Small Business Websites

So you’ve got a great product. Let’s say it’s meditation tapes designed to decrease stress in people’s lives. The product includes a book and four audio CDs. You invest in a professional photographer to take great photos you can use throughout your website. One image is of the book, one of [...]

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I’ve just joined a new site, MyBlogPost.com as a regular writer. There are several of us, each with a different niche so there should be 1-2 new articles each day. My first post is called What Are You Giving Your Customers and is an important aspect of selling yourself or your product to [...]

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Take a look at your home page. It’s the first page people see when visiting your site. Does it have impact, clarity and interest grabbing images or text? Or is it bland, ordinary, unhelpful and difficult to use?
FACT: 85% of people ABANDON a new site due to poor design.
FACT: 50% of visitors are [...]

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Yes, and no. Fonts, type styles or text styles, usually look about the same on every website. I’ve heard it described as ‘boring’. But ‘boring’ has a purpose. When viewing a website, your computer can only show you what fonts it has installed on its hard drive. So, if the web [...]

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In this day and age of technology, if someone is visiting your website, it’s so much easier for them to fire off an email to you than to pick up the phone and call. As a result, many sites have their email address listed and when the link is clicked, it opens a mail [...]

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A page’s title is located in the blue (usually) bar at the top of your screen. For example, the title bar on this page says “Small Business Websites >> Blog Archive >> What Can a Page Title Do For My Business?” Page titles are the single most important thing in optimizing your site [...]

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Many webmasters rent space on a server in order to provide hosting to their customers for a fee. This way, they have more control over the technical aspects of the server, can load certain software easily and keep your site running optimally. While this sounds like a good idea, I do NOT recommend [...]

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‘Hosting’ is a service provided by a company in which they store your website’s files on their server. A ’server’ is really just a computer that stores information and makes it available over the internet. Without hosting, your website cannot be viewed by anyone. Your webmaster will upload or send your site’s [...]

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Some companies have been promoting private registration when registering your domain name. There are three levels of registration and anything above regular (or basic) will cost you extra each year. You may find this extra cost entirely worth it, depending upon your needs. To understand how each level is different, you need [...]

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Yours, yours, always yours, without question. You own your business, you should also own your domain name. You don’t want your house under someone else’s name. If you have a partnership or LLC, make sure the domain is registered under the company name. If you end up parting ways, the [...]

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