These two quick website scans take less than five minutes, yet are vital to your marketing, social media, page speed and how your site is viewed by search engines. The reports will provide you with a grade on where your site stands and give extremely beneficial and detailed suggestions on improving your website.
Type your website address in the boxes at both of these sites:
Marketing.grader.com
I recommend emailing yourself the reports and begin working on this list of suggestions. Use this report as a helpful guide, work on one thing at a time, and gradually complete the list – you can only improve your site from here!
If you have any questions on the process or need help with any of the suggested website changes, feel free to contact me!
This post was originally a four part series, I have reworked the series into one post, and have also updated the content with new and more specific points. “How to Blog Better” is meant for anyone who is just starting a blog or anyone who has a blog that needs a little guidance.
B is for blog
Many forget this basic principle; When you have a blog, you must blog. It is very disappointing when you like a brand, head to their blog and see that it has been months, or even a year since their last blog post. I’ve also seen blogs with the post date removed so they can “get away” with posting less frequently. From my perspective, no date is equivalent to an old post, but the writer is masking their lack of frequent updates. If you have a blog or call yourself a blogger, you should regularly post updates.
Regular blog posts also provide more traffic to your site – from both readers and search engines. Search engines favor websites that are more frequently updated. If you regularly provide new content, search engines will scan your website more often. The more often the bots scan your site, the more content you will have indexed, which can appears in more search results. Also, the more often your site is scanned, the sooner your posts will be indexed and appear in search results earlier. Having more content and content indexed sooner will bring you more traffic from search [read full article…]
2012 is going to be an exciting year! I have several projects on deck, which I will soon announce, that will help my clients with their website, marketing, and overall business needs.
Most of the services I help small businesses with are related to website optimization and social media. Over the past year I have seen many of their businesses grow and succeed as each entrepreneur works harder and becomes more involved in learning how to improve their online presence.
Over the next year I am very pleased grow relationships with my valued clients and anticipate helping many other businesses.
May all of your businesses continue to evolve and flourish. To all of the small business owners and entrepreneurs, remember this:
Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown
