Website Design Archive
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Small Business Websites: Why you need to be online
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsWord of mouth is just not enough anymore. To ensure consumers knock at your door, and not your competitor’s, they need to be able to find your business easily. Gone are days when you know all of your neighbours, know what industries they work in,... -
Free SEO Resources for Start-ups
Posted on January 15, 2013 | 3 CommentsHaving a well designed website which is easy to find is increasingly important for new businesses. If your business is not easy to find online then it will make the job of attracting paying customers much, much harder. While there are lots of businesses out... -
Intellectual Property: Protecting your Website Content
Posted on December 20, 2012 | No CommentsGoogle regularly update their search algorithms and ranking strategies to try and weed out spam and identify high quality sites. Starting in early 2011 with their Panda update and rolling through 2012 with Penguin one of Google’s big targets has been duplicate content. There has... -
CNAME, URL Forwarding & Frame Forwarding: Which is best?
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsMany of our customers buy multiple domain names for the same website. For instance many businesses like to have the .co.uk, .com and other variations of their domain name. This is useful if customers are manually typing your website address in and get it wrong,... -
Similar Domain Names: How to Avoid Breaking the Rules
Posted on August 10, 2012 | 1 CommentWe frequently hear of cases where a start-up company has bought a domain name only to find that a very similar name is already in use. The start-ups usually want to know if they can get away with using their new domain name. As with... -
Choosing Business Names – Does Length Matter?
Posted on August 6, 2012 | 2 CommentsStandard advice when choosing a domain name for your business is to not go for anything over 15 characters. The reasoning being that the name needs to be catchy and memorable. The standard view in psychology is that the limits of human short term memory... -
How to Register a Domain Name
Posted on August 1, 2012 | No CommentsSecuring your company’s domain name is now nearly as important as securing your company name. Your domain name will be your company’s name online. It will be your website address & form half of your email address. It will feature alongside your company name on... -
What is Branding?
Posted on July 31, 2012 | No CommentsMany new businesses begin with a great idea. Once they have’ the idea’ most start-up founders go through what, these days, count as the basic marketing steps. They get a domain name, buy a website and hire a designer to create a logo. This is... -
UK Ecommerce Exports: How much are they really worth?
Posted on June 21, 2012 | No CommentsI recently came across a report claiming that 30% of all cross border trade in the EU goes through UK ecommerce retailers. Whilst I know that many UK retailers are doing very well with online export sales this figure sounded a bit high. Although there... -
Majority of Customers Shop Online. Majority of Businesses Do Not Sell Online
Posted on June 21, 2012 | No CommentsNot only is the UK population spending more time online they are spending money there as well. According to research from comScore there are 37.6 million internet users in the UK. These users average 35.1 hours per month online. This places the UK third behind...
