Online Business Adviser

I wanted to take a rest from talking about social media within your online business, as I seem to have done for the past few posts, and take it back to some basics about setting up an online presence With the proliferation of DIY website tools like Wordpress, anyone can have ... Continue Reading

Getting people to any site is a challenge, even more so to a new one. Until your SEO kicks in (and even when it has) and delivers organic traffic, you need to rely on other methods to get people's attention. There are 3 tips I can recommend for (almost) free to drive traffic to your site and begin to build awareness (and hopefully quality links).

I'm really excited this week to write the first in a series of posts that will see me work with a live site in an effort to drive visitors and ultimately help with sales. The client has given me permission to use their site as an example of how to use different techniques and be completely transparent about what we are doing. Each post I plan to outline what tasks we will undertake during the week ahead. Thoughts, comments, feedback and alternatives are more than welcome. I hope along the way, this becomes very much a crowd sourced overhaul through your feedback.

Social media and Social Networking have become such buzz words in the past few years and many businesses have tried to use it to market products and services, with mixed results.