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Avoid making web design and promotion mistakes and you'll get far more visitors to your website, and they'll keep coming back for more. Here are 10 website marketing mistakes you need to avoid making! 1. Spam Spamming is the sure-fire way of getting your website blacklisted from the major search engines. Many people see creating thousands of cloaked or doorway pages with hidden text as the quick route to ranking success. It isn't. 2. Un-targeted traffic It's one thing to generate lots of new… Continue

It used to be vital to get business cards when you first started. But now it’s more important that people can learn about you & your business online. A web-site is the most essential marketing device for every new business in 2008. It takes time or money to get your web-site perfect ,and having invested that time, you’re sure to require a lovely flow of traffic as quickly as you can. Traffic means interested people which should mean sales leads. Here are three proven online ways to public… Continue

The Internet has evolved into a into a social environment in addition to an information clearinghouse. Harness the power of the Internet with Social Networking and make it work for you. Utilise social networking: * As an online marketer. * To meet other like-minded people sharing the same interests. * To find special friendships and perhaps something more. Do you have a web-site that you would like to promote? Consider social networking as a platform to announce yourself and your web business… Continue

This SEO Glossary could in theory contain 1,000 terms. We've started with the most important from a search engine optimisation viewpoint and will add more on a regular basis. AdWords - Google's advertising system which serves text ads related to search terms. (Free £30 for new advertisers) Backlinks - Simply links pointing to any website. Backlinks to a given website can be measured using the Google T… Continue

All businesses engaging in e-commerce need to comply with the law governing traditional physical world transactions such as the Sale of Goods Act 1979, Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977, The Unfair Terms and Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, The Consumer Protection Act 1987 and so on. In addition, they must ensure that they comply with an array of regulations governing the actual on-line trading process. These are mainly as follows: * The Consumer Prot… Continue

Is your web site working hard enough for you? Run it through the following 20 point fitness assessment to find out: * Is your site fully search engine compatible? Are all your pages being indexed by the major search engines? * Do you track your visitor statistics on a regular basis? Do you use the information provided by your visitor statistics to improve your site? * Is your web site accessible to visually-impaired visitors? Does it meet the international standards set down by the… Continue

There are many different types of blogs, differing not only in the type of content, but also in the way that content is delivered or written. Personal blogs The personal blog, an on-going diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. Bloggin… Continue