, the higher your ranking will be. Your music information website needs to load and perform quickly!

You should evaluate the data about your site and you may find out that users visit some of the pages frequently on your music information website. You can create links related to those pages. This will help your visitors in eliminating the need for checking through the site for finding those important pages.

Your payment processes or methods should allow for coupon or discount codes to be input. This is especially helpful when using social media or special advertising to offers discounts designed to draw in more customers and create a sense of urgency to buy before the offer expires.

Remember that there is a lot to buy and see on the internet. Instead of trying to appeal to everyone, cater to your specific target audience. Fulfill their needs and wants, and hopefully their work orders too. Keeping your demographic satisfied completely is better than trying to please everyone just a little bit. See the bit about Shotgun vs. Sniper.

Keep useful content open to the 'public' visitor. Requiring registration just to view basic info is a big turn off for your users. Only require registration for more advanced functions or for actually making a purchase.




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