A 30 minute guide to help you take your website to the next level. Discover simple to follow tips from the Webs pros regarding the top 6 key elements that make up a good website.
Plus! Gain insight into the top 5 mistakes that could spell disaster for your website.
This document discusses how to create Facebook ads and provides information about different types of Facebook ads. It explains page ads, website ads, event ads, sponsored stories, video ads, application ads, comment ads, polling ads, gift ads, and hybrid engagement ads. It also discusses Facebook advertising terminology like reach, engaged users, and organic, paid, and viral reach. Finally, it lists top job posting websites in the US, UK, Canada, and India.
The document outlines the key elements in web design, which can be categorized as the surface (visual design), skeleton (interface, navigation, and information design), and structure (information architecture and interaction design). It also discusses requirements and strategy. The surface focuses on visual aesthetics, the skeleton on usability, and the structure on organizing content. Additionally, the document contrasts designing for the web as a hypertext system versus a software application.
The document discusses the importance of businesses having websites for several reasons:
1) Most people now research companies online, so a website helps potential customers find a business more easily.
2) A website establishes credibility and gives off an impression of a larger, more successful company.
3) Specific advantages of websites include advertising a business at a lower cost than print, allowing customers to learn about and provide feedback on a business 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
A webpage is a document accessible using a web browser that can contain text, graphics, videos, sounds, and interactive elements. There are many website building tools available for designing webpages, such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Publisher, Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, Xprs, Voog, Strikingly, WordPress, Zohosties, GoDaddy, and Google Sites.
This document discusses search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). SEO involves optimizing a website to increase its organic ranking in search engines, while SEM involves purchasing paid placements or inclusions in search engines on a cost-per-click basis. The document provides tips for SEO, such as choosing keyword-rich domain names and titles, building relevant inbound links, and submitting the site to search engines. It also discusses when SEM may be preferable to SEO and recommends approaches for the University of South Australia.
This document discusses the key principles and elements of web design, including purpose, communication, typeface, colors, images, navigation, and layouts. It explains that the purpose is to fulfill a goal, communication aims to absorb information quickly, typeface is dominant visually, colors enhance experience, images deliver messages, navigation allows moving through pages, and layouts arrange content physically using grids, F-patterns, or mobile designs. It also mentions load time impacts a website's success.
The document provides an overview of the key steps to build a website, including picking a domain name, registering the domain with an accredited registrar, determining site design and features, deciding whether to build it internally or hire a professional, budgeting costs, selecting a hosting provider, and planning for ongoing updates and content management. It emphasizes choosing a short, easy-to-remember domain name; considering accessibility and usability; testing the site thoroughly; and keeping content fresh to encourage return visitors.
The document provides guidelines for designing an effective website. It discusses 8 key principles: 1) defining the website purpose, 2) communicating information concisely, 3) using readable typefaces, 4) implementing appropriate color combinations, 5) including impactful images, 6) enabling easy navigation, 7) employing usable layouts, and 8) optimizing load time. The guidelines stress making the website eye-catching, curious, well-organized and easy to understand in a short time.
This document discusses how to create Facebook ads and provides information about different types of Facebook ads. It explains page ads, website ads, event ads, sponsored stories, video ads, application ads, comment ads, polling ads, gift ads, and hybrid engagement ads. It also discusses Facebook advertising terminology like reach, engaged users, and organic, paid, and viral reach. Finally, it lists top job posting websites in the US, UK, Canada, and India.
The document outlines the key elements in web design, which can be categorized as the surface (visual design), skeleton (interface, navigation, and information design), and structure (information architecture and interaction design). It also discusses requirements and strategy. The surface focuses on visual aesthetics, the skeleton on usability, and the structure on organizing content. Additionally, the document contrasts designing for the web as a hypertext system versus a software application.
The document discusses the importance of businesses having websites for several reasons:
1) Most people now research companies online, so a website helps potential customers find a business more easily.
2) A website establishes credibility and gives off an impression of a larger, more successful company.
3) Specific advantages of websites include advertising a business at a lower cost than print, allowing customers to learn about and provide feedback on a business 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
A webpage is a document accessible using a web browser that can contain text, graphics, videos, sounds, and interactive elements. There are many website building tools available for designing webpages, such as Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Publisher, Squarespace, Weebly, Wix, Xprs, Voog, Strikingly, WordPress, Zohosties, GoDaddy, and Google Sites.
This document discusses search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM). SEO involves optimizing a website to increase its organic ranking in search engines, while SEM involves purchasing paid placements or inclusions in search engines on a cost-per-click basis. The document provides tips for SEO, such as choosing keyword-rich domain names and titles, building relevant inbound links, and submitting the site to search engines. It also discusses when SEM may be preferable to SEO and recommends approaches for the University of South Australia.
This document discusses the key principles and elements of web design, including purpose, communication, typeface, colors, images, navigation, and layouts. It explains that the purpose is to fulfill a goal, communication aims to absorb information quickly, typeface is dominant visually, colors enhance experience, images deliver messages, navigation allows moving through pages, and layouts arrange content physically using grids, F-patterns, or mobile designs. It also mentions load time impacts a website's success.
The document provides an overview of the key steps to build a website, including picking a domain name, registering the domain with an accredited registrar, determining site design and features, deciding whether to build it internally or hire a professional, budgeting costs, selecting a hosting provider, and planning for ongoing updates and content management. It emphasizes choosing a short, easy-to-remember domain name; considering accessibility and usability; testing the site thoroughly; and keeping content fresh to encourage return visitors.
The document provides guidelines for designing an effective website. It discusses 8 key principles: 1) defining the website purpose, 2) communicating information concisely, 3) using readable typefaces, 4) implementing appropriate color combinations, 5) including impactful images, 6) enabling easy navigation, 7) employing usable layouts, and 8) optimizing load time. The guidelines stress making the website eye-catching, curious, well-organized and easy to understand in a short time.
