On average, customers require at least 10 content pieces before they take action. Most small business websites present less than 10 pages of content. Therefore, a small business website typically does not meet the content needs of potential customers. Ideally, your small business website should generate content that captures potential customer leads. However, since customers...Read More
We’re in the last quarter of 2015, and it’s time to start thinking about the upcoming year. So much has changed in terms of web technology. Have you heard of “Mobilegeddon?” Besides technology, design standards are rapidly changing. People’s opinion of what looks good is evolving. So what’s changing in website trends for 2016? Let’s take...Read More
The average business completely redesigns their website every two or three years. Technology changes. Design changes. And most importantly – your business changes. And you should not only look at re-designing your website every 2-3 years, you should re-evaluate your content and consider a complete re-write as well. What was in vogue as early as...Read More
Have you reviewed your Google Analytics recently? Noticed your bounce rate sky-rocketing? It’s possible that your customers are leaving because your website is turning them away. Here are seven things that you want to avoid on your homepage, to keep customers from leaving before they read your content. 1. Outdated Design This one’s a no-brainer....Read More
When smartphones were just coming out (remember the Blackberry?), webmasters started thinking about optimizing their websites for mobile devices. At first, the trend was to create a separate website just for mobile devices. Typically, this separate website would be published at a subdomain – http://m.yourwebsite.com – and often times users would have the ability to...Read More
Finding a topic for your small business to blog about can be tricky. It seems like it’s always the times you set aside to write that writer’s block kicks in. Here are some tips for helping you choose blog content, as well as a list of some great blog topics for various industries to get...Read More
If you have a website that hasn’t yet been optimized for mobile, you have a big decision to make, and not doing anything is not an option. The choice becomes – do I retrofit my website for responsive design? Or should I create an entirely new website design that incorporates responsive design from the get-go?...Read More
On April 21st, we saw perhaps the largest update yet to Google’s Search Algorithm: Mobile-Friendliness is now being considered when Google returns search results on mobile devices. Has Google’s recent algorithm change made a real impact on business owners and their websites? 4 months later, here are some of the results of this large algorithm...Read More
If you own a business, you are constantly looking for ways to attract and engage with clients. And one of the most cost-effective ways to do so is through social media. You might be wondering how often should you post to social media – after all, you want to maximize your exposure without annoying your...Read More
It should come as no surprise that four out of five businesses increased their budget for social media marketing in the past four years. Social media is more than a fad or a passing trend – it is the new norm in terms of how people communicate, how they research things to do, find...Read More