7 Things to Remove From Your Website Immediately 

Isn‘t it harmful to take keywords off the site or is a better organized page the superior way here?

I absolutely will not fill out calendar call forms. My day is far too fluid to be sitting waiting for a salesman to call and some of the time they haven't called. Am I old-fashioned? With this, yes! Further, my day is (again) far too fluid for me to be locked in to a call at a certain time... I'll get back to them at my first opportunity which may be minutes or hours. If the initial conversation is positive then we can lock in a time for future conversations.

In the EU, there are laws that oblige a website owner to be easily and unambiguously accessible. You can explain in one or two sentences what the contact form is for.

If you say so Nick :)

@@WesMcDowellInc she’s the multi-millionaire dude.

@@WesMcDowellInc Dude, your mascara is running

"Ling's Cars is an absolute masterpiece." 🤣

Why?

Heck, stop using hamburger menus on your mobile site too. They perform poorly across the board. If you only have a few links in your top navigation, why hide them?

Yes, some people are intimidated by a face to face meet, email might seem lower entry.

Doesnt have to be "face to face", could be a scheduled phone call.

@@WesMcDowellInc but i don't want to be called, i just want to ask a question. in any case, isn't putting 'expect a reply in 24 hours' more effective than a diary in a calendar?

What is your business about? What is your call to action?

Thanks a great point!

You'll definitely want to create a video that resonates with your audience and compels them to contribute to your cause. Also make the donation process very simple and straightforward.

Not anymore, just focusing on my courses and youtube content at the moment, sorry!

you will find better ones 😂

If you need help finding someone who offers simple website audits/suggestions as a service, feel free to let me know :)

​@WesMcDowellInc do you recommend someone who does site audit and random improvements to tighten and tidy it up?

Very interesting. I hadn't thought of this, but now that you mention it, it makes absolutely perfect sense.

It’s a real Vestaboard. Thx!

Any time!

Ha, I'm a huge fan! But don't link ppl back out to your socials!

@@WesMcDowellInc I love that you didn’t let her off the hook just because she’s Amy. I’m a big fan too. I still don’t get why she hasn’t jumped on RU-vid

Yea, she's pretty famously shy about being on video.

Have you seen images from midjourney? They’re actually super realistic

@@WesMcDowellIncthat's the problem.

The problem is they’re realistic? I thought the problem is that they’re obvious. Which is it?

You will eventually get used to it 😁

That all depends on how you use it ;)

About us pages are usually the second most viewed page on a website. And privacy policy isn’t really a big page for visitors but it’s got an impulses purpose for your business. But put that one in your footer menu for sure

Dont forget for seo purpose it also needs these pages

And as ai gets looked into more, having transparency about how you use it is valuable

Calendly :)

I don't know that I'd call them state of the art, its more about removing the back and forth, and getting leads form a to b as seamlessly as possible. Include a few "weed out" questions in the form if you need to qualify calls in advance, then just politely let some ppl know that you probably can't do your best work for their situation. And a secondary lead magnet CTA is a great idea. Cheers!

I have a similar question! I’ve heard you recommend to use only one CTA per page, but what if you have CTA for the call and also for the lead magnet. It’s okay to have them both on the same page if only one has a special color that stands out from the rest, I guess?

@@Matumarkfrom ux point of view - don‘t distract but move a potential client on the right road. if both cta elements lead into a road of business they are ok as clients might have different speed in connecting with you. the first one might use the booking call while this is to intimidating for the second one who just need more time and who is well seated on your mailinglist. it‘s not that black and white :-)

Thats what I said to do :) Cheers!

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Yep... I've had thousands of students in my paid program, plus my clients and my subscribers. I've reviewed literally thousands. Cheers!

I've also built a ton of healthcare provider sites and agree. Bios for the providers are almost mandatory. The PROVIDER is the product being sold rather than some widget. But to also support what was said in the video, we rarely added staff because of turnover. It's one thing to add the new doctor's bio but another when you add and remove office staff that are replaced a lot.

I work at a healthcare marketing company and this is very true.

Just put it in the footer where most ppl will naturally look for that

What I'd do is change the word "contact" to something much more specific. book a consultation, make an appointment, etc. And style it like a button, not just a text link. That should go in the upper right corner of the page. Cheers!

​@WesMcDowellInc is it better to word it in the perspective of the customer eg Book my table, book my appointment etc? I read somewhere that wording this way helps. Do you think that's true?

​​@@djoakeydoakey1076Book my table sounds odd, is it my table? Do I own it? Book a reservation is better if you ask me. Does it really matter though? No, it can have a positive effect on some people and a negative one on others, but ultimately the large majority won't care about the wording to that extent.

Get a better contact form with some kind of human authentication. I only get occasional spam anymore.

@@opossumgrylls3275 Thank you. Better yet I deleted my website. No more spam😄

I don't know if the idea is to completely remove them, there are always exceptions. I've had some clients using FB as their store rather than their site so the real goal was to get them back to FB to make a purchase.

think about it this way; what is the point of keeping "them connected"? For most businesses, the sale or lead generation happens on the website. Getting people to the website is nearly at the end of the funnel. Why distract at that point? If your social channels need support from the website to keep their audiences engaged, that's a problem with the social accounts and not something the website should solve.

