Simple SEO Steps that every business owner should take. You will reap the rewards in more traffic, better rankings in Google & see your profits go up. These steps below are from the horses mouth ( Matt Cutts is Google’s spokesman for SEO) Step One Get your page titles right for your business. Choose the [...]
10
Sep
Google Instant
Google has released a new search facility known as Google instant. In the normal Google search when you type in a search phrase Google will give you a few suggests – related Google searches. You had to pick what you want in the search box and click enter. With Google instant as you type the [...]
29
Mar
Tips to Be Found Online
I have not posted for a while. Been busy designing websites for small businesses. One trend i found is that a lot of my traffic comes from New Zealand Business directories. And the searches are very specific like- small business web design. Web design for small business or wordpress sites wordpress design etc. Last year [...]
14
Jul
15 benefits of WordPress sites
editing without needing to know HTML easy to update current events – takes a few minutes No uploading of files – like static HTML sites post-dating of articles so they can automatically “go live” in the future reader participation through comments organization of the content using tags – these are like signposts for search engines [...]
12
Dec
WordPress as CMS for businesses…
There is a lot of searches for the keywords in my title. Yes I see them at least twice a week on my blog stats. I suddenly realized the power of that plug in. It tells you where your visitor came from, what link they clicked and what keyword they used to find you! What [...]
15
Oct
Plan for holiday sales
Have you planned for your holiday sales activity? It is not tool late still. If you are a small retail business, you probably make most of your profit in the last quarter. Have you got your advertising in place? Have you allocated your expense for local paper ads, brochure mail box drops, radio spots etc? [...]
14
Oct
Pay-per-click
One of the fastest ways to get traffic to your site and see some sales is through pay-per-click or PPC. All 3 top search engines have pay-per-click programmes. Google is the best and you see instant results. It is very easy to open an account with Google. I cover the basics in the article Google [...]
10
Oct
Things to do when business is down
As a small business it is tough to ride the current recession and market turmoil. As people lose homes and jobs consumer spending will go down. And as a small business you will feel the pinch. Some tips to ride the downturn. Postpone any expansion for the next few months. Wait and see how quick [...]
09
Oct
Economic downturn
I am sure you have seen it on TV read in the newspaper. It is everywhere. The doom and gloom – the credit crunch the housing market collapsing etc. I am sure you know all these things are cyclical. Yes it is bad this time round due to the greed of those in Wall Street. [...]
