Comments on: Does Your Business Need A Website? http://www.jonbishop.com/2010/02/does-your-business-need-a-website/ Social Media, WordPress and Web Development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jon Bishop http://www.jonbishop.com/2010/02/does-your-business-need-a-website/comment-page-1/#comment-80437 Jon Bishop Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:46:02 +0000 http://www.jonbishop.com/?p=1802#comment-80437 Just thought I would point out you should do some basic SEO on your own site. You mentioned in your comment: "Without the site being properly programmed for the search engines, you’re certainly going to be disappointed in the traffic you get." Some things you might want to try on your site are: - Removing your content from a table - Adding ALT text to your images - Use CSS to style fonts instead of the depreciated FONT tag - Find a host with less downtime. Downtime can affect your search engine rankings. If your site is down for more than 48 hours you can lose rankings and deter spiders from coming back to your site. The last one is important. Much more important than any SEO is making sure your site is up when people try go get to it. It can affect both you real world business and your SEO dramatically. Good luck, hope it all pans out. Just thought I would point out you should do some basic SEO on your own site. You mentioned in your comment: “Without the site being properly programmed for the search engines, you’re certainly going to be disappointed in the traffic you get.”

Some things you might want to try on your site are:
- Removing your content from a table
- Adding ALT text to your images
- Use CSS to style fonts instead of the depreciated FONT tag
- Find a host with less downtime. Downtime can affect your search engine rankings. If your site is down for more than 48 hours you can lose rankings and deter spiders from coming back to your site.

The last one is important. Much more important than any SEO is making sure your site is up when people try go get to it. It can affect both you real world business and your SEO dramatically.

Good luck, hope it all pans out.

]]> By: Jon Bishop http://www.jonbishop.com/2010/02/does-your-business-need-a-website/comment-page-1/#comment-80436 Jon Bishop Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:34:35 +0000 http://www.jonbishop.com/?p=1802#comment-80436 I didn't say not to waste your money on SEO. I specifically said not go overboard with it. A company trying to upsell you their SEO package is usually just trying to make an extra buck. Matt Cutts from Google says using a platform like WordPress will take care of 90% of your SEO needs. The rest is just some good content and positioning. A blog can satisfy both of those needs. I also stand by my statement that Web Developers are a dime a dozen. I hope anyone hiring someone to make their website will look at a developers previous works before hiring them. Don't underestimate a developers knowledge of SEO and marketing just because they aren't an agency. Most agencies end up hiring those same developers to help with marketing and development but it costs more in the end because you are going through the agency. This is by no means my final judgement on the current status of the industry and there are definitely exceptions to the rule. This post was meant to educate businesses without a budget for a website and make them aware of possible alternatives. I didn’t say not to waste your money on SEO. I specifically said not go overboard with it. A company trying to upsell you their SEO package is usually just trying to make an extra buck.

Matt Cutts from Google says using a platform like WordPress will take care of 90% of your SEO needs. The rest is just some good content and positioning. A blog can satisfy both of those needs.

I also stand by my statement that Web Developers are a dime a dozen. I hope anyone hiring someone to make their website will look at a developers previous works before hiring them. Don’t underestimate a developers knowledge of SEO and marketing just because they aren’t an agency. Most agencies end up hiring those same developers to help with marketing and development but it costs more in the end because you are going through the agency.

This is by no means my final judgement on the current status of the industry and there are definitely exceptions to the rule. This post was meant to educate businesses without a budget for a website and make them aware of possible alternatives.

]]> By: Deb Watson http://www.jonbishop.com/2010/02/does-your-business-need-a-website/comment-page-1/#comment-80417 Deb Watson Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:21:13 +0000 http://www.jonbishop.com/?p=1802#comment-80417 Although I agree that you must have a web site, I must disagree with two comments you made. One, that web site developers are a dime a dozen and you can find them anywhere. They are techno-nerds - they do not necessarily have any design training, and they sure as hell don't know marketing. You can have a beautiful looking site, but without the marketing expertise in place, the site won't turn a viewer into a customer. Secondly, you said not to waste money on SEO - excuse me? It doesn't matter how wonderful my site is if people can't find it! Without the site being properly programmed for the search engines, you're certainly going to be disappointed in the traffic you get. Although I agree that you must have a web site, I must disagree with two comments you made. One, that web site developers are a dime a dozen and you can find them anywhere. They are techno-nerds – they do not necessarily have any design training, and they sure as hell don’t know marketing. You can have a beautiful looking site, but without the marketing expertise in place, the site won’t turn a viewer into a customer.

Secondly, you said not to waste money on SEO – excuse me? It doesn’t matter how wonderful my site is if people can’t find it! Without the site being properly programmed for the search engines, you’re certainly going to be disappointed in the traffic you get.

]]> By: Tristan Botly http://www.jonbishop.com/2010/02/does-your-business-need-a-website/comment-page-1/#comment-18049 Tristan Botly Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:31:15 +0000 http://www.jonbishop.com/?p=1802#comment-18049 Google provide a couple of handy tools. Free website: http://pages.google.com/ List your site: http://www.google.com/local/add/ And finally a good little walk through guide I have found: http://blogs.news.com.au/queenbee/index.php/news/comments/tips_to_boost_your_business/47351 Tris Google provide a couple of handy tools.

Free website: http://pages.google.com/
List your site: http://www.google.com/local/add/

And finally a good little walk through guide I have found:
http://blogs.news.com.au/queenbee/index.php/news/comments/tips_to_boost_your_business/47351

Tris

]]> By: Amy Cameron http://www.jonbishop.com/2010/02/does-your-business-need-a-website/comment-page-1/#comment-17350 Amy Cameron Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:26:23 +0000 http://www.jonbishop.com/?p=1802#comment-17350 I agree. In this age and time, It's surprising to find out that there are still businesses out there that do not have online presence. They can even build it themselves if they just invest a little time to taking a short course. There are even those that are offered for free and there are also platforms and tools that are free that would help them achieve that goal. Amy Cameron BuildMySiteforFree.com I agree. In this age and time, It’s surprising to find out that there are still businesses out there that do not have online presence. They can even build it themselves if they just invest a little time to taking a short course. There are even those that are offered for free and there are also platforms and tools that are free that would help them achieve that goal.

Amy Cameron
BuildMySiteforFree.com

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