@@grizfan93 thanks for your feedback. I’m an artist and sharing my process and connecting with people is an important part for me. My socials are not supported by my website, they support my website - by constantly reminding my followers of what I have to offer and making them part of the experience. I don’t see them as distraction because they can only be found at the bottom of my contact page. I see them as more options for people to reach me and get to know me.

If you're an artist that's kind of a different funnel. Not my speciality.

@@WesMcDowellInc ah I see… btw I posted a long reply and thank you to the previous person and my comment was deleted 😢

Thinking about accessibility after you build the website is usually where the problem starts. Plugins and widgets make the problem a LOT worse. Those stupid accessibility overlay widgets are basically an admission of guilt. Accessibility is one area that reveals the difference between a professional web designer or developer, and a poser. Starts with the color palette and builds from there. If you're using something like Elementor or Divi, expect bad results. Same for page builders like Wix or Weebly. While all are capable of producing an accessible website, they make it so easy to completely mess up accessibility.

You don't need to do all that much for accessibility. Though it can depend on the way your site implemented it's features. If it's not using divs for buttons and the colour contrasts are sufficient, it'll already be likely plenty accessible for screen readers and users with vision impairments. In any case, aria attributes can help make a site more accessibility friendly. If it has a responsive design that can adjust to user font size choices in the browser and such, great, if not, the user will likely zoom. YT is not a responsive website in example, neither is Twitter, nor Amazon. Not an excuse to not make responsive designs though.

@@nustaniel Does the website work when only using keyboard navigation? Does it make sense when relying on a screen reader? Are your headings in the right order? Proper use of alt text, the list goes on. Seems like you are conflating responsive design with accessibility, and also really over simplifying the work needed to make a website accessible. Aria attributes can't rescue a poorly planned or coded website.

@@grizfan93 If the site is using HTML elements like buttons and such instead of divs, then keyboard navigation will be largely usable, otherwise you may need to bring out tabindex="-1" to insert the custom element into the tab order, if you want it to be accessible. You may want to bring that out regardless of you want to tailor the tab order, but in many cases you will ruin the accessibility experience and mess up accessibility software that will otherwise jump through the page to a given section, by trying to be clever with the tab order. If you use labels, you don't need aria attributes to make a screen reader read out loud what an element's purpose is. Alt text on imagery isn't exactly difficult to add to a site and should be done regardless. Headings in the right order should be done regardless. Responsive design is a small part of accessibility and respecting the user choices, but not a must. Aria attributes is what you use to make custom elements behave with screen readers like the default elements. It's also not a huge undertaking to make your site accessibility friendly, even if you didn't start out thinking about it. It may already be plenty accessible as is and need minor additions and tweaks to be an even better experience.

@@grizfan93 RU-vid at it again not showing replies, so not sure if it's there or not. In any case, most sites will be perfectly accessible with default elements and common sense use of alt attributes on images and labels for input elements. Headings being in the right order shouldn't be an accessibility concern, that should be something you do regardless. And I barely mentioned responsive design as a nice bonus, so how you made my entire reply into that is baffling. But with that reading comprehension, I guess it makes sense why you'd think making a site accessible is a huge undertaking.

Just make sure they know that!

@@WesMcDowellInc they do. We send an automated reply letting them know.

@@WesMcDowellInc they sure do. We have an automatic responder saying as such.

You can see him drawing on an iPad while he’s talking

@@roofoofighter right, but I can't find a program that lets you illustrate over your screen

What about it?

Ha she’s doing great! But for those of us who aren’t Amy, probably best to play it by the book 😜

When there’s no clear cta? Watch an older person struggle with it and you’ll understand. Ppl won’t give it any time to figure it out either.

@@WesMcDowellInc I watch people use old websites. They cant figure out what you think is "clear" either. But the thing is, you shouldn't randomly be on a website in the first place. You should only be on a website to do something specific. That's your cta.

Ha if only it were that simple. If that were true marketing and advertising wouldn’t be multi billion dollar industries

Good one. You have the mindset of an early 2000 middle aged business guy that still think computers are a fad.

Advertising is just ideas that hit or miss. It's not that deep. Everything you mentioned will become a trend when the right person does it ​@@WesMcDowellInc

Terrible marketing can undermine a good product, so if the website is terrible, the user may never find out about the great product or service.

You are missing the point. The point he is making in the video is about colors, fonts, images, social buttons etc... because these can either make or break your website. Because how will people know you have good product or service if your so called product/service is buried bellow ton of useless information, weird/fake looking images and color's that only distract you and make your head hurt while trying to sort everything out. That was his point and he is right. You can have the best product in the world but what good it is when your customers can't find it or even believe a word's from your own website. 😅 Plus people have attention of goldfish these days and if the website isn't simple and doesn't lead straight to the product/service chances are they will just leave your website and click on someone's else website instead.