These 7 common mistakes with your website can really hurt your search engine optimisation, rankings, traffic, conversions and branding. 1. Read my interview with the local newspaper Being interviewed by your local newspaper about your business may well be an exciting event for you-but … [Read more...]
Small Business Website Check List-21 Critical Questions to Ask
If you are a small business owner and don’t currently have a website but you are thinking about taking the plunge there are a number of essential factors you need to consider. Here are 21 things to think about when making the smart investment in a website for your small business. 1. What … [Read more...]
How to Get Your Website Content Indexed Quickly
You have written a great post for your website. Now what? Before your content can be ranked in the search engines it must firstly be indexed, that is listed in the index of web pages maintained by the search engines. Getting your website content indexed is easy … [Read more...]
What Should You Put On Your Website?
“What should I put on my website?” This was the question posed by Robert on LinkedIn this week in one of the group discussions. Robert’s new site is apparently geared towards the services that he can provide small business owners in Ireland. The answers, good and bad, … [Read more...]
How to Regularly Back Up Your WordPress Website on Autopilot
The thoughts of losing your Wordpress site files and/or database is enough to reduce a grown man to tears (this one anyway ). Wordpress based websites are actually divided into two broad sections: The database which contains all of the content on your site The site files which includes … [Read more...]
Why the Google Keyword Tool is Your Best Friend to Build a Great Website
If you want to build a great website with more visitors than just your wife/husband/partner/mother the Google Keyword Tool should be your best friend. This free tool, originally provided by Google for the benefit of it’s potential advertisers, is a rich source of great data when it comes to … [Read more...]
Are You Ignoring These 3 Great Sources of Free Data in Your Internet Marketing?
Developing your small business on the internet through great internet marketing with a well structured, content rich website is a tremendously cost effective and smart strategy. Once you have your website up and running you will need to keep an eye on some key metrics and sources of … [Read more...]
The Homer Simpson Guide to Building a Website with WordPress
My favourite episode of the Simpsons is the one in which Bart befriends a gay man down at the shopping mall. What freaked Homer out was that when he met the guy he looked and dressed so..well normal. At which point Homer exclaimed “I like my music loud, my beer cold and my homosexuals … [Read more...]
Amazon S3-The Best Solution for Storing Videos on Your Website
Having a content rich website which contains a lot of video and/or audio files is a smart strategy for a number of reasons including Providing great content for your visitors in an alternative format from text only and increasing the amount of time that visitors spend on your site which will … [Read more...]
How to Create a Header for Your Website
Having a nice header on your website or blog is important as it is the first thing your visitor will see when they land on your home page, or any page of your site for that matter. First impressions count and your header needs to convey whatever message you or your business needs to … [Read more...]
