Your Site Quotes

#1. The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

Marc Ostrofsky

#2. Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.

Alexis Ohanian

#3. Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#4. Content is often the reason users come to your site.

Jesse James Garrett

#5. People will come to your site because you have good compelling content. You need to hit it from all angles: blog posts, articles, graphs, data, infographics, interactive content - even short pictures when you Tweet.

Chris Bennett

#6. If you're a publisher and you forbid deep linking into your site, or have a paid wall or registration requirement, then you're making it hard to 'point to' your content. When no one points to your content, your content is harder to find because search uses links as a proxy for popularity.

John Battelle

#7. Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better.

Jeremy Keith

#8. Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

Marc Ostrofsky

#9. Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#10. Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

Jakob Nielsen

#11. Day by day, the number of devices, platforms,
and browsers that need to work with your site grows.
Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift
in how we'll build websites for the decade to come.

Jeffrey Veen

#12. advertising or PR, which gives a short burst of traffic, search engine optimization can increase traffic to your site for months or years.

Jay Conrad Levinson

#13. The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.

Jason Calacanis

#14. Design your site so it looks professional

B. J. Fogg

#15. I don't think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.

Steve Krug

#16. Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

James Altucher

#17. Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#18. To have a .cn domain, you have to be a registered business. You have to prove your site is legal.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#19. For a consultative site, you cannot talk only about your company and its products. You must talk about how your visitors can solve their problems and the problems of the stakeholders they report to.

Brian Massey

#20. I love this site. It was lovingly hand-shaped it. Your soul transformed this into this art. It was perfect. I have tried to create another equal to it ... but to no avail, so I will just have to paint the Sistine Chapel.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#21. The rise of the citizen review site is a sobering development. No longer are you on top of the mountain, blasting your marketing message down to the masses through your megaphone. All of a sudden, the masses are conversing with one another. If your service or product isn't any good, they'll out you.

David Pogue

#22. If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

Christopher Lambert

#23. Now you can create your own Q&A site and be recognized as an expert on any topic you're passionate about in a way that is fast and easier than starting a new website.

Gil Penchina

#24. Post fast on good news or bad. Someone say something bad about your product? Link to it - before the second or third site does - and answer its claims as best you can.

Robert Scoble

#25. It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.

Marge Piercy

#26. Some people would ask: 'You are not the one who does the painting, or shot the work, how can it be your work?' But I was the one who chose which site we should use, and which assistant helps me to do the painting, or the shot.

Liu Bolin

#27. Keeping in mind the old mountain adage that the longer you take to set up your bivy site, the shorter the bivy you have to endure, we ended up taking two hours to dig the snow cave.

Erhard Loretan

#28. When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your father how much the boy earned each day. After asking the boy, he told Einstein: five cents.

Liu Cixin

#29. Posting your thoughts on any social media site is like telling you most deeply held secret to the town gossip. Not a wise move.

John Patrick Hickey

#30. Every page of content you've created could be the first interaction with your web site.Think of every page as a home page.

Jay Baer

#31. I've had an unbelievable life. I've been very lucky. You do create your own luck too, you know? I never forget where I'm from. Whenever I pass a building site or see somebody digging a ditch, I always think, 'That's real work.'

Liam Neeson

#32. I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.

Glenn Beck

#33. Death by a blow or just by the fall?" asked Detective Zach, who was standing beside me at the accident site. "Do you have maybe an X-ray machine with you?" I replied angrily. "After all, I would be grateful if I could have your finding today," said Zach.

Scott Andrew Selby

#34. Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

Richard Stallman

#35. I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.

Harry West

#36. Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.

Jeffrey Veen

#37. It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

Sebastian Bach

#38. Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.

Mike Davidson

#39. Companies from which I have purchased items are more than welcome to call me with a sale or discount. If I request information on your Web site, please call me. If I don't want your wares, calling me 15 times in a week will not change that.

Julie Ann Dawson

#40. I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.

Maureen Johnson

#41. Opinion is death. Opinion is plague. When it comes to web site management, trusting your gut is the last thing you should do.

Gerry McGovern

#42. The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you actually can buy the song and download the song to your computer hard drive.

Gene Hoffman

#43. If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

Joel Spolsky

#44. This nationality business helps you make a great story and satisfies your hunger for ascription of causes. It seems to be the dump site where all explanations go until one can ferret out a more obvious one (such as, say, some evolutionary argument that "makes sense"). Indeed,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#45. Firstly, we analysis your competitors and then helps you to raise your level by building the most effective website design and optimization which is suitable to your business site. This is a very necessary task to increase the ranking of your website.

Mark Batty

#46. Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.

Michael Birch

#47. The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

Bill Keller

#48. I'd have your back off-site too, if you'd let me." ~Cain, Ghost of You

Kelly Moran

#49. Google prefers a site that's dynamic and frequently updated. This doesn't mean that every page needs to change every day, but the addition and modification of content on the pages can enhance the experience for your customers and the search engines.

Rob Mabry

#50. To have transactions made on your web site via credit card, you must be PCI compliant. Businesses make the mistake of thinking that because you passed the requirements and are PCI certified, you are immune to attacks.

Kevin Mitnick

#51. If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte ... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Reed Hastings