Our web site is TINY by comparison to x10, yet we have managed to increase our overall revenues by over 1000% directly because of affiliate commissions.

Better to sell something for a commission that to lose your visitor forevermore.

What else could they have done with such a huge amount of traffic?

They could have offered visitors a referral affiliate program so that they could refer friends and family and perhaps earn a little something for their trouble.

X10 got off to a slow start here also.

They now have a program in place but all they offer you to earn is a credit to be used on those products that no one seems to want to buy anyway!

How about some entertainment?

They completely lost sight of "sticky" value.

Here you have a company that offers these great looking little cameras that will fit into palm of your hand yet all they do is DESCRIBE it!

They could have easily become a major "ENTERTAINMENT" center for those millions upon millions of visitors.

All they had to do was to hook up those cameras to "SHOW" people how they worked!

Visitors would have had a reason to stay longer than just 20 seconds and they would have had a great reason to come back for more.

The "Viral" effects of word-of-mouth, (or is that word-of-mouse?), would have kept those millions of visitors coming to their web site daily yet also it would have also allowed them to scale back on their advertising campaign expenditures.

And seeing practical example of how a product works helps product to sell itself.

A little creativity at x10 would have gone a long way.

It just goes to show you that even if you have millions of dollars to spend for exposure and you get millions of visitors to your web site, it won't do you any good if you don't know what to do with them.

1. State purpose of your website at very beginning of homepage.

2. Give a description, welcome, or presentation of your website on homepage if possible.

3. If you have a banner on your web page, place banner/graphic at very top of your page, before "any" writing (including your headline), or at very bottom of your web page, after your entire presentation.

4. Place your navigation links on left or right side of your web page. You may also place links at top and/or bottom of your page. But, try to avoid placing navigation links or graphics in middle of your web page presentation. This will distract visitor from reading important information about your website.

5. Narrow your website to only a few products which compliment one another. Concentrate on these at first, and then expand to other "related" products once you've built a solid visitor base.

The five above tips are given from experience. I've had to learn these methods through trial and error, but you can now learn from my experience and begin your new website with organization and an appeal to your visitors.

Use these tips to make a lasting impression on your visitors, and increase your potential for website success.