The document discusses strategies for optimizing a website and online presence for local SEO. It covers topics like optimizing title tags and meta descriptions to include location, adding address and phone number to all pages, creating location-specific pages, embedding maps, using local markup schemas, and building citations from locally relevant directories and business listings sites. The goal is to clearly signal to search engines that the business is local and target local customers by including location details throughout the online presence.
This document provides an overview of web design, including its key elements and principles. It defines web design as the process of creating and arranging visual elements like layout, color, graphics, and fonts to present content on web pages for end users. The document outlines the main elements of web design and discusses factors that contribute to creating user-friendly designs, such as navigation, multimedia, compatibility, and technology. It emphasizes the importance of consistency in design and provides recommendations for developing a website.
This document provides an overview of the web and web design. It discusses the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web, and how web browsers access web pages from the Internet. There are different types of websites, including commercial, portal, informational, educational, and personal sites. Web pages contain various elements like text, graphics, multimedia, and hyperlinks that link pages together. The web design process involves interaction, information, and presentation design. It also identifies careers in web authoring, design, development, and webmastering.
SEO Audits contain both an internal analysis and external analysis. You gain a general understanding of your share of the SEO market (external), while identifying how well your website is optimized to obtain additional market share (internal).
The document is a technical SEO audit report for a client site that examines the site's search engine visibility and ranking factors. It provides grades and notes for various categories including domain health, keywords, page structure, site content, linking, and technical aspects. It identifies opportunities for improvement such as optimizing current content, fixing technical issues, improving internal linking, optimizing the blog, expanding content, updating the XML sitemap, and consolidating domain authority. The report also provides prioritized recommendations for addressing the identified issues.
The document discusses search engine optimization (SEO) and why businesses should care about it. SEO is the process of improving a website to increase its visibility in organic search engine results. It involves optimizing elements like titles, meta descriptions, headings, internal links, and external links from other websites. Regularly updating content and focusing on relevant keywords can help rank higher in search engines over time.
This is the slideshow that I made to follow along in my Facebook Ads Course. I decided to upload it for everybody to take advantage of.
If you are interested in learning more about my Facebook Ads Masterclass head to
https://course.rds.marketing
Search engines are the primary source of traffic for most websites. Search engines work by using web crawlers or spiders to scan the internet, index website content, and display search results according to relevance. The top search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Myway. Search engine optimization (SEO) involves on-page techniques like optimizing content, keywords, descriptions and page layout, as well as off-page techniques like link building through blog and article submissions, social networking, and directory submissions to improve a website's visibility in search engine results.
An introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and web analytics on fao.orgFAO
This document provides an introduction to search engine optimization (SEO) and web analytics. It outlines the objectives of optimizing web pages for visitors and search engines. The document explains how to apply basic SEO concepts like keywords, page titles, descriptions and links. It also discusses how to analyze user behavior and monitor key metrics using Google Analytics. Site visitors and search engine crawlers are able to find and index optimized pages. The document aims to teach the audience how to improve their website's visibility and understand user interactions.
Topics covered in MyLivPro's Digital Marketing tutorial:
What is Digital Marketing?
Framework of Digital Marketing
Digital Marketing Strategy
Market Research
Content Marketing Strategy
User Experience Design
Web Development and Design
Writing for Digital
Customer Relationship Management
Search Engine Optimization
Search Advertising
Online Advertising
Affiliate Marketing
Video Marketing
Social Media Channels
Social Media Strategy
Email Marketing
Mobile Marketing
Data Analytics
Conversion Optimization
You can also watch our video tutorial on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oqg3jYaT0eP6v_JJvudSA
The document discusses content management systems (CMS), which combine databases, file systems, and other software to store and retrieve large amounts of data like text, audio, video, and images. CMS allow non-technical users to contribute and manage website content through a graphical interface. The document provides details on CMS workflows, participants, content categorization, features, needs, selection criteria, benefits, and compares some common CMS options.
On-page SEO (also known as on-site SEO) refers to the practice of optimizing webpages to improve a website's search engine rankings and earn organic traffic. In addition to publishing relevant, high-quality content, on-page SEO includes optimizing your headlines, HTML tags (title, meta, and header), and images.
Jayam Web Solutions is a leading web design company in Chennai that offers mobile responsive and SEO friendly website designs in realistic price. We have 13 years of experience in this industry thus we can serve clients world-wide for all their website design requirements.
This document provides an overview of search engine optimization (SEO) services. It outlines the SEO process which includes website analysis, keyword research, on-page optimization, link building, and maintenance. The SEO process aims to help a website rank higher in search engine results pages through both technical and content optimization strategies. Contact information is provided to inquire further about SEO services.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website in unpaid search engine results. SEO helps search engines understand what a page is about and how useful it may be for users. Without SEO, a website can be invisible to search engines. SEO is important because the majority of search engine users choose results on the first page, so ranking highly increases visitors and customers. SEO involves on-page techniques, like optimizing content, meta tags and URLs, and off-page techniques, like backlinks, social sharing and forum posting, to improve a website's visibility.
Embark on the journey of Digital Marketing excellence with the 5 Cs! 🌐
Craft compelling Content, understand your audience with Context, build a thriving Community, tailor strategies with Customization, and maintain effective communication channels.
Elevate your digital presence today! 🚀✨
The document provides guidance on basic web design principles and elements. It outlines 7 principles for effective web design: 1) use a consistent visual language, 2) maintain balance, 3) limit choices to avoid overwhelming users, 4) focus on high-quality content, 5) simplify designs, 6) use a grid-based layout, and 7) optimize page load times. It also describes 6 key design elements: navigation, visual design, content, web compatibility, color scheme, and typography. The document emphasizes usability, engaging the user, and conveying the intended message through thoughtful application of design principles and elements.
