You may have spent a lot of time designing your website and writing a copy of it, or you were all done by a professional designer and copyist. But there are about four billion websites online. That’s a lot of competition for your site, so how do you get people to read your copy? They are identified at the bottom of this article. Website users usually leave a site that lasts longer than 7 seconds to load, and the average visit length is just over 1 minute. So if your site is loading in less than 7 seconds, you have an average, one minute to convince your visitor to stay. And how do you make them stay? The answer is simple: content, content, content. But it takes an average of 5 to 7 visits to get people to buy your product or service, so how do you get them to come back? By constantly changing your content. Delete text, add text. Add full pages from time to time, and consider dividing long pages into two. According to research, content alone is not enough. There are a few factors to consider when building a high-quality website. A lot of research tells us how we can improve any website. How Viewers Read Webs Would it surprise you to learn that many site users will not actually read your site? That is what Jacob Nielsen and John Marks found in a 1997 study. They found that 79% will scan your site, and only 16% read every word. Their recommendations are to use a text that can be scanned using: • Highlighted words • Descriptive captions • Dotted lists • One idea in each paragraph • Inverted pyramid style • Part of the common spelling word Let's see what the school says again. Their title “Web Site Design” ensures that users scan instead of reading, leaving for a few seconds if they feel they have found what they are looking for. The school suggests using short sentences and paragraphs, and adding more details to separate pages. Let's talk for a moment about the distorted pyramid style because it's probably the only word you may not have heard before. Do you remember the papers you used to write in high school or university? Usually they start with an introduction, then move on to background information and discussion, then move on to the findings and finally come to a conclusion and recommendations. All of which means that you have to read a lot of information before you come to a conclusion and recommendations What Nielsen and Marks suggest is to modify the pyramid. You can write your website as a variant of the distorted pyramid by writing a summary first, and then adding details after the summary. Most people do not scroll, but writing your website in the style of a distorted pyramid can convince them to do so. How Writing Style of Nielsen and Marks have evaluated the impact of different writing styles on five versions of the same website. The site with a copy of the ad was a control version, and each of the four sites used one version of the following and had the following percentage improvement according to their test readers: • A short version that is almost part of the word count as control. 58% • A structure that can scan with the same text as the controller but easily scanned: 47% • Target language using neutral language rather than straight, arrogant or exaggerated language: 27% • Their research was done for news-type sites, but their findings will also help us to set up our website for small businesses. The study found that their users followed our Western Culture from left to right, first saw the top left of the page, moved up there slightly, and then went down with a z-shaped pattern to scan the entire page, and finally. A page to the top right. Research has found that the eye stops and reads the first few words of the main heading first, Surprisingly, they also found that the smaller version encourages learning while the larger version encourages scanning. Are You Faithful? Nielsen and Marks have found that website users looks honest in a variety of ways, and they promote loyalty with high quality images, good writing and the use of outgoing links. The internet was meant to find information, and it still is today. Over the years, few people have tried to duplicate the website. What they found consistently was that users did not want to see “hard sales” types of copywriting. Nielsen and Marks have confirmed that view in their article as well. They found that users of the website wanted to find out that honesty suffered when users heard that the claims were exaggerated. Exciting research on the reliability of the site is entitled “How Do People Check the Reliability of the Website?” by B.J. Fog PhD, Cathy So ho, David Daniel son of the Consumer Web watch.
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