Hi. This blog is devoted to helping you to make the most of your website - particularly in helping you to get more visitors to your site.
I am a website designer, specializing in websites for driving schools through my site Wanasite and websites for local businesses in Cumbria
1. Prices The standard annual renewal price has stayed the same at £49.50 for several years, and it will stay the same for another year. Some of our older one page sites were cheaper but will now be charged at the standard rate. From now on the annual renewal includes 6 text only changes...
Many websites benefit from the purchase of links. This is a grey area to say the least. Matt Cutts at Google has come out unequivocally to say that sites that buy and sell links will be penalised. However it’s a fact that many household name websites purchase links. In addition, paid for directories that...
Anchor Text is the actual text that is hyperlinked to your site. In other words the bit of text that people will click on. Using good anchor text is important. Google uses it to assess what your site is about. It’s good to use your most important keywords in your anchor text. So if...
Generally speaking links are good! On the whole there are three types: One Way links – where the other site links to you Reciprocal or Two Way links – where the other site links top you and you link back to them Paid links 1. One Way links. These are good. Most people won’t...
You can often leave a comment on someone else’s blog with a link back to your site. eg this screenshot at http://defdriving.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/defensive-driving-means-insurance-reduction-in-the-state-of-texas/ Navigate to “comments” or “post a comment” Fill in some info like this and click “Post Comment” Note – you must use a real email address (your own!) Put something like “Your...
One way of getting more visitors to your site is by starting a blog. If you’re a driving instructor you could blog about latest test successes, traffic problems in your town, changes to test fees, current test waiting times etc. The benefits of having your own blog are that you can generate visitors to...
It’s often instructive to check how many people are linking to your site. You can do this in several ways. Two tools that I have found helpful are the Yahoo Site Explorer at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ and Domain Pop Another alternative is BackLinkWatch. This site not only tells you which site...
Generally speaking links to your site are good. Getting links however is not easy. One way of getting more links to your site is to submit it to some of the many web directories that are around. Now some professionals feel that links from directories are of little value. However, my own experiences are...
If you have a business with a genuine business address then you should definitely get listed at Google Local, also known as Goggle Places. Here’s an example of the listing of one of our customers (Infrontdriving) showing their Google local Entry. The top line is a Google Adwords paid for advert. Next comes the...