4 Steps to Increase Google Rankings

1. If you have something unique to say about your products or services make a small video clip and upload it to Youtube. Make sure you do the following Use accurate title and tags. ” Easy quick vegetarian cooking” tags – easy cooking,vegetarian cooking, quick vegetarian meals. Link back to your website. Enable user participation. […]

7 Reasons to redesign your website

In my line of work I redesign a lot websites for various reasons. Prospects contact me saying ” I can’t access my website” “I need to change my content  & design” ” The design is outdated” “I need to change the structure of the website” When you revamp your website for the above reasons you […]

Business Website Basics

I am going to cover some basics for a business website to attract customers, make them stay on your site & purchase your product or at least bookmark your site to return to. Every business whether you are a one man show or a large corporate needs an effective website to grow the business, to […]

Getting a Small Business Website

I learnt something yesterday. One of my clients bought an existing business. The business came a website that sold products online & makes a reasonable amount of money. What he did not bargain for was the website came with a contract with the web developing company. There was about 18 months left of the contract […]

Increase Traffic to Your Website with a Blog

A Blog is one of the best ways to drive traffic to a website; whether it be a corporate website, small business, or online shop. By adding great content to your blog regularly, you will provide useful resources to visitors and publish more pages for search engines to index. High quality articles will also generate […]

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? […]

10 Benefits of having a professional website design

Yesterday I was answering a question in a small business forum. The question – should I hire a web designer to design my website? My answer to that was Yes. 10 reasons why you should get a professionally designed website:- Good design means good first impression. (It does matter) Good design will invite customers – […]

5 Steps to Better Google Ranking

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 […]

Grow your small business

Grow your business with a marketable website. That is what I tell all my customers. All small businesses need a website for credibility – for your prospects to get more information about your products before contacting you. (Like an online brochure) Before you get your website up and running chart a marketing path. What are […]

Branding For Small Business

The other day I answered a question in Linkedin regarding branding for small business. The question was “Is branding important for small business?” The answer a big YES. The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines a brand as a “name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and […]