1. Have a Website Strategy

What are you trying to achieve?

  • Brochure
  • Sales
  • Build relationship
  • Position expertise
  • Build a list

Constraints

  • Budget
  • Time
  • Expertise

2. Understand Your Market

  • What is their problem?
  • Where do they go online?
  • What language do they use?
  • What style appeals to them?

3. Keyword Research

  • All about understanding your market
  • Analyse what search terms they use – Google keyword tool
  • Be realistic with your choice of keywords
  • Keep it natural and optimise individual pages for keywords

4. Create Valuable Content

  • Answer their questions
  • Use their language
  • Engage them

–      Video
–      Graphics
–      Well written copy
–      Comments

5. Blog, blog, blog

  • Share news, views and expertise on a regular basis
  • Linchpin of your website strategy
  • Enables link building & sharing of articles

6. Build Natural Links

  • Link building – done wrong
  • Sharing
  • Guest blogs
  • Directories
  • Networking

7. Be Sociable

      • Your website should sit at the heart of your social media activity
      • Share and be shared

–      Facebook
–      Twitter
–      LinkedIn
–      Pintrest
–      Google+

          • Treat it like a party

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