9 tips to cleaning up your websites

1) Linkbacks. Try to monitor what type of websites you link to. Take in consederiation the relavance of their site compared to yours, their pagrank, the quality of their content, and where you must link to them. Basically, if the website would be too much of a psuh away from you, don't link to them. Why should you consider their pagerank? Simple SEO. Read our search engine optimization guide for more on that.
2) Sloppieness. I reall find un needed banners such as hit counters, which look unprofessional. Likewise, music players, video, and other multimedia objects are pointless, and I usually close out of such sites.
3) Chatboxes. Probably one out of five sites I visti with a chatbox have the chatbox placed purposefully, and sometimes useful. They are also victims of spam, aswell.
4) Grammar. What annoys me the most is when people use improper grammar giving too many exclamation points, and smiley faces!!!! =D xP (LOL!!!!!!). Even your news posts, I look down upon it.
5) Content control. Honestly, pumping out daily updates is great, if it's even half decent. Personally, I am finished with making welcome and hiatus signs. If anyone uses them, great, but I doubt that happens often.
6) Targeting. Too often I run across beginning webmasters who feel that their link exchange friends are required to comment on their site often, and it seems like only their link exchange friends visit their site. Why have any content at all, then? Fellow webmasters most likely won't need your graphics.
7) Free web hosts.
A) Latency. Hosts like 000web, Freehostia, and Awardspace often take 3-6 seconds to load up pages. By that time, I'm hitting the big red X at the top of the screen
B) Ads. I AM NOT against webmasters implenting ads that flow with the design but free hosts are notorious for annoying ads.
C) Bandwidth. Most free hosts offer 50MBs-5GBs of bandwidth. On high monthes, Arid Seas burns through 5 GB a DAY. Likewise, AS is about 50GB.
D) If you are trying to sell me something, on a free hosted site, I'd just laugh away. No secure billing and I don't know where my personal infomration is going.
E) Domains. Simply, with a free domain, few people will take you seriously.
8) Unrelated content. On a webdesing site, simply don't post 'don't click this link' pages, don't blog about your extremely boring lives that nobody really cares about, and my personal pet peeve, overally political/opiniated/religious/etc. content on a, say, webdesign site (just a non related site). The banners usually look exceedingly sloppy; but really the reason is that it has the potential to drive away, or even offend people with other believes.
9) Clutter and low quality images. Don't put clipart, pictures of cute cats, or anything messy on your site. Just what is needed. This drives people away, for obvious reasons. Don't put flashy GIFS or anything related.