What is SEO? - Basic SEO Guide for Beginners.pptxGeromme Talampas
SEO is the practice of optimizing a website to increase organic search engine rankings and traffic. Key aspects of SEO include on-page optimization through keyword research, content writing and structural elements, as well as off-page optimization such as link building. When done effectively over time, SEO provides free traffic and exposure that can convert visitors into customers and sales.
The document discusses strategic approaches to eMarketing, beginning with understanding goals, objectives, and success criteria. It emphasizes that tactics alone do not guarantee success without an overarching strategy. The document then provides recommendations for strategic eMarketing tactics including optimizing websites for usability, search engine friendliness, and appearance to attract, convert, and retain customers. It also stresses the importance of search engine marketing through both organic search engine optimization and paid search advertising.
The document discusses the principles and elements of good website design using online creative tools. It outlines 9 key principles: 1) website purpose, 2) simplicity, 3) navigation, 4) F-shaped pattern reading, 5) visual hierarchy, 6) content, 7) grid-based layout, 8) load time, and 9) mobile friendly design. It emphasizes the importance of simplicity, intuitive navigation, following users' natural reading patterns, clear visual hierarchy to guide users' attention, compelling content, structured grid-based layouts, optimizing for fast load times, and responsive design for mobile devices. The document provides guidance on implementing each principle through design considerations like color, typography, imagery, and layout.
The document discusses strategies for optimizing a website and online presence for local SEO. It covers topics like optimizing title tags and meta descriptions to include location, adding address and phone number to all pages, creating location-specific pages, embedding maps, using local markup schemas, and building citations from locally relevant directories and business listings sites. The goal is to clearly signal to search engines that the business is local and target local customers by including location details throughout the online presence.
This document provides an overview of web design, including its key elements and principles. It defines web design as the process of creating and arranging visual elements like layout, color, graphics, and fonts to present content on web pages for end users. The document outlines the main elements of web design and discusses factors that contribute to creating user-friendly designs, such as navigation, multimedia, compatibility, and technology. It emphasizes the importance of consistency in design and provides recommendations for developing a website.
This document provides an overview of the web and web design. It discusses the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web, and how web browsers access web pages from the Internet. There are different types of websites, including commercial, portal, informational, educational, and personal sites. Web pages contain various elements like text, graphics, multimedia, and hyperlinks that link pages together. The web design process involves interaction, information, and presentation design. It also identifies careers in web authoring, design, development, and webmastering.
SEO Audits contain both an internal analysis and external analysis. You gain a general understanding of your share of the SEO market (external), while identifying how well your website is optimized to obtain additional market share (internal).
The document is a technical SEO audit report for a client site that examines the site's search engine visibility and ranking factors. It provides grades and notes for various categories including domain health, keywords, page structure, site content, linking, and technical aspects. It identifies opportunities for improvement such as optimizing current content, fixing technical issues, improving internal linking, optimizing the blog, expanding content, updating the XML sitemap, and consolidating domain authority. The report also provides prioritized recommendations for addressing the identified issues.
The document discusses search engine optimization (SEO) and why businesses should care about it. SEO is the process of improving a website to increase its visibility in organic search engine results. It involves optimizing elements like titles, meta descriptions, headings, internal links, and external links from other websites. Regularly updating content and focusing on relevant keywords can help rank higher in search engines over time.
This is the slideshow that I made to follow along in my Facebook Ads Course. I decided to upload it for everybody to take advantage of.
If you are interested in learning more about my Facebook Ads Masterclass head to
https://course.rds.marketing
Search engines are the primary source of traffic for most websites. Search engines work by using web crawlers or spiders to scan the internet, index website content, and display search results according to relevance. The top search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Myway. Search engine optimization (SEO) involves on-page techniques like optimizing content, keywords, descriptions and page layout, as well as off-page techniques like link building through blog and article submissions, social networking, and directory submissions to improve a website's visibility in search engine results.
An introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and web analytics on fao.orgFAO
This document provides an introduction to search engine optimization (SEO) and web analytics. It outlines the objectives of optimizing web pages for visitors and search engines. The document explains how to apply basic SEO concepts like keywords, page titles, descriptions and links. It also discusses how to analyze user behavior and monitor key metrics using Google Analytics. Site visitors and search engine crawlers are able to find and index optimized pages. The document aims to teach the audience how to improve their website's visibility and understand user interactions.
Topics covered in MyLivPro's Digital Marketing tutorial:
What is Digital Marketing?
Framework of Digital Marketing
Digital Marketing Strategy
Market Research
Content Marketing Strategy
User Experience Design
Web Development and Design
Writing for Digital
Customer Relationship Management
Search Engine Optimization
Search Advertising
Online Advertising
Affiliate Marketing
Video Marketing
Social Media Channels
Social Media Strategy
Email Marketing
Mobile Marketing
Data Analytics
Conversion Optimization
You can also watch our video tutorial on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3oqg3jYaT0eP6v_JJvudSA
The document discusses content management systems (CMS), which combine databases, file systems, and other software to store and retrieve large amounts of data like text, audio, video, and images. CMS allow non-technical users to contribute and manage website content through a graphical interface. The document provides details on CMS workflows, participants, content categorization, features, needs, selection criteria, benefits, and compares some common CMS options.
On-page SEO (also known as on-site SEO) refers to the practice of optimizing webpages to improve a website's search engine rankings and earn organic traffic. In addition to publishing relevant, high-quality content, on-page SEO includes optimizing your headlines, HTML tags (title, meta, and header), and images.
Jayam Web Solutions is a leading web design company in Chennai that offers mobile responsive and SEO friendly website designs in realistic price. We have 13 years of experience in this industry thus we can serve clients world-wide for all their website design requirements.
