Tag Archives: Web Strategy

How long does a website design last?

This is a question we get asked quite often… “After I have a site designed, how long does that design last?”. Unfortunately there is not an exact answer to this question that would apply to every website. The length of time that a design can last before becoming outdated varies slightly between different industries. The [...]

Statistics Tools for Your WordPress Blog

In Part 7 of our blog series “7 Mistakes Website Owners Make and How to Avoid Them”, we discussed the importance of reviewing your website statistics: “It is important that you review these statistics every month, and compare month to month whether or not your site is improving, remaining the same, or falling behind. You [...]

Blogging Basics – Keeping Your Blog Active

One of the biggest challenges your blog faces is staying active. When creating a blog is so easy to do that everyone and their grandma has one, what leaves many blogs abandoned by their owners is the pressure of constant updating. Let’s face it – blogging takes some work. It’s sort of like having a [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 7 of 7)

Mistake 7: Not reviewing your website statistics. The most fatal mistake that a website owner can make is to not review, or even understand the performance of their website. Nearly every hosting company out there provides some sort of web analytics tool. And if they do not, Google Analytics can be added to any website [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 6 of 7)

Mistake 6: Taking too long to respond to inquiries, or not following up at all. It’s happened to all of us. We visit a website, find something interesting, and email the company for some additional information. Then you get the dreaded thank you page, “Thank you for requesting more information from ABC Company. We will [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 5 of 7)

Mistake 5: Too much web copy. We see this mistake being made on huge numbers of websites. People want information now, and they want it fast. They do not want to spend half an hour reading website content. Studies suggest that on average, a visitor spends less than 10 seconds deciding whether or not they [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 4 of 7)

Mistake 4: Letting your website become stagnant or out of date. Your website should never be “finished.” A finished website is an old website. And nobody wants to read an old website. At the very minimum, you should be adding fresh content to your home page at least once every few months. This tells the [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 3 of 7)

Mistake 3: Thinking that your visitor will act (or buy) in their first visit. You’ve probably heard that you have to touch your potential customer/client at least 7 times before they purchase. Unfortunately, many website owners think that their visitor will take action or buy on the very first visit, and ignore the opportunity to [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 2 of 7)

Mistake 2: Not Answering WIIFM? Most visitors come to your website with a problem or a need. They need to buy something, they need to find a solution, and they need help. Isn’t that why you are in business? Your website is an extension of your business and its purpose is to solve a problem. [...]

Blogging Basics – Register Your Blog With Technorati

There are plenty of ways to attract readers to your blog. Let’s talk about one of the more popular ways – Technorati – and how you can use it to make your blog accessible to thousands of people. Technorati is a blog search engine, and one of the biggest ones out there, indexing over 100 [...]