From the course: Social Media Promotion for Musicians, Artists, and Engineers

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Website problems to avoid

Website problems to avoid

From the course: Social Media Promotion for Musicians, Artists, and Engineers

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Website problems to avoid

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- [Instructor] Here are a number of practices that are guaranteed to turn off your visitors. You know what they are yourself because you probably encounter them on other sites every day. But that doesn't mean you should emulate a bad practice. Not only do many of the following aggravate people, but they're death to search engines. If you want fans to find you, make sure these are avoided. A splash page is an opening page with a video or Flash animation and no information. The whole enter here thing is to web 1.0 there's no info for the search engine to grab and your visitors hate them. Avoid at all costs. Flash animation looks cool but sometimes people just want some info and not cartoons. Search engines cannot read any of the info in a Flash movie so they can be a waste of time and money. iPhones and iPads can't display Flash and most people hate it these days anyway. Frames again are so web 1.0. Sites with frames went out a long, long time ago. Get with the times and dump these…

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