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Are Mouse Movements beneficial to my site?

 

 

Understanding how the person travels through your site, the mouse movements and actions will help your site.

 

If you watch your friends navigate through your site, jot down their mouse movements, where they tend to click to find pages, how often they return to a certain page to find things and when they get confused or unsettled attempting to get somewhere you ask them to find.

If you can understand the mouse movements of your site, you will be able to adjust particular 'visual' link areas, improve your navigation structure and fine tune your site. The longer a person can stay on your site or shop, the more successful the website is.

This simple suggestion is not easy to achieve because different people will use a different technique... so, repeat the exercise on lots of different people. Ask your friends to help, write them an email asking them to write down their mouse movements.

Tips: The next customer that enters your shop or reception, ask them. Strangers are far more critical and will offer 'unbiased' help. This strategy will dramatically help your site. It takes time, but is truly beneficial.

Tips: Buying a website template. You must use this when deciding if the template is right for your needs. If at all difficult or confusing, find another template.

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Tips: The Next Page Shows More On The Alt Text Function Available. Also, Remember To Put Each Word In A Capital Letter Use beneficial icons or a small picture that is fast loading to help highlight important pages. Put an Alt Text Description inside the picture so that if a person hovers over the icon, the next page is described. Hover over the blue arrow in this sentence to see more.

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Use your web stats

 

If your hosting company provides a website statistical package such as Webalizer or AWstats, look carefully at the popular pages AND... look at the entry - exit pages. If a particular entry page is high, and the same page is also high for exit. You should alter the links inside those pages. The title and description were inviting for the person to enter, yet the stay was too short. Analyze any reason why and change them immediately so that people stay on your site longer. Provide more relevant content.

 

Show the highest ranked page on your site

 

If your entry level, exit level points are high, try placing a very clear and easy to understand hypertext link to an important page as adjudged by your web stats. Invite the reader to continue to the next page. Most surfers will allow one page entry. If the second page is not relevant, the page or site will be closed quickly.

For the highest ranked page on your site, ensure that 'link in' 'link to' keywords are suitable for your content.

 

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Summary

If you can understand the main navigation or mouse movements of your site, you can structure the site's benefits for the reader.

 

By placing clearly defined patterns you can also increase the 'initial page rank' for important pages and mini web sites.

 

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