This document provides an overview of search engine optimization (SEO) services. It outlines the SEO process which includes website analysis, keyword research, on-page optimization, link building, and maintenance. The SEO process aims to help a website rank higher in search engine results pages through both technical and content optimization strategies. Contact information is provided to inquire further about SEO services.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website in unpaid search engine results. SEO helps search engines understand what a page is about and how useful it may be for users. Without SEO, a website can be invisible to search engines. SEO is important because the majority of search engine users choose results on the first page, so ranking highly increases visitors and customers. SEO involves on-page techniques, like optimizing content, meta tags and URLs, and off-page techniques, like backlinks, social sharing and forum posting, to improve a website's visibility.
Embark on the journey of Digital Marketing excellence with the 5 Cs! 🌐
Craft compelling Content, understand your audience with Context, build a thriving Community, tailor strategies with Customization, and maintain effective communication channels.
Elevate your digital presence today! 🚀✨
The document provides guidance on basic web design principles and elements. It outlines 7 principles for effective web design: 1) use a consistent visual language, 2) maintain balance, 3) limit choices to avoid overwhelming users, 4) focus on high-quality content, 5) simplify designs, 6) use a grid-based layout, and 7) optimize page load times. It also describes 6 key design elements: navigation, visual design, content, web compatibility, color scheme, and typography. The document emphasizes usability, engaging the user, and conveying the intended message through thoughtful application of design principles and elements.
What is SEO? - Basic SEO Guide for Beginners.pptxGeromme Talampas
SEO is the practice of optimizing a website to increase organic search engine rankings and traffic. Key aspects of SEO include on-page optimization through keyword research, content writing and structural elements, as well as off-page optimization such as link building. When done effectively over time, SEO provides free traffic and exposure that can convert visitors into customers and sales.
The document discusses strategic approaches to eMarketing, beginning with understanding goals, objectives, and success criteria. It emphasizes that tactics alone do not guarantee success without an overarching strategy. The document then provides recommendations for strategic eMarketing tactics including optimizing websites for usability, search engine friendliness, and appearance to attract, convert, and retain customers. It also stresses the importance of search engine marketing through both organic search engine optimization and paid search advertising.
The document discusses the principles and elements of good website design using online creative tools. It outlines 9 key principles: 1) website purpose, 2) simplicity, 3) navigation, 4) F-shaped pattern reading, 5) visual hierarchy, 6) content, 7) grid-based layout, 8) load time, and 9) mobile friendly design. It emphasizes the importance of simplicity, intuitive navigation, following users' natural reading patterns, clear visual hierarchy to guide users' attention, compelling content, structured grid-based layouts, optimizing for fast load times, and responsive design for mobile devices. The document provides guidance on implementing each principle through design considerations like color, typography, imagery, and layout.
Do you ever feel like your small business website is not working for you the way it should? Even if you made a substantial initial investment into your site, there may be issues that still need to be resolved before it can become an effective sales tool for you.
In this workshop, we will go over the most common reasons websites do not perform the way small business owners expect them to and what to do to fix it. Each issue that is presented will have an actionable item you can take with you to solve the problem. If you have not built your website yet, you will be given sound direction to make sure your website is built to perform.
Major Takeaways
• Websites are more than just design
• Site content & usability matter
• No focus, no ranking
• If you don’t call them to action, they won’t act!
• Don’t forget, Google is judgmental
This document provides guidance on creating an effective website. It discusses that a great website should be goal-oriented, intuitive, organized, useful, functional, and search-friendly. Each of these qualities is then expanded on, with tips provided. Goal-orientation means having a clear purpose that aligns with business goals. Intuitiveness requires easy navigation and usability across devices. Organization relies on a well-planned information architecture. Usefulness is achieved through useful and engaging content. Functionality allows users to perform actions like searching or making purchases. And search-friendliness ensures the site can be discovered by search engines.
HOW UX IS IMPORTANT FOR SEARCH ENGINE MARKETINGkirti sharma
UX and SEO are related: UX is very much a part of SEO. It is one of the prime factors that will take you high in the SEO game. Users look forward to an experience that goes in line with their preferences and fulfills every bit of their requirements.
Internet marketing in 2013 by Tomer Harel @ KeyScouts.comTomer Harel
Discussing how to set an online marketing strategy and how to build a growing stream of targeted traffic to your website using three core principles that anyone can follow. Highlight what really works for businesses in social media, how to do content marketing and the critical SEO mistakes you should avoid in 2013 and beyond.
As the World Turns: How Trends are Affecting Marketing ProgramsIABC Houston
How will technology impact your business in 2011? Rob Bartlett and Susan Farrell share trends, tools and techniques to better help you manage your communications practice in changing times.
The document discusses various challenges that may arise at different stages of a marketing campaign and potential solutions to overcome those challenges. It covers roadblocks related to website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, content development, email marketing, mobile compatibility, and landing pages. For each roadblock, it provides a brief description and recommends tools or techniques to address the issue, such as using analytics tools to understand website visitors, geo-targeting strategies for location searches, and dedicated landing pages to increase lead generation.
The document discusses content strategy and provides 11 tips for getting online content under control. It defines what content strategy is and its key components. It emphasizes the importance of understanding user needs and business goals. The tips include writing a purpose statement, auditing existing content, defining target users, prioritizing content initiatives, and establishing governance through guidelines and an editorial calendar. The overall message is that a content strategy helps ensure an organization's online content is useful, usable, and supports its goals.
How Does Psychology Affect the Design of Your Landing Page?Lander Inc
Have you ever wondered why some landing pages have high conversion rates and others have almost no traffic? What separates high converting landing pages from low-performing ones may not be complex design secrets. It could be a matter of psychology.
This document outlines 10 tips for ensuring web technology supports marketing strategies. The tips are: 1) Make a commitment to finding the right content management solution, 2) Have a user-friendly foundation for adding content and pages, 3) Minimize integrating different systems, 4) Pay attention to details like URLs and metadata, 5) Make analytics and data accessible and actionable, 6) Move beyond just the homepage, 7) Automate related content to build momentum, 8) Individualize experiences for different audiences, 9) Ensure responsive design for different devices, and 10) Manage integrated campaigns rather than separate sources. The document advocates for an integrated web content management platform to support modern marketing needs.
