Technical:
- Please don’t keep your viewers guessing: provide clear menu and clean site structure.
- Use an SSL Certificate: you don’t want the browsers to display a warning to your guests!
- Optimise your website for speed: users tend not to trust slow websites (Bartuskova, Krejcar, 2025).
Social:
- Display Google, Trustpilot, or Facebook reviews.
- Embed logos of companies you’ve worked with, press mentions and awards.
- Link to social media presence.
Legal:
Depending on your location, the main data protection regulations are the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in the EU and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act).
- Display a Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, and Refund Policy (if appropriate).
- Clearly state how you collect, store, and use customer data in your Privacy Policy.
- Provide opt-in/opt-out options for cookies and data collection.
Bonus:
- Regularly check for broken links and remove outdated content.
- You might like to write me a few words about your frustrations, it will make you feel better.
Resources:
Bartuskova, A., & Krejcar, O. (2015). Loading Speed of Modern Websites and Reliability of Online Speed Test Services. In N.T. Nguyen, L. Iliadis, Y. Manolopoulos, & B. Trawiński (Eds.), Computational Collective Intelligence (pp. 65-74). Springer.
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