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After your website is finished and live on the internet you should do some final checks to make sure it’s ready for your business and the search engines. It will take some time for a brand new website to rank well on the search engines but by doing these things below will most likely cut down the time.

1. Don’t rush it. Search engines like to see websites to grow naturally so if you buy traffic and go from getting 1 to 100,000 visitors a day they will know something is not right and will more than likely bump your rankings downwards rather upwards. It can take ages to recover from this penalty so it stands to reason that this is best avoided.
2. Start blogging. This approach is best for the short term as well as long term. It is wise to have a blog of some kind that you can regularly add content to. The search engines see this as an active site as long as the content is relevant to the site then you should see improvements in the number of visitors.

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A lead generation website is one that encourages customers to enquire about the product or service that you have to offer. For example, it could be something as simple as “enter your email here for more details”. The customer doesn’t have to enter in pages of personal details and in all likelihood it will take them less than a minute to do so they are likely to fill it in so they can get more details.

Now the email is just an example the same thing could be done via phone calls, SMS text message or filling in a form. Either way you need to make it as simple and hassle free as possible for your customers to ask you for more information.

If you aren’t already doing this on your website you will soon see that it is vital that you implement this to your website.
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One of many challenges following the design of a website is getting it indexed and ranked in the major search engines. There are several different actions that must be taken and an important one is link building. This involves getting links from other web sites and preferably those in the same business as yours. The longer link building efforts continue the quicker your website will start to rank well in the search engines. One process that contributes to link building efforts is web directory submission.

A web directory is the place where you can find all types of business and personal websites. It is much like the telephone directories except with the benefit of searching. Web directories have main categories and sub-categories; you want to make sure the category you submitting to is highly relevant to your website. Always make a directory submission for your website to a directory that you know is read by the search engine crawlers. It helps to improve your site’s rankings because the crawler will be able to read the link’s destination – your website.
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You have just started your business and you are wondering if by putting up a website will benefit your business. Do you really need a website if you have just started your business?

The number of Internet users are growing each year. By having a web presence your business or brand will be reachable by more people. Think of the website like a 24 hours sales person that promotes your business 24/7. It’s true that the cost of getting this “sales person” may seem like a big investment, especially if you are just started up. However, if you break down the cost into 24 months, that’s assuming you will use your website for only 2 years, you will realise the cost of this investment isn’t as big as you thought. And if the work is done properly, it will most likely to pay for itself after 3 to 6 months depending on what business you are in.
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No business would survive without repeat customers, the same applies to websites. Which is why you need to do more than everybody else if you want to attract more repeat visitors. First you need to know that people come to your website either for the information or completing a task like online survey for example. So the key to increase the value of your website. There are many ways to do that and here’s ten to get you started:
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