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Please take a minute to review my site- www.sapphirewhisper.com

I can not get the majority of the traffic to stay more than 5 minutes on the home page. What's the problem, I've developed a lot of helpful content that I need to get the people to give it a chance and read. I'd appreciate any help and suggestions.

 

I thought it's an online shop because you have a lot of photos in your home page.
I believe you should add more text to your homepage. Currently I have to click different links to get to your articles.
You have About Sandra Alice page but you don't have a text describing what you site is about. At least I haven't found it.
Of course people leave your website. They simply don't know why they should stay longer.
Tell us about your site. I believe you'll have more readers if your site has a clear structure and about us page.

 

Thank you for taking your time to help and I am going to play around with changing the home page to be more clear.

 

The problem is the layout should be easy to understand and easy to navigate
It also should flow with a natural order
Don't make me think - make it easy to understand
You need a place for the items for sale, grouped by categories
also a place for articles and navigation that will guide me through your site to find what I want without thinking (pictures do help)
jewlery needs a picture of jewlery and labled, also clothing etc.
also why should I shop from you ??
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hope this helps
falcon

 

your website looks great! i would suggest you to use some tool for the pdf to show the content on your page only instead of downloading the pdf on users desktop. You can take the help of www.scribd.com