The document discusses strategies for optimizing a website for search engine rankings. It emphasizes the importance of user experience factors like dwell time and bounce rates in determining relevance. It recommends including engaging content like video and easy-to-read sections to improve user experience. Additionally, it highlights the need to optimize sites for mobile searches, as most searches now occur on mobile devices and Google prioritizes mobile-friendly pages in its mobile-first index. Link building is also still considered an important SEO tactic.
The document discusses usability best practices for websites. It provides examples of both good and bad usability, highlighting key principles like clear navigation, scannable content, and using design to enhance the user experience. It emphasizes measuring success through analytics and testing with users.
This document provides guidance on improving website usability through good design, content, and storytelling. It discusses organizing content so it is easy to scan, using headlines, white space and chunking. Key points include focusing on the user's goals, using concise and scannable writing, and measuring success through analytics. Storytelling with images and examples can help engage users.
This document discusses search engine optimization (SEO) and Facebook advertising. It begins by defining SEO as optimizing a website to perform well in search engine results pages. It then provides tips for SEO, including optimizing titles, meta tags, images and more. It also discusses using plugins for related posts, redirection, and pagination. The document then shifts to discussing Facebook advertising, noting its benefits of reach, targeting, and engagement. It provides tips on defining goals and testing for Facebook ads. In the end, it provides contact information for the author to learn more about SEO and Facebook marketing.
This document outlines essential elements for an effective purpose-driven website, including:
1) Proper design with a logo, navigation, and calls to action. Font and layout should follow general rules.
2) Meaningful content that answers questions using appropriate language and keywords to define goals and opportunities.
3) Technical elements like forms and calculators that work properly with tracking implemented.
4) Clear sales messaging with calls to action, contact details, and tracking of goals and conversions.
5) Search engine optimization considerations like keywords, meta tags, links, and analytics.
The document provides a digital marketing strategy and proposal for IMS Noida. It includes an agenda, client brief, digital landscape analysis, market analysis, competitive analysis, suggested working areas, and a marketing plan and deliverables. The client brief involves developing a mobile app and promoting a PGDM entrepreneurship program. The digital landscape, market analysis, and competitive analysis of AMITY University are also covered. Suggested working areas include website revamp, mobile presence, landing pages, social media, content marketing and more. The marketing plan outlines deliverables over 45 days including launching landing pages, ads, blogs, emails and more.
As a business owner, your unique selling proposition is the core of your commercial appeal. It defines why your customers should choose you instead of your competitors.
The following infographic offers a framework for crafting your unique selling proposition that is distinct, memorable and compelling.
Integration Between Online and Traditional MarketingWebs
Today, marketing professionals and business owners can tap into countless marketing channels. Modern technologies and social media may be all the rage when it comes to promoting businesses, but marketing professionals and business owners aren't counting out traditional marketing methods.
Small business have become the preferred place for adults to work. As a result, small business owners are no longer a homogeneous group of middle-aged, wealthy men. Today they are a mixed group from every age and background.
Easy-to-follow guide on how to promote a website. Discover:
- Social media bookmarking sites you can use
- Online Directories that matter
- Article Marketing and why it's important
- Where to submit your Press Releases
Branding means creating a powerful, well-executed identity for your small business. Want to make your business stand out? Here are the key elements of branding.
How much does a website cost - DIY or Hire a Pro?Webs
Every small business owner confronts a tough decision: should you build a website yourself or hire a professional to take care of it? The following infographic provides a helpful flowchart to illustrate the expected completion times and average costs for creating a do-it-yourself website with a builder vs. hiring the pros to do it for you.
2013 Website Trends - Trends in Form & FunctionWebs
The following infographic outlines emerging website development and design trends that will come as a result of the growing popularity of smartphones and tablets.
The document discusses the freemium business model and the importance of A/B testing for improving conversion rates. It provides an overview of how Webs uses a freemium model to attract millions of free users and then employs A/B testing and cohort analysis to optimize the user experience and increase monetization through paid upgrades. Key points include how testing small changes like buttons, copy, forms can have major impacts on signups and revenue, and how segmenting users allows testing effects on different groups to be analyzed over time. The document advocates that continuous testing is crucial for freemium companies to rapidly iterate and better serve their large free user bases.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
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Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
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This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
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12. ELEMENT 2: Relevant Content
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to allow it to create a powerful impact. Should be prominent and doesn’t get lost
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Okay, let’s dive right in with Element 1: Good Visual Design.Design is an all encompassing word for all the visuals elements of your website – logo, font(s), white space, theme/template, layout and colors.If you do a Google search for website design you’ll see that one of the biggest trends is “designing to the grid”.This system of design pretty much ensuresa good looking site, since it takes into account things like white space and readability.The grid also helps to keeps your layout consistent throughout your site making navigation easier.So lets start with the header, it’s this area at the top of this page.Think of it as your marquee and it should include your logo, but if you don’t have one, you should display your organization or site’s name here.For Webs templates and themes, our designers have done a lot of the design work for you; you just need to just pick out the appropriate theme, and then customize it with your colors and imagery.One thing to remember about color usage is that colors can have different emotions and states of feeling associated with them, and because of that some are much more effective then others.For example, think about that last time you visited a fast food establishment – you probably saw a lot of red, white and yellow.Those are the colors of condiments and are used because they are associated with food and hunger.Let’s move on and see how we can improve website design…
Themes/templates do a lot of the work for you. They make your site focused, understandable and apparent.Think of a theme as not only “controlling the colors and choices” but also the placement of your content.A theme ultimately has blocks of buckets that need to be filled with your content, images and text.You can see that the site on the left, our bad example, has no real theme.And because of that the site looks unprofessional and amateurish.There is a lot of color, but using all of that color really has no meaning,.There are also a lot of different fonts, and the side-by-side pictures/graphics aren’t sized the same,making the page look like it’s not properly loading.The site on the right though, is appropriately themed to match the subject matter. The theme makes it easy to just put your content in the pages, organize and present your site to customers and potential customers.The theme even pre-defines the use of colors, fonts and sizes to give a polished look.Remember to pick a theme that works with your content, for example, you probably wouldn’t feel to comfortable using a plumber who has chosen this as their template.
