Improve Website with Quality Steps – Must Read

Numerous factors are there to improve your website in terms of quality. First of all, the visitors to you site could see useful content and they should feel comfortable to take the services offers from your website.  If you are looking for the steps to improve the quality of your website, this article helps you to do some extent. Apart from the quality content, it also matters how the information is conveyed and the nice presentation of the content.

Comfortable link navigation.

The links present in your site must take the visitors to the appropriate page. The title of the link should give the right and short description of the page. It should not be like, the description tells something and the content speaks something else. It is advisable to have a catchy link title. The user must be able to reach the home page from all the sub-pages.

Avoid dead links.

Dead links, are links to pages that no longer exists. When the user encounters to click the dead link, he may become annoyed and thinks something goes wrong. Chances are high that he may avoid further navigation on your website. Keep in mind, not all visitors are technically savvy. If you remove any pages from your site, always look for the back links and remove them from other pages. Dead links are the foremost enemy for search engines; it extremely affects your page rank.

Make a readable page.

Make sure your website content or the text is readable and not too much of complex. The language should be easy to understand. Avoid using lengthy sentences. Keep your word count less than 800 words per page. Avoid spelling mistakes especially in the page title; it affects your traffic since your page may not be shown in search result. Have font size not less than 10. Try this Text Analyser.

Avoid too much multimedia content.

You must refine the usage of the multimedia content in your website. When you use Flash or video content, your sites loading time may increase, this makes the running users (who are urgently looking for information) to quit the page immediately. Statistics says, about 50 percent of the users may quit the website if the load time is more than 15 seconds. A highlighted word is more enough than an image or a Flash content.

But if your website really need to use for better attraction, it is advisable to have smaller size flash or video content with lesser load time.

You must use “Alt=<description>” in the <image> tags to tell the description of the image to the search engine, you know the search engine cannot understand the image content. This makes your page search engine friendly.

Provide search option.

You may have very good quality content, good page navigation, appealing colors in your website. Think off, when a user comes into your site and expecting some information that is hidden into your text. How do you provide such users with the required information? The solution is, Search Feature. This helps your user to find information that is not able to directly locate in your website. A must need feature.

Test with various browsers.

Whey do you need various browsers? You may be using IE but your neighbour may use Firefox or some thing else. You don’t know how the page layout, text, images looks bad in different browsers. So it is better to ride a test atleast once in some of the famous browsers like IE, firefox, mozilla, opera, netscape.

If you are running an organization online, suggest your test team, to run harness test on the website using variety of browsers, variety of resolution settings, and variety of operating systems.

User friendly in using forms.

Don’t confuse the user while receiving information through forms. Frame the label (description of the field) as easy-to-understand. Don’t mess up the fields, keep the fields in order (a sample order like first ask for the Name and then Address). Provide option for keyboard navigation. Users will be using the keyboard to fill the form .

React to user feedbacks.

This is one of the most important step to improve the quality of your website. Through the user feedbacks, comments, you could understand your readers. React. Make changes or improvements accordingly based on their needs. Even you could ask the users for suggestions or arrange for a poll for improvements. This makes your users to love your website and makes them to keep coming back with a good relation.

Always look for dissimilar peoples.

Look for dissimilar peoples, use your friend or a family member or any one, who is not a technical person. Ask him or her to navigate or use your website for sometime. You could easily identify the improvement areas.

Consistency in improvements.

Don’t be idle to improve once your website became fame (or famous), look for better improvements always. You could setup a list of improvement goals and implement them whenever the time permits. Keep in mind, there is no limit for improvements in life.

Don’t struggle for variety content.

One of the basic principle in building a quality website is, be focused on your topic. Don’t struggle for variety of contents and don’t dump your website with irrelevant content. If you have more focused/targeted content, the more quality your website is.

Though there are many ways to improve the quality of a website, the basic fact is, keeping the content quality and fresh is enough. Your visitors must find your site informative and easy to locate the required information. Also, they should feel comfortable to take the service offered by you (a signup or a purchase or an Ad click). It is good to periodically review your site and make the improvements continuously.

Try to keep your site 100% free from errors and make the most of user-friendliness.