Making Your Website Attractive to Your Customers

It would only make sense that if you are selling clothes, you make sure that they are shown in their best form, if you are selling a house, you make sure that the house is clean and everything is in their own place, so as to attract your buyer. The same goes to your business website.

You could say selling a house or a dress and a website are two different things. But if you are looking to sell your website on the best marketplace, that is the internet, then you have to realize that expecting a site to sell itself is usually not a winning strategy. If you want to get a good and fair price for your site, then, you have got to highlight your site’s best features and think about how it would appear from prospects� end. Here at Gold Coast web design we also follow these 5 best tips to ensure your websites� appeal:

#1: Spend Wisely. It�s is not a guarantee that if you spend a lot on the website that it would become a money making success overnight, you can do so much so as to cut your monthly expenses for the site, thus, decreasing the amount of risk a buyer takes on when purchasing your site. Identify several expenses that are not necessary to maintain the value of the site, then go ahead and have them removed. A site that earns $6,000 a month but costs $5,000 to operate is worth a lot less than a site that earns the same amount but costs only $1,000 a month to operate.

#2: Transparency. When selling a website on the internet, you�re should be able to fill out your information. While some of the information might be unnecessary to you, it will make you look more professional and trustworthy if you fill out as much information as possible. This makes it look like you have nothing to hide and if you are confident enough to fill in a lot of information, the buyers would think that maybe you really do have a good and profitable asset to sell.

#3: Avoid overselling your worth, Yes, it is tempting to pump up your website as much as you possibly can, but if you start foiling the numbers and look too good to be real, then, any experienced domain buyers are going to see right through your style and realize that if something looks too good to be true, it probably is not worth it. Honesty is always the best policy, and that applies to any site , just as it does in your offline life.

#4: Make your website attractive. This is where the real estate analogy from earlier on really comes in place: since you can provide a preview of how your site looks like, then, make sure the site actually looks clean and professional.

#5: Never pretend to be something that is not. Offer your website to someone who would be interested in your site, and don�t try to market to just anybody else just as you wouldn�t advertise your refrigerator to people who live in Alaska.

Depending on what your website is about, your homepage should state some short, basic information about it. 90% of the people are lazy when they are on the internet, you can�t expect them to read all the way through your text. But, if you can however, attract their attention on the homepage they are much more likely to keep reading the rest of your site. To be able to achieve a good flow from your homepage to the rest of your website, you will need a very good structure. You can have a very small home website, so keep it simple. Only a couple of buttons on the top/side should do it, do not make it too elaborate. Your text on every page should also have a good structure.

Last but not the least, a good website design is also very important. People are more likely to actually read your website and give it to others if it looks good. Try not to make it too dark, or too bright or too colorful either. Text always needs to be easy to read. Pictures are also a good way to add some more feeling to your site.