Quick Tip: Write Content for People NOT for Search Engines

Quick Tip: Write Content for People NOT for Search Engines

We all heard the ever-popular phrase “content is king”. Yes, it’s still true that search engines like websites that have lots of content that’s updated often. But this doesn’t mean that what you write should be computer lingo. Your content should be directed directly to your target audience because they’re the ones who will be reading and engaging with your website.

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Quick Tip: Use a Clean and Simple Navigation

Quick Tip: Use a Clean and Simple Navigation

Make browsing your website a pleasant experience, by creating a simple and user-friendly navigation. When the navigation is easy to use the users are comfortable using your website and can look through your website to find what they need.

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How To List Your Business Website in More Places

How To List Your Business Website in More Places

If you read my recent post on understanding and improving the Google PageRank for your small business website, you know a bit about the importance of inbound links. In addition to improving your search engine rankings, having your business website listed on many websites simply ups the odds that customers will find you. Here are a few ways you can get your website address out there on the Internet:

Claim your search engine listings. Google, Yahoo, and other search engines allow business owners to claim their listings. This allows you to make sure your website address is listed and control the way the search engines index your business. You can use www.getlisted.org to see how your business has been indexed by the top search engines and find out which listings you haven’t yet claimed.

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Quick Tip: Stumbleupon is a Cheap and Effective way to Advertise

Quick Tip: Stumbleupon is a Cheap and Effective way to Advertise

Take advantage of cheap, yet effective advertising via Stumbleupon.com. With Stumbleupon.com you can create an ad for as low as 5 cents, set your daily limits and target your market to specific age, gender and/or geographic location. Best of all your ad blends in like any other website, so the Stumbleupon community just stumbles it like any other page on the Internet.

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Is Printed Marketing Material Still Important?

Is Printed Marketing Material Still Important?
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What we couldn’t have possibly imagined just a decade ago has become a reality: everything has moved online. We shop online, we do our banking online, we play online, and we even socialize online. In addition, research shows that when making buying decisions, the first place people go to for researching their options is the Internet.

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Quick Tip: Create Videos to Demonstrate your Product or Services

Quick Tip: Create Videos to Demonstrate your Product or Services

Videos are a great way to show your customers a demo of your products or services when you’re not there in person. Create a short video demonstrating the benefits of your product/service and add it to your website for visitors to watch.

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Promote Your Website With Article Marketing

Promote Your Website With Article Marketing

Small business owners have been using article marketing for decades, but the Internet and new Web 2.0 sites have really increased its potential and popularity. The principle behind article marketing is pretty simple: the idea is to promote your business and website by writing articles to be published as free content on other Internet sites. These articles promote your business by including a link back to your website and a brief bio about you and your business. Writing quality articles and submitting them for publication on other sites is an investment of your time, but one that can have real benefits for your small business website.

Benefits of Article Marketing

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Quick Tip: Create a Call-to-Action on your Homepage

Quick Tip: Create a Call-to-Action on your Homepage

A website without a call-to-action leaves the visitor wondering what to do next when they arrive on your website. Create a call-to-action telling the visitor what you would like them to do after they arrive to your website. Don’t create a chance for the visitor to leave empty handed.

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Choosing the Best Web Hosting Provider

Choosing the Best Web Hosting Provider

In order to publish your small business website to the Internet, you’ll need to choose a web hosting provider. There are many web hosts to choose from, with prices ranging from free ad-based hosting to expensive monthly fees. Choosing a provider can seem a bit overwhelming, but if you start by figuring out what you need to run the website you want, you’ll be able to evaluate different web hosts much more easily. We use Startlogic.com, which offers us exactly what we need to host Design Leap.

Think of choosing a web hosting provider for your website as choosing a hotel to stay at on vacation. Your website has to stay somewhere in order to have access to the Internet, but some hotels will be a better fit than others. Do you really need a huge suite with a minibar and 24 hour room service? Or will a single room and a continental breakfast serve your needs just fine?

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Quick Tip: Comment on Forums to Drive More Traffic to Your Website

Quick Tip: Comment on Forums to Drive More Traffic to Your Website

Whatever industry you’re in there’s a forum for it. Choose a forum that best fits your business and start interacting. The best way is to answer questions, this will show that you’re an expert, and give you more value. Be sure to have a signature that includes your name, business name and contact information. Adding your website to your signature creates an extra entrance to your website. So the more comments you leave the more links you bring to your website.

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