Thou Shalt NOT! Ten Ways to Really Annoy Your Website Visitors

We often hear what websites should do to keep and attract customers. But what about what they shouldn't do? Here are ten perfectly good ways to annoy your website visitors, ensuring they never, ever, come back to visit.

1. Design a very fancy 3 minute Flash as your splash page. And to make sure they watch the entire (and very expensive) presentation, you do not include a "skip intro" link on the page.

2. You really want subscribers to your weekly newsletter. So you design a pop-up that will encourage visitors to subscribe. Now, you don't want them to possibly miss the opportunity to subscribe to your fabulous newsletter, so you place this pop-up on every single page within your site ~ regardless of how many times they have already seen it, or if they are a subscriber or not.

3. You decide that a 50:1 ratio of ads to actual site content is a good ratio formula to bring in the big bucks.

4. You love spinning, flashing animated graphics, and decide more is best when deciding to spice up the look of your webpages.

5. You are so sure that your visitors will be so taken with your site that they will never want to leave, so you include a clever javascript that disables their back button.

6. You really want to share the wonders of all the new affiliate programs out there with your newsletter subscribers, so you start off each newsletter with links to your top 100 affiliate programs.

7. You decide solo ads are the way to get even more income, so you schedule one solo ad per day Monday through Friday, and as a weekend bonus to your loyal followers, you send them two each Saturday and Sunday.

8. You have hundreds of ideas of what to add to your site in the future, and you want to share them all with your visitors. So you include lots of links to pages to show them what will be there, then put up a really cool "under construction" images, complete with flashing lights, on those pages.

9. Add a chilling rendition of Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" for your visitor's listening enjoyment. And because you are certain that everyone loves Titanic just as much as you, you do not include the audio controls so they can stop it.

10. Optimize your images to show as much detail as possible. Everyone will want to wait six minutes per page just to see the eye-catching graphics you have included.

By following these ten simple guidelines, you will be able to create a website that everyone will loathe to visit!

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