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Achieving a high Google ranking is crucial for getting customers to your small business website. While Google Ads can place you at the top of the results, SEO offers a much more cost effective alternative. This is especially true over the long term. The good news is that just a small percentage of small business … Read more
A multilingual website is a website that has content in two or more languages. They are a great option if your small business is targetting clients where English is not their first language. We recently completed a project where the content was required to be in both English and Spanish.
To enable us to continue to provide premium service to our clients, Dynamic Websites make it a priority to keep up to date with the latest technologies. That’s why we attended a recent seminar by AWS about Leaning into AI.
Google My Business is one of the best ways to improve the SEO for your small business. Even better, it is free to use! Despite this, it is one of the most underrated and under utilised online platforms when it comes to promoting small businesses.
The new .au domain name registration system started on 24 March 2022. Since then, businesses with a connection to Australia have been able to register a domain name with the ending of .au – ie without the usual .com in front of it
Using Google Ads is a big expense for most small businesses. This is particularly true if you are in a competitive industry. That’s why your Google Ads campaign needs to be run as effectively as possible. By doing this you will get maximum your return on investment.
There is a lot to do when running a small business. That’s why keeping your website updated may be a task that gets put onto the bottom of your to do list. However, if it has been a while since you have made any changes to your website, it is likely to be looking a bit out of date. Even worse, it might be putting off potential customers!
So what can you do to quickly spruce up your small business website? Here are 5 of our top tips
Most small business found 2020 very challenging. As a result, a lot of small businesses are thinking about the best way to reboot their online presence.
This is especially true as some have had to pivot to meet the challenges that the Covid-19 restrictions have brought.
There are a lot of ways to improve your online presence. The following are just a few of them:
Most would agree that 2020 has been a tough year for most small businesses. That’s why it’s time to look forward to 2021. As part of this, you need to make sure you are getting the most out of your website. By doing this, your small business will be off to a flying start in the New Year.
Times are tough for a lot of Australian businesses right now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially true if you are a Melbourne business subject to the current Stage 4 restrictions.
As challenging as these times are, there are ways to use your website to navigate through the crisis and stay in contact with your customers. Outlined below are a few ways your business can use it’s website during this crisis and eventually take advantage of the economic recovery when it comes.
Google My Business is one of the best tools a small business can utilise. It is a particularly effective tool for local businesses looking for more customers. Even better, it is a free tool!
We consider Google My Business so important that we incorporate it into most of the SEO plans for our customers.
To get the most of Google My Business, here are some tips to get you started:
We know the COVID-19 restrictions are affecting many businesses. This includes many Dynamic Websites clients.
We are closely monitoring the restrictions and the impact they are having. Because of this we have suspended in face to face meetings. However, we are still in contact with clients either via telephone or Zoom.
Other than this measure it is business as usual for Dynamic Websites, as all our staff already work remotely. But, as we know it is not business as usual for a lot of our clients, we are doing a few things to make life easier for our many valued clients.
With 97% of people using the internet to find a business, it is very important that your website makes a great first impression.
Unfortunately, a lot of people ‘set and forget’ when it comes to websites. They spent a lot of time and money getting their website online. However, when the website goes online they don’t make any changes for years.
If this is what has happened to your website, then these 5 signs will let you know if it is time for a new website:
Quite often people think they only need to build a website for their business and customers will flock to it. Unfortunately it is not that easy. Take the example of a plumbing business – if you type in ‘plumber melbourne’ you will get 33,400,000 results.
It is unrealistic to expect customers will be able to find your plumbing business website with over 33 million search results. This is especially true if your website is new. So what can be done so that your website can be found easily?
Google My Business is becoming one of the most important ways for a business to improve their online presence. Nearly 95% of people use Google to search the internet.
This means you need to do whatever you can to get an edge on your competition. If you do this, more customers will find you. This means more sales for your business!
It is free to set up your Google My Business account. You first need to verify your address. Once your listing goes live, when people search for a business like yours, the chances of showing up on search results increases.
It takes a lot of time and effort to create a website that gains you new customers, as well as increasing your sales.
Unfortunately, there are lots of common mistakes people make with their website. These mistakes significantly decrease the chances of the website being a successful marketing tool for their business.
Given how important a website can be to the success of a business it is best to get things right from the start.
Here are 5 of the most common mistakes people make with their website:
There has been a buzz for the last couple of years with Afterpay changing the way people purchase products online. After only a few years it now has over one million users. It is particularly popular with millennials who make up 75% of their client base.
Afterpay’s motto is Shop Now. Enjoy Now. Pay Later. It is essentially a modern form of lay-by. However, you don’t have to wait until you pay for the goods to enjoy them.
It is estimated, depending on your business, that conversions rates (ie the percentage of people who come to your website and go on to make a purchase) can increase by 30%. In addition, people are inclined to spend more when they use Afterpay. In fact it is estimated that they spend up to 60% more.
So if Afterpay a good option for your business?
The world of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is ever changing. Google changes it algorithms constantly. This means that your website search engine rank changes too. Sometimes your website drops in ranking and sometimes it increases in ranking.
On 19 August Google announced another change. This change caused many websites to appear to have quite a significant drop in the number of visitors to a website. It is likely your website was affected by this change. So what does it all mean?
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) can be a frustratingly slow process. It can take months (if not longer) to get your website ranking well for highly competitive search terms. However, once SEO starts working for your website it is very cost effective. This is especially true when compared with the costs of using Google AdWords or Bing Ads.
The good news is that there are some simple things you can do that can have a real impact on your website’s SEO position. Listed below are five quick ways to improve your SEO
Getting positive reviews from your customers has always been a great way to create trust and increase the profile of your small business.
However, with the advent the digital age, especially with social media, there are lots of places customers can leave reviews. These places include Google, Facebook, Trip Advisor, True Local and Yelp.
With 90% of people saying they are influenced to buy when they read positive review, it is an important part of your business’ marketing plan to encourage customers to leave reviews.
Bing Ads is a form of pay per click advertising. It is often used as an alternative to Google AdWords. However, some businesses choose to advertise on both Google AdWords and Bing Ads. The main advantage of Bing Ads is that it can often be significantly cheaper than Google AdWords.
In Australia, just over 10% of all internet searches are now being done on Bing. This percentage is even higher if you market overseas. For example, in the US, Bing has around 30% of all internet searches done on desktops.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a form of online marketing that uses various techniques to get a website a high ranking on Google organically. It is usually compared to Google AdWords. The main difference is that if you use Google AdWords you pay every time someone clicks onto your website. Although it can take some time to see SEO results it is very cost effective when it works well, and can completely replace the need for Google AdWords.
Google AdWords, under the right circumstances, is a great way to reach out to new customers. However, it is not for every small business. Google AdWords can be