Writing For Your Website
There are two aspects in writing for your website. One is for the human visitor The other for the Search Engines Both of the above have to be balanced – otherwise you will either lose your website ranking, your visitors or both in the process. A few tips Write is small text blocks. Keep sentences […]
WordPress Sites For Small Business
All businesses must have a webisite these days. I am not saying this because I am a web designer. The following reasons are compelling Your website is an online brochure. (24/7) People can check out your services/products before contacting you A great marketing and advertising tool Lends credibility to your business. Use it to send […]
Short Lesson in SEO
If you are a small business owner you will want to generate leads through your website. If you are clever these leads can be free. To make this happen you have to rank well in search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing. This post tells you how to do quick SEO for your site. This […]
Website gets many compliments…
One of my customers who owns a boat tour business down the west coast of scenic South Island gets a lot of compliments for her website. She used to have a simple HTML site. I revamped the site for her about a year ago to a WordPress site. She saw a good jump in her […]
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 […]
Link Building
Search Engines place a lot of importance on links that are pointing to your website. Who links and how they link to you are what determines where your site will rank for competitive search queries. When we write content for our sites – about our products/services or about our strengths we tend to overdo & […]
Small Business websites
As a small business myself I know how important it is to have a website that is targeted at your customers. How many of you small business owners know Where your traffic is coming from How they are searching for you ? (keyphrase or keyword) Who is refering the visitor Which search engine sent you […]
Create Killer Graphics In Less Than Five Minutes
I tried on the online image creation program Snappa a few days ago. I needed to update my cover image for Facebook and Twitter pages. I read about Snappa from a marketing email that I receive. The email said that I could create an image for my blog or social media in less than five […]
49 websites or apps to learn something for free
Before the advent of Internet if you had to learn something you had to attend a course, an evening class in a community college or hire an instructor to learn the subject. Not anymore. With the Internet all you have to do is Google the subject or topic you want to learn about and you […]
Google to abandon older browsers
A recent news item stated “Google to abandon older browsers “. Google is phasing out support for older browsers from 1 August. Those using IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors to view Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites will then lose some functions. Eventually, it warned, these web services will stop working […]