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“ Attention web designers: You have 50 milliseconds to make a good first impression! “

See full video at www.webpayload.com

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Episode 22: 12 crucial factors into making your website credible

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✓ Isn’t just for the sake of beauty

✓ Beauty makes things look more trustworthy

✓ We trust beautiful people more than we do ugly people. Fact.

✓ It’s built into us humans.

✓ Good design - typography, colour, composition, layout, imagery

Good design

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✓ Don’t just have a mobile number - it looks like you are trading out of the back of a lorry.

✓ In some industries such as tradesmen - plumber it’s fine to heavily promote your mobile number, as its understandable you will be “out and about” but have a landline number too.

✓ State your location on a contact form.

✓ Google Map backs this up.

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Clear Contact details

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✓ As we talked about last week Social Proof is very important

✓ Having numerous as testimonials really helps with trust.

✓ Don’t only have testimonials however - have backing up photos!

✓ PRO TIP: Build in strong objections into your testimonials

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Testimonials (with photos)

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Genuine staff photos (+ office too)

✓ Get someone who knows what they are doing with a camera and get some great shots of you and your staff.

✓ While you are at it - get a shot of the office and/ or location

http://www.think.eu/thinkers

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Language

✓ Short paragraphs

✓ Check spelling - 3 times over and again - goes without saying but if you content is riddled with typos - does it look trust worthy to you?

✓ Few if no long complicated words

✓ Not “WE” but “you”

✓ See Writing for the web video

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HttpS

✓ As people get more used to the web, they are looking for security signs and https is almost a must when entering details such as credit cards

✓ Backing this up and explicitly stating that it’s a secure page is not a bad idea.

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Show prices

✓ Many of the users will have come onto your site to find out how much a service of product costs. Save yourself a lot of work and give them what they want.

✓ It will save you a lot of work with time waster too.

✓ Unless you have a special sales technique why wouldn't you show your prices?

✓ Give a range of pricing if your service is dynamic / differing.

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Show off your clients

✓ It’s unlikely a small business will have worked with globally recognised brands but as your business grows its more than likely you will have recognised local companies as clients - show them

✓ Not only show them off but make a count of them

✓ “Trusted by 175 companies worldwide” - make even alone help make that sale.

See WebPayload.com for full featured video

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Recent and updated content

✓ If your the site in question has content dating back from 2009 as the latest entry what is your immediate thought?

✓ Something like are these guys still in business? AVOID

✓ If you don’t have a blog, content can be fresh with a Twitter feed - think of it as your mini CMS. Update it at a absolute minimum of weekly, posting your local sports team results or news is reasonable start.

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Seen elsewhere

✓ If you have ads on multiple other sites and mediums it really helps build trust and authority in your marketplace. Whilst this other advertising may not bring in a positive ROI it can certainly lead to trust in a round about way.

✓ If you have been featured in a popular well known publication, naturally mention this. As seen on TV - hell yes - publicize that!

✓ Hard to track this - but ask people why they bought from you... If they had heard about you other than your website.

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Website speed

✓ Your website loading speed is very important

✓ Doubts will creep into your customers mind if its slow loading. If it’s really slow then people may never even see you at all - ever.

✓ See other 2 videos and podcast with Tim Kadlec about site speed and performance. Luckily there are easy things you can do to greatly increase loading times.

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Google presence

✓ As Google is seen as such a powerhouse now, it’s important you are easily found and seen heavily on there.

✓ Google reviews help - also use these on your website

✓ Make sure you show in local and map search. You want multiple listings when someone searches for you.

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Summary

✓ Good and great design

✓ Clear contact details

✓ Testimonials

✓ Staff photos

✓ Good language and structure

✓ Https

✓ Show prices

✓ Show off clients

✓ Recently updated content

✓ Seen elsewhere

✓ Site performance

✓ Strong Google presence

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Good design is about good choices

Don’t overload pages with all these elements

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http://alistapart.com/article/indefenseofeyecandyhttp://www.kinesisinc.com/branding/the-truth-about-web-design/

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01449290500330448#.U8t-oKiMH1phttp://www.montessorium.com/http://www.lingscars.com/