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After answering a post on BHW, and failing to find some information on Google, I decided to write a post on how to avoid getting banned (especially when selling) on Digital Point Forums, widely known as DP Forums. I will also be discussing some aspects to increase your sales.
After a close study, I have noticed that most of the people get banned when they engage themselves in selling something in the BST (Buy/Sell/Trade) section or participate in flaming debates. You can surely stay out of those flaming debates but you will surely want to get a way around the first problem.. the BST section.
Here are some personal tips on avoiding the DP MODs shut down the doors on you while you’re selling your product and/or service on DP Forums.
The core of your online business is your website; it’s the virtual illustration of your business and/or company no matter it physically exists or not. Dealing with an online company, people cannot see you like they could have if they were dealing with an offline company. Hence people do evaluate you by your covers. This is where a good website design acts in.
Visualize if you are operating an offline business and/or company, would you be ok with your salesperson is dressed up in casual or torn/shabby clothes when dealing with your clients? I hope not, by dressing up your office environment and sales staff, you are trying to convince your customers that you are concerned about the quality of your business, remember the quote “first impression is the last impression”? , it works here.
Same is the case with your website, if it is created scruffily and/or you have used a free template, you are obviously roaring to your customers that you are non-professional and you do not care for eminence.
On the other part, if you have a sleek professional looking website, with clean and clear navigation and distinctively placed content, a 10 years old kid will also be impressed and will have a perception that you are a specialized company and have paid a scrupulous attention to every detail of a perfect website.
In addition to this, if you use business cards, letterheads and promotional brochures that are well designed and gives a reference of your business website, you are nothing short of a complete professional business module. Remember these tiny bits are the face of your company. Once again, just flash your mind on the untidily dressed salesperson and you’ll get my point.
Every one of us uses a website for some purpose, unless it’s a personal page created just for fun, which clearly is a minority. When you think about the design of your website, you should always keep these 5 golden rules in mind, which will help your website achieve the goal you intend it to do.
1 – No Splash Pages
For those of you who don’t know what a splash page is, it’s a page with some beautiful images with text like welcome or click to enter, most people tend to use flash intros on their splash pages. But you should avoid this, first and most importantly it’s not good for the SEO. Secondly, don’t let your visitors have a reason to click the back button.
2 - No Excessive Image Ads
Even the newbie’s on the internet have this in their mind that banner ads are crap and they tend to ignore them. So you will be wasting some potential real estate of your website. You can, instead, provide more relevant and informational content and bind your affiliate links within your content. This will help your visitors persuade to buy instead of being forced to buy. You can also try to adapt different advertisement methods such as the korn3r ad.
3 - Crystal Clear Navigation
Navigation is the most vital part of a website; you must make sure that even a young child browsing your website should be able to quickly navigate through your website to find the right content. You should stay away from complex flash navigations and multi-tiered drop down menus. If your visitor isn’t feeling comfortable browsing your site, he will not think again before hitting the X button on the top right corner!
4 - Keep The Visitors Informed
When a visitor is deeply immersed in browsing your site, you have to make sure that he knows which part of the site he is in at the instant. This way, he will be able to get to pertinent information or steer to any section of the site easily. Keep in mind, confusing the visitor means losing him.
5 - Don’t Annoy Your Visitors
If you have some readable content on your site, which you think a user will stay and read then you will want to make sure they are not infuriated by some audio loops on your site. If you want to add some descriptive audio like a description or offer, you must put some control over it, like the volume or muting control.
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Bush was having a press conference when an iraqi journalist stood up and threw one of his shoe with his complete force,
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Google always emphasis on avoiding broken links in your websites, but look what I found, two broken links on one page, and that too on one of Google’s page !
The page is http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/about.html and it has two broken links, first one on the logo and other one on the Help link.
They both lead to a 404 page..
Amazingly stupid.. isn’t it? well obviously its Google.co.in, so we can say the management is indian? so what is the point ? are they sleeping or what..? 
That’s hurting the Google’s reputation and I think this should get fixed!
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Congratulations to Barack Obama on his great victory in the US elections 08. I registered this domain and I’m looking for offers to sell it. It can be developed to a fansite, or a forum aswell, depends on the creativity, and yes Google Adsense is paying handsome on Obama as Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google had backed Obama with his support.
Domain : WelcomeObama.com
Registered at : Godaddy (free push)
You can post offers in the comments section or send me an email on aLee [at] d3sign3r [dot] com
cheers 