Fonts should be easy to read and appropriate for the intended targeted audience and by that we mean if you’re building a site aimed at Seniors you may want to use a larger font.These examples emphasize fonts and their readability.Keep in mind that reading on monitor causes more eye-stain than reading a printed document. To help reduce eye strain, typographers developed bunch of “web fonts” when the web took root.They are designed and used to increase readability – they are general “Arial, Verdana, Helvetica”.These are also readily available on most computers – which means that your font will render pretty much the same on any user’s computer.Our example on the left contains a lot of fonts. 5 or more… When you view the website, you can read most of them, but below the bright pink box is a light blue cursive font. It is really hard to read this against the grey brick background. Additionally, it’s worth mentioning that since this isn’t a standard “web font” the font doesn’t display the same on every computer.The site on the right is much better.It uses fonts that render across computers because they’re defined by the theme. The theme keeps the rules of font-usage consistent and which makes the site easy on the eyes.All of the headings are red, the text is black and the main area’s font is all the same regardless of usage.The content on the right which is a different font, signals a difference in importance. But I am sure some of you are probably saying “but that site also has the ‘handmade in USA’ text”. Well that text is actually a graphic, as are the ROC and Facebook logos.Their usage and coloring make them stand out but not as part of the textual content of the page.Because logos usually carry a “branded font” they are most often displayed as graphicsto ensure that the logo always looks correct and within brand guidelines.
Which brings us to logo usage.Logos are your brand’s badge they should be memorable and portray what you stand for.It’s what makes you identifiable.Believe it or not, the website on the left is for a pizza place, and their logo is the icon on the far left.But the treatment of the logo on this site makes it get lost with all the other imagery.You’re logo should be predominately displayed.It shouldn’t ever get lost with a bunch of other icons and logos like Joe’s does.If you have branding guidelines, or are developing them, one thing you should include in them is the amount of spacing required around the logo. The site on the right is a better example because the logo for Bella Spa is front and center of the header.Their logo is the text and butterfly above the graphic of the green lady.It’s displayed right in the middle of the header area, and even though this section is a little cluttered with the flowers, their bending in towards the logo actually helps to highlight it.Remember this, there is enough competition on the web already for your customer’s and potential customer’s attention, why would you want to lose your logo on your OWN SITE?
The next way we can improve a website is through the use of color.Color usage should have some goal – are you using it to highlight text, importance of text and so on. It should also match the theme and not distract from site messaging.The site on the left uses a heavy color palette. Which makes it hard to read.These may be the brands colors, but it’s really hard to understand how the use of color emphasizes ideas, concepts or information.The navigation bar, which is what is used to move your visitor through your site, is all but missing because the text is red on a red button.The middle section of this site, below the graphic of the welder, is confusing because the use of color and font sizing makes it look as though it’s the most important part of the site.The site on the right, which we have seen before, uses color to increase readability, and to emphasize importance.The headings are all the same. The calls to action are consistent as is the body text .Using the same color scheme consistently helps to guide your reader and allows you to emphasize what is important.Webs templates are well defined when you start, but you can customize them for color and font usage.One thing we recommend is using your brand colors, and you can by altering the template.If you have brand colors, great just use them, but if you are starting out and trying to determine what color combinations work well togetherAdobe has a great site called Kuler, K – U – L – E – R (http://kuler.adobe.com).Just Google kuler, and you’ll find it, but what it does is help you build a color schemefrom a single color and it will provide you with what’s called the hexidecimal number for that color.This the six digit number that you can put into the color chooser of the Web’s sitebuilder.This number is different from Pantone, RGB or CMYK numbers. If you have those there are lots of sites that will convert those to Hexidecimal for you, just google “hexidecimal converter”. Now we’ll move onto Element 2 – Providing Relevant Content
Your site should provide relevant content for your readers. It should answer the question “what’s in it for me?”Good content is clear and to the point. A reader came to your site for information and if you can't provide it quickly they will move on to the next search result.Remember that a lot of people when they are searching on a desktop actually open up different tabs or different web browser windows,gone are the days of hitting the back button, they only need to close the tab or window to leave your site now.Avoid big blocks of text. The spaces of the “grid” are that size for a reason.Arrange your content based on the size of the block, the bigger and more predominate the bock is on the page, is a good indicator of importance.Make your content “sticky”, meaning that it’s compelling enough to keeps visitors on your site and coming back for more.If you’re exploring the world of SEO and SEM, you’ll also want your content to have your search terms in it.Think about what people are searching for, and use those phrases within your content.If you include videos and images, make sure that they are consistent with your site’s purpose.If you have a site about day-care, like the example, you shouldn’t include videos of kittens playing the doorbell.One other thing to consider on as relevant content is your address – not your url but your address.For example, I find your dog-walking site through a Google search, and I like what I see, but when I contact you, we determine you are seven states away from me.Nothing is more frustrating than that.If you have a business, include the address in your footer or somewhere on your site where you’re located.So lets look at two sites and see how applying this information can make those sites better…
How can you improve your content?So we’ll start with the site on the left.This site is a jumble of graphics and clutter. There is no grid structure for this site. It’s a visual assault.The images are small, the text is small, and a lot of it looks like one big huge run on hyperlink.It’s just really bad.But when you organize your content, like the site on the right, you’ll see that the visual path iseasier – meaning there is a clearly defined hierarchy that you want the reader’s eyes to follow.This site is easy on the eyes, and the content is organized.Even the header image, which uses different sized fonts is easy to read, and understand because this is format that we have all seen on a lot of blogs – it’s a way that blogs arrange their keywords in a block or space format that shows importance, how popular it is, and number of times used based on it’s size and color. The text on your site should be relevant, spaced well and employ the use of white space.This goes a long way to make your site one that people will want to come back to time and time again.The same can be said for how you use images and video .
