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92 Reasons Why Your Website Sucks But Others Websites Make Real Money

by Vahid | Good To Know | Sunday, January 28th, 2007

There are millions of websites and weblogs and thousands of new ones come everyday. Although some of the websites and weblogs are not designed and promoted to make any money, most of them are created to make some money and become a new resource of income for their owners.

But unfortunately most of these websites that are supposed to start making money after a while, will be abandoned to become expired. Millions of new domains become registered every year but will not be renewed for the next year. It is not because their registrars forget to renew them. It is because they have come to this conclusion that their websites will not make any money for them.

Are you one of these people? Have you registered a domain and created a website but after several months it still has no traffic or just a few clicks everyday? One or more of the problems below can be related to you our your website. Your website will not start making money as long as you don’t solve all the problems it has. Some of these problems are related to optimization of your website and its failure to attract traffic from search engines and some others are related to you, as the webmaster, and also the designing and marketing designing and marketing.

Optimization Problems:

1- Your website doesn’t have any good content.

2- Your website has duplicated content copied from other websites.

3- Your website has duplicated pages.

4- Your website is linked to bad neighborhoods.

5- Your website has door-way pages.

6- Your website has hidden texts and links.

7- Your website doesn’t have any good navigation system.

8- Your website has JavaScript or Flash links that can not be followed by the search engines spiders.

9- Your website is over-optimized.

10- The home page title tag has just your company name or the domain name with weak or no relevancy to the page content.

11- The home page title tag it too long with too many keywords.

12- Keywords are repeated in the home page title tag.

13- Your website has several pages with the same title tag.

14- Your website has no description meta tag.

15- Your website description meta tag is too short.

16- Your website description meta tag has the same content as the title tag.

17- Your website description meta tag is too long.

18- Your website description meta tag has too many keywords.

19- Your website description meta tag has no grammatically correct sentences and the keywords are only repeated in it.

20- Your website description meta tag has no meaningful sentence.

21- Your website description meta tag does not carry the main keyword.

22- Your website description meta tag has no or weak relevancy to the title tag.

23- Your website description meta tag has weak or no relevancy to the page content.

24- Your website has some other pages with the same description meta tag as the home page.

25- Your website description meta tag is copied from other website/websites or is so similar to them.

26- Your website keyword meta tag has too many keywords.

27- Your home page body is so small with very low amount of text.

28- Your home page body is too big with a lot of texts that have weak relevancy to the title and description.

29- Your website home page is fully designed with Macromedia Flash.

30- You have not used <h> tags on your home page.

31- Your website home page has no good headline and sub-headlines.

32- Your website home page has too many internal and external links.

33- Your website home page theme becomes changed from time to time.

34- All the pages are linked to the home page with the links that have the main keyword/phrase in the anchor text.

35- The home page and other pages of the website are linked to off-topic websites.

36- You have repeated keywords on the home page.

37- Your home page has hidden texts and links.

38- Keywords are not distributed on the home page evenly and are too close to each other.

39- You have too many bold keywords on the home page.

40- Your website has the same affiliate links that many other websites have.

41- Your website is not updated for a long time.

42- You change your website title frequently.

43- You change your website description meta tag frequently.

Link Popularity Problems:

44- Your website has a weak or no link popularity.

45- You have participated in link schemes.

46- Most of your website’s incoming links are reciprocal.

47- Most of your website’s incoming links had the same or very similar anchor texts.

48- Most of your website’s incoming links are from web directories.

49- Most of your website’s incoming links are from links pages.

50- Most or all of your website’s incoming links are from off-topic websites.

51- Most or all of your website’s incoming links are from FFA and link farms.

52- The number of incoming links to your website is increased in a short period of time.

Design and Structure Problems:

53- Your website has no good color combination.

54- Your website has no good contact us page.

55- Your website has no about us page.

56- Your website can not attract the visitors’ trust.

57- Your website appearance is not good.

58- Your website has a lot of broken links.

59- Your website has a lot of unloadable images.

60- Your website has a lot of images that have no alt text.

61- Your website is so slow.

62- You have not registered a good and suitable domain name.

63- Your website is not hosted by a good, reliable and fast web hosting service.

64- Your website is so deep and has no sitemap.

Market and Product Problems:

65- The product or service you sell on your website has a very low demand.

66- The product or service you sell on your website is so competitive and there are a lot of other websites that sell the same product or service.

67- The product or service you sell on your website is so expensive and people don’t dare to order it online.

68- The product or service you sell on your website can not be ordered worldwide or at least in USA.

69- You don’t have enough payment options on your website and so most people can not order your product.

Advertising Problems:

70- You know nothing about online advertising or something you know is not enough.

71- You don’t know how to advertise in Pay Per Click programs like Google AdWords.

72- You advertise in Pay Per Click programs but you don’t know how to optimize your ads and so you spend more than what you make.

73- You don’t know how to find the keywords and key phrases related to your website and the products and services you sell on it.

74- You don’t know how to write good sales letters.

75- You have no autoresponder and don’t know how to run a newsletter for your website and product.

76- You don’t know how to run your own affiliate program and let other webmasters promote your product for you.

77- You don’t know how to write articles about your website and products and submit them to article directories.

78- You don’t know how to advertise in e-zines.

79- You don’t know how to promote your website in traffic exchange websites.

80- You don’t know how to find good and suitable websites to advertise on them and generate a lot of sales.

81- You don’t know how to design banners for your website and products.

82- You don’t reply your website visitors’ emails on time or at all.

83- You don’t have any good and on time support.

84- You don’t have enough information, photos and videos about your products and so visitors can not decide if it is good to order or not.

85- You don’t offer special prices and discount for your products.

86- You don’t offer money back guarantee.

Personal Problems:

87- You think, to start an online business that makes reasonable money, it is just enough to create a website. You think that people will find your website on their own.

88- You know that a website needs to be promoted and advertised to become popular and make money but you don’t know how to do that.

89- You know how to promote a website but you have no money or time or both.

90- You think, to make money online, you need to have a website like Google, Yahoo or MSN and when these big websites work, there is no room for you.

91- You think you can not make any money through your own business - even as small as a website - and you have to work for others.

92- You have not set your goals and do not know what are going to do with your website.

Can you mention any more reasons that I have not mentioned here?

Please do it through leaving a comment.

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