One of the easiest things to do with your website or blog is to make sure that visitors do not ever come back to it again. Our 7 tips to make sure your visitors forget about your website and never ever return are so powerful that any one of the first six will probably do the trick very well on its own! Check them out:
1. Be unoriginal
Make sure that there is nothing that makes your website stand out from the crowd. Just say what everyone else is saying and do as they do. The idea is to give your visitors the ‘been there, done that’ feeling the first time they land on your website.
2. Choose a complicated domain name
Beware of short, memorable domain names that visitors can easily type in. If you want your website to be easily forgotten you need a nice, complicated domain name that is as long as it is dull. Also, avoid the popular .com, .net and .org and go for something obscure and forgettable like the .ws domain suffix.
3. Use the same old template as everyone else
Creative, professional web design will surely make your site or blog more appealing, so avoid it like the plague. Just find a cheap or free template that everyone else seems to be using and go with that. And the default WordPress template is just what you need to make sure your visitors realise that yours is just another blog.
4. Make sure your website is hard to navigate
Bad navigation is a sure way to keep people from returning to your website. After all, if you make it too easy for them to find their way around, they will quickly find what they are looking for and come back for more next time. Don’t waste time planning an organized and logical structure that links your different web pages together. Also, make sure your links to different parts of your website have obscure names and are not easily visible.
5. Write mediocre content
This is one of the greatest tricks in the book. Page after page of poorly-written, irrelevant content will not only make sure your visitors never come back, but it will scare them away immediately and avoid you the bother of having to respond to a stream of enquiries. The best dull content for your blog or website begins with a drab and uninviting title that will make sure few visitors even click through to the piece. Still, be sure to have a monotonous opening paragraph as a second line of defence.
6. Update your site or blog rarely - if at all
If you add new information to your site or blog every day or two, or even once or twice a week, you will get people checking back to see what’s cooking. The trick is to forget to update your website, so that your visitors forget about it too.
7. Avoid offering social bookmarking features
Give your visitors the chance to bookmark your website with services like Digg or StumpleUpon and not only will they keep returning, but they will share your site with others and bring you still more pesky visitors. Same thing goes if you make it easy for people to subscribe to your blog feed or e-mail your posts to a friend with one click. Don’t do any of this!
As you can see, scaring people away from your website is not as difficult as many out there would have you believe. In fact, with a bit of luck your website might very well be doing a good job of this already and you don’t have anything to worry about!