Imagery can either make or break a site.Just like your text, it should not only connect with the reader but should also connect with the subject and purpose of your site.Also make sure the pictures are current, especially if they are related to your field or business purpose.The example on the left has a background that competes with the text.The text with the yellow shadow against that background is hard to read.And if people can’t read your text, they aren’t going to stick around.The site itself looks blurry. The pictures are first and foremost out dated, yes that computer does have two 5.25 floppy drives.And why is there a flower coming out of the monitor, how does that say “web design”?The example on the right is light years ahead of the “bad example”. It uses imagery that conveys emotion and connects to the reader.They even use imagery that is theme appropriate to the monochromatic color scheme – black, grey and white – of the site.So once again, color isn’t only important in the use of fonts and text, but also to your graphical elements, and as you can see it really pulls the site together.One more word about images, when you design your site, always use the “alt image” tag for images. It is a great way to add SEO information,but also is key to allowing disabled individuals access the information on your site. Think of alt images as a “caption” for your pictures. It provides a description of the image.Lets move on to element three – Navigation.
Navigation is the “GPS” of your website.Navigation or Nav Bars are the buttons that get your visitors where they need to go to get information or do certain things.Usually this bar is along the top, as we in this one, or along the left side of the site.Additionally, a lot of website sites, especially if they are “tall”, meaning that you have to scroll up and down to get all of the content will put anavigation area in the footer of each page, this is usually just text links that mirror the navigation buttons at the top of the page.Some things to keep in mind about your navigation is to make sure that you include a home button, this makes it easy for readers to get back to your main page.It’s also a good idea to include a “contact us” button, this way if a reader can’t readily find the information that they are looking for, they have a way to reach you and “directly” ask a question.And finally keep your navigation consistent. It shouldn’t change from page to page. If the line up on the main page is “home, about us, find a location, blog, and contact us”, that’s the way it should appear on every page.So what can we do to improve navigation?
The example on the left is one that just out of control.It’s an extreme example of how your navigation can get out of hand.This website owner just kept adding additional pages to their site and made each one part of the navigation.It’s very busy and confusing, and for all intents and purposes, there were good intentions, but it just gets out of hand very quickly.As a visitor to the site, you would not know where to go. This user could easily fix this by picking out 5 to 6 main topic areas and then “nest” other pages underneath that main topic area.The example on the right is much better. It uses a clean and neat navigation bar.The person who built this site, clearly understands the importance of “high-level navigation” and uses “standard navigation terms” - Home, About Us, Photo Gallery, Contact Us, Web Store, and Terms of Service. Immediately upon coming to this site, you know where to go to get the information you need.Let’s look at some other navigation tips that will help you.
Navigation BarKeep it simple and consistent. We recommend that it should be 5-7 “topics” at most.Internal LinksInternal links are another way to increase navigation throughout your site. An example of this is if you have a blog and you want to link to another blog entry or even a product you may sell on your site.Site MapsA lot of corporate sites will have this, usually in the footer information of their pages, a link. Basically it’s a table of contents for your site. But using a sitemap can also help with search results, especially when they are well designed and built using those keywords we spoke about.
Here’s an extreme example on the left of navigation gone wild. This website owner just kept adding additional pages to their site and made each one part of the navigation. Look how busy and confusing this looks. As a visitor to the site, you would not know where to go. This user could easily fix this by picking out 5 to 6 main topic areas and then “nest” other pages underneath that main topic area.Let’s contrast that with the page on the right. Look how clean and neat the navigation bar looks. This user clearly knows what topic areas are the most important to highlight for their site visitors – Home, About Us, Photo Gallery, Contact Us, Web Store and their Terms of Service. If I visited this site, I would know where to go to shop or learn more about them. Well done!Let’s look at some other navigation tips that will help you.
You visitors came to your site for a reason, and while they are there you want them to do something.You want your visitor to take some action - it could be as simple as signup for your newsletter, or something like make a purchase.The point is to get the reader to do something other than just visit your home page and leave. The CTA should somehow be linked to your site’s purpose.You can see in the examples, the Webs call to action is “get started”, Photobucket uses “try it now” and Dropbox uses “download dropbox”.The Call to Action is a set of words that urge your reader to take an immediate action. So with that in mind, how can we improve a call to action?
Use the right size for your call to action.It should be big enough to make it clearly visible. I still haven’t found one for the site on the left.Make it obvious – make it look like a button, make the text large enough to register that it’s a button and not just text on the page.Make sure your CTA is recognizable. Make it look like a button, don’t hide it as hyperlink text or something like that.Make sure it’s recognizable – use the arrow icon, use “actionable words” download, start, learn more….
Color, our old friend color.We already know that color plays a huge role in the way you make a person feel about your site and how they connect to it.But for your CTA, you should use colors that stand out from your scheme for CTA.If you have a blue color scheme, use a high contrast color like bright magenta for a button because it stands out.In this example, there are a few buttons, “Get Skype for Windows” “Get Skype for Business” and they are in high contrast areas – blue on white, and then bright blue against a gradient, but the most important one is the one at the top, in the bright magenta color that says “special offers”.Also think about the implied meaning of color – red stop/ green go…If you Google “color theory and calls to action” you’ll find tons of information about which color is best and where to place it, but one of the best things to do is test!Test which colors and phrasing works best with your audience.
