Having a website is one thing but if it’s not working for you in the search engines it’s pretty pointless. It’s like having a van and not painting your logo on the side, or a mobile and not having it switched on. Every piece of equipment you have need to pay for itself and generate income or interest.

This is why your website has to give you a return on your investment. It has to be search engine friendly and it has to rank well for your keywords. Just looking pretty isn’t going to cut it, the fact is if no one can find it, no one will use it and you will have wasted your money.

Website MOT

Just like a car your site can have its online health checked and a report generated telling you where it’s failing and what to do about it. For as little as £25 we can help you start to turn your website around and begin to get a return on your investment. We might suggest that only a few adjustments are needed or we might suggest that a new site written with the latest web standards is what’s required, but either way you have a starting point that you can work from at your own pace and at your own budget. We realise that money is tight at the moment and a website overhaul might not be the first thing you want to spend your money on, this is why we are offering the MOT as a base point, a cost effective report that shows you how to improve and turn the corner on all the doom and gloom.

For further information contact Ian Blackford direct on 0845 370 3459 for a no obligation chat.

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Design Conscious .com eMarketing Newsletter

Issue: 5.2 – January 2009

8 WAYS TO DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE – PART 2

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This weeks newsletter is in two parts, and it covers ways to drive
traffic to your site. The first part gave you tips 1-4 now it’s time
for tips 5-8.

Part one is available here:

I hope you find the tips useful, please contact me on 0845 370 3459
should you need any further help or advice, and don’t forget the
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8 WAYS TO DRIVE TRAFFIC TO YOUR SITE – PART 2 (tips 5-8)

(continued fram part 1)

5. Build a sitemap

How?
Google has a facility for you to add your websites sitemap to a
Google account. There are scripts you can install on your site to
automatically create a Google valid sitemap – so it’s easy to tell
Google and the other search engine spiders exactly where your pages are.

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6. Make words in your links meaningful

How?
If you make ‘Blue Widgets’ and the link to the widgets page says
‘Click here for our products’ then the search engine has no keywords in
the link to match up with the product page. Change the words in your
links to something like ‘The Blue Widget range’ – then the link and the
product page have keywords in common (Blue and Widget) thus increasing
your keyword relevancy.

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7. Look at your webstats and track your links

How?
Ask your web developer to show you the stats for your site and see where
your traffic is coming from. If your traffic is mainly referals from other
sites think about increasing your visability on those pages. Look at the
top 10 keywords that are being used to find your site and improve their
denisty and relevancy in your website (Don’t over do it – Google will
delist you for keyword stuffing if you repeat your words unnecessarily).
If you advertise in a newspaper or magazine add a tracking code to the
URL in the advert and then see how much traffic is generated. Doing this
will help you identify which advertising is really working for you -
allowing you to drop any area of advertising that isnt performing and to
increase the advertising that is.

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8. Google Adwords

How?
Google adwords is a briliant way of driving highly targeted traffic
to your site. It’s targeted because you bid on a keyword relating to
your business – say ‘Blue Widgets’ and your link is only shown when
someone searches and matches your keyword. When they click you get
charged and they are sent to your site. It’s a good way of getting
traffic but it can be a costly excercise if you don’t manage your
account, before you do this make sure your site is good enough to
convert any possible new leads to sales.

You now have eight of the best tips around for improving your online
presence. If you wish to implement any of these cost effective tips
call me for a quick quote or health check report on 0845 370 3459.

Make 2009 eventful not regretful!

Looking forward to speaking to you soon.

Ian Blackford
Owner / Manager
Design Conscious .com
Tel: 0845 370 3459

Saturday, January 31, 2009

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