Tip 23 – Use a website maintenance package

We have already talked about keeping your content up to date and how important that is. You may find that you don’t have the time, or perhaps you are struggling to understand a certain aspect of your website. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Most web design companies will offer a maintenance package to… Read more »

Tip 20 – Use advertising to promote your website

We have talked about how it is good to get as many legitimate links back to your website as possible. (Without using link farms, or buying links). It is also good to advertise your website when you first start up, to lift the initial awareness of your business and it’s website. There are several ways… Read more »

Tip 19 – Add sharing buttons to your website

We’ve talked about using social media accounts to promote your website, and to create links back to your website. It is also something you can do for your visitors. You can add facebook and twitter buttons on your website that link back to your own social media accounts so your visitors can follow you. But… Read more »

Tip 17 – Get a Twitter account

Twitter can be a difficult social media platform to understand. It appears at first look, to be dedicated to short text message type status updates. Who would be interested in that, you may well ask. But used in the correct way Twitter can be an invaluable networking tool. Twitter is about the present, what is… Read more »

Tip 11 – How to do Search Engine Optimisation

We mentioned a little bit about search engine optimisation in the previous tip, but without the long name. It is also known as SEO, and is something that has become so important in the internet industry that the phrase has also filtered down to the general public. Large companies will pay a lot of money… Read more »

Tip 10 – How to write good quality content

The search engines will rate the pages in your website based on the quality of the content. It should be unique, informative and interesting for your visitor. This is quite hard to do as there are probably thousands of websites online that will be covering the same topic/product as you. One thing you should definitely… Read more »

Tip 5 – Get found in search engines

The use of the word ‘web’ to describe the internet is very apt. The internet is like a giant spider’s web because all the websites are interlinked. It is essentially a massive network of computers all linked together to provide information for anyone anywhere in the world. Search engines send out little programs known as… Read more »