Finally, placement. Where should you place the Call to Action on your site?Well one thing to remember is the importance of it and what it does. Secondly, it’s placement should include enough empty or white space around it to “make it pop” and make an impact.Meaning you don’t want it to get lost.And lastly, it shouldn’t be below “the fold”. The fold, is actually an old newspaper term, meaning the information “above the fold” of the paper was the most important.So you don’t want your CTA to be on a portion of the screen that you have to scroll too.How do you know if someone will have to scroll to get to your CTA?Google labs has a great little app called “Browser Size” (http://browsersize.googlelabs.com) you can go to that site and have it overlay the different browser sizes on yoursite and you’ll see what percentage of the web-reading public will see your call to action. And it’s free!
So let’s see… we talked about size, placement and color…But probably the most important part of the your call to action is the text.The biggest piece of advice for this is make it actionable! Use words that dictate an action “click here”, “download now”, “click to call”….Calls to action should be clear and straight to the point – often times you only have a 1 or 2 inch wide button to get your readers to do something – therefore it needs to be clear, concise and straight to the point.You should also be truthful about what your reader is getting into. If the CTA is for sign up for our newsletter, then sign them up for the newsletter, don’t send them to a page to download something.There is no tried or true formula for what makes a CTA work on one site and not another so the best method is to test….Test size, color, placement, text…until you find what works best for your audience.
The 5th Element is Creditability.1. Verified LinksMake it clear you aren't a scamming site.Post verified link if you do credit card processing and don’t alter those images to “fit your brand”. They are trusted markers for a reason, and should stay that way.2. State your Identity3. Clearly displayed contact informationClearly state your address and contact info, best to provide both email AND phone.If you have a brick and mortar store, display your hours. 4. Good Grammar Most of all, pay attention to detail. Most scamming sites are full of errors and misspellings, make sure that your site is very professional and error free. 5. Social Proof:Adding social proof – Twitter, Facebook, Google+ icons, in addition to a twitter feed - can also increase your website credibility –putting these icons on your page also gives the reader another method to contact you in case their email doesn’t work, they can post on your Wall, they can tweet you…and will if they see you are more responsive to social media than email or phone calls.
These are just some examples of social proof.Project Foot includes a facebookplugin for the people who like their facebook page. If you visit a site that has this, and you visit it often, make a mental note to see if changes,it should change and if you’re logged into facebook and have a cookie on your computer, it should show some of your friends at some point.The site on the right also uses a facebookplugin which updates with their facebook status.And finally, we’ll look at Mobility.
More and more people are looking at your site from a mobile phone or web enabled device. It seems like anything with a screen and a microchip in it is capable of getting on the internet these days.So What do you need to do to prepare?Your webs website is automatically converted into a mobile friendly site when you build it.If you’re a Premium user, that site is ad-free – which increases your credibility and makes you look more professional and trustworthy…so if you haven’t already you might want to think about upgrading your current package.Also, since our “smart phones” are becoming more than just phones and ways to communicate, more and more people are carrying them everywhere and using them to “check-in” to locationsusing apps like FourSquare and Facebook, so make sure that your address is easy to find, updated with Google Places for not only search but also for maps.And since mobile browsers are really looking for the “here and now information” make sure that your mobile site isn’t image heavy, because those take time and bandwidth to load.Some one may be a few blocks away from your physical location and because they can’t find your contact information or the site takes too long to load, they’ll leave.
Well that’s it for the 6 key Elements of a Website:1. Good Visual Design – use a theme to keep you on track, use white space and think about color usage and meaning2. Content – make sure the content is what your readers want, provide good relevant content3. Navigation – should be simple to use, and group like pages under the same topic to streamline navigation4. Call to Action – test the placement, size and color of these…make sure you use actionable words5. Credibility – use verified links, state your identity and display contact info, and use good grammar and employ social proof.6. Mobile site – make sure your site is viewable on a mobile internet enabled device.Now we have told you what to do to get the best looking site, here are the 5 mistakes that can spell disaster for your site:
So here is the What you shouldn’t do portion of the presentation…5 rules to live by that we all forget sometimes.1. Stale Content: don’t let your site go dormant. Visitors and potential visitors will skip over your site when content is old and out of date – not to mention the effects this has on your search results.2. Too much content: this is worse than not enough content. The more people have to read through narratives and long drawn out chunks of information,the quicker they are going to leave your site. Leave the long-windedness to your blog entries.3. No Photos: using no imagery makes your site boring and dull. Today’s web readers expect some amount of content mixed with pictures or logos and icons. If they don’t see that they are going to think that the site is broken, that the pictures aren’t loading properly and they’ll bounce even quicker.4. Looking illegitimate – Customers, especially when visiting new sites, will come in with their guard up – especially if they have been the victim of internet fraud before.The lens of the tainted viewer is always going to err on the side of “shady site”, and even more so if the site looks like one.Organizing your content, using consistent colors, employing a theme that stays the same from page to page, along with landing pages that match email campaigns(if you’re doing email marketing) are key to making a site look legit.5. Being Bland - You started your business because of some sort of drive, and a story there. You spent all this time putting together a business plan and starting your company – let your site convey your personality. If you have a business where you great everyone by name, smile and are generally happy, pick a theme and convey that.Avoid color schemes and writing that is “boring”. You have to keep your visitors attention and a bland site will get some one to leave very quickly.
How do I know if I have a good website? One thing you can do is ask someone. Have them quickly look through your website and if they can’t tell you what it’s about or what your product is, it’s probably time to change it.How often should you update your website? Every two week is a good rule of thumb for a site, but you shouldn’t update all of the content because what you are basically doing is resetting the search engine spiders and they have to “learn all of your content all over again”, and this will have an impact on your search results. If you maintain a blog, try to update that more frequently and like we said if you’re experimenting with SEO and SEM, use your search terms in your blog posts too, this will drive traffic and search results.Does design play a roll in search engine results? Yes and no, the over all physical design of your site doesn’t have a say in it, but you need to remember that the content does.