Archive for the 'Web Marketing' Category

Why a blog is good for your business

Do the experts keep telling you to get a blog? Are you unsure exactly what benefit your business will gain from it? Then read on. Many business owners think they should start a blog, perhaps with a vague idea that it might help their profile, but they don’t really know how or why. Or, more … Read more »

Fight the downturn and stay ahead… without spending a fortune

When the going gets tough, many businesses panic and start to cut back on the things that could actually keep them ahead of their competitors. It’s very easy to cut your advertising or cancel that new corporate brochure you promised yourself. Or you could let the company website stagnate for a while longer. A downturn … Read more »

Your web site is live. So what’s next? Answer: Keep the updates coming!

Once you get your shiny new website up and running, you may be thinking that the job is done, and all you have to do is sit back and wait for the business to roll in. But sadly it’s not as simple as that. Even if your web designer has submitted the site to the search … Read more »

10 Ways to make Google like your site

Google may not be the only search engine out there, but all the others are tiny in comparison. Over 90% of search engine traffic in the UK comes from Google, and that figure isn’t getting any smaller, despite the best efforts of Microsoft and Yahoo. So you need to make sure Google views your site … Read more »

The worst email mistakes amateurs keep making

Just like your website, email is one of the main faces of your business and often the first contact potential customers will experience. So you can’t afford not to do it properly. But ever since I started out in the business, people seem to have been making the same old mistakes over and over again. … Read more »

IT people are NOT designers or marketing experts

People who describe themselves as IT consultants aren’t usually experts at marketing and don’t often have a track record in design. The reverse is also true; Designers and Marketing people are not IT experts. The two are worlds apart. But in my experience, thanks to some questionable claims made by IT people, the average business … Read more »

You can’t fool a search engine

Search engines are a lot like humans. When somebody searches for something, a search engine reads the text on a page and decides how relevant the content is to what that person is searching for. It then decides how important that page is in relation to all the other pages that may also contain relevant … Read more »

Is your web site working for you? 10 tips to make sure it is!

So you’ve had your web site a while but you’re still waiting for all the business to start flooding in? It’s a familiar story. As a web designer I’m constantly amazed at some of the very basic mistakes I see on company web sites.Here are 10 tips that will help you get the most from … Read more »