by csantos79 on 01/13/2010
Normally, if you want to have professional designers custom build your website, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can change if you know where to find the best deals, the best designs for the lowest price. Here’s a rough guide:
First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get companies to design websites for you. Have you ever seen those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500? These companies are established companies with physical locations, therefore they have to increase the amount they charge to pay off some overheads: office rent, designer’s wages, advertising costs and so on. [click to continue…]
by csantos79 on 01/12/2010
If you run a small company, you may find that the world of blogging for business owners is a world that you want to be a part of. Blogging is a great way to get the word out to consumers about your product or service, and it can even be useful for inspiring employee loyalty and helping you keep your workers at peak morale. If you are looking for a way to take your business to the next level, consider what starting a blog might be able to do for you. [click to continue…]
by csantos79 on 01/11/2010
There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors.
Major search engines use programs called crawlers or robots to index websites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, reads the content of the page and record it in their own database, pulling up the listing as people search for it. [click to continue…]
by csantos79 on 01/10/2010
When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.
1) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page. [click to continue…]
by csantos79 on 01/07/2010
Anyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of a business is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more sales. However, here are some ways that you can tweak your sites with to improve sales without the need to get more visitors.
The first method is to weave in your personal touch in your sales message. Nobody wants to be sold to by a total stranger, but many people will buy what their close friends recommend to them. If you can convince your audience that you are a personal friend who has their best interest at heart, they will be convinced to buy your products. Remember to speak to an individual in your salesletter, not to your whole audience. [click to continue…]
by csantos79 on 01/07/2010
A sitemap makes for easy indexing and site wide navigation, submitting a site map to Google, Yahoo and Bing increase the chance of having all your site pages indexed. Below you’ll have the opportunity to see why a sitemap is important for both your website and the search engines.
1) Navigation Purposes
A sitemap web page holds links to all your pages in your site directory. Some website visitors prefer to use a sitemap to navigate through a website. Others look at a sitemap to get an over view look at what your site has to offer. It is important that you place your important high valued links to wards the top of the page.
2) Conveying your site’s theme
When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors’ time.
3) Site optimization purposes [click to continue…]
by csantos79 on 12/31/2009
by csantos79 on 12/27/2009
It doesn’t matter what type of website you are building. In the end we all strive to build and increase free traffic (visitors) coming into our site. The major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing are predominantly the major source of free traffic for most of the websites currently live on the web.
In order for any website to start building free targeted traffic, you have to build and over deliver useful unique web content. Your content must be relevant to your site’s overall topic and must please both the search engines and your human visitors. [click to continue…]
