1. Update your site regularly. Many stagnant websites are dropped by some earchengines. You can even put a date counter on the page to display when website was last updated.
2. Offer extra value on your site. For affiliates and partners you can put links to their websites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also promote their videos or books, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.
3. You can provide customers to ‘opt in’ to get special offers and discounts. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.
4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Add this site to your Favorites or Book Mark’.
5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your site link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.
6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.
7. Create an ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.
8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.
8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.
9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.
