Time-Wasting Teasers
First Trick:
Put up attractive buttons with tantalizing titles that promise great content. Link them to pages with a nicely formatted header, one of those nifty "under construction" graphics and text to the effect that this page is "in progress" or "coming soon" -- and nothing else!
Second Trick:
Same as above, but make sure the ultimate destination is 3 or 4 pages away -- each of the intervening pages should have just enough information to make them think they're on the trail of something really useful. Then, for the punch line, the final page should be (1) as above, or (2) have content completely unrelated to the original topic.
Please... I've got work to do!
Bonus Trick:
No Text Navigation & Slow-Loading Buttons: this combination won't keep first-time curiosity seekers out, but it will sure any return visitors who know where thy want to go on your site and are in a hurry to get there. Better yet, replace the buttons with an over-large image map.