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Are you scaring visitors away from your site instead of attracting them to it?
Author: Akanksha Sinha

Have you ever wondered why your "perfect" website is not generating the kind of traffic you hoped it would? Time for a reality check! Maybe your website isn't as perfect as you thought! Heart broken? Don't be it's not too late to correct those mistakes...Begin Now!

Here are some of the most

common mistakes people make while building their websites:

1.PAGE CANNOT BE FOUND :

Broken links and dead links can cause a lot of damage to your website. Make sure all your links work - There is nothing more annoying to your visitors than clicking on a link only to find a ‘page cannot be displayed' error message!

2.PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION :

Don't put a link on your site that takes you to a ‘page under construction!' Put the link on the site when you have something to offer. Don't toy with your visitors' time, patience and emotions!!! Oh! And please take off that annoying ‘page under construction' logo right NOW!!!

3.MULTIPLE POP UPS :

Pop ups should be used wisely, if at all! Don't drive your visitors crazy with multiple pop-up windows flooding their screen. They will never forgive you for the time and effort they had to waste in closing those pop-ups!!!

4.BLACK / GARISH LOOKING BACKGROUNDS :

Avoid using black as your page background color. It not only makes it difficult to read the content on your website but also makes your site look illegal and spammy! Make sure that your site conveys useful information to your visitors and in the process convinces them that you are worth doing business with.

5.ILLEGIBLE TEXT :

Make the content on your website easy to read, grasp and follow. Use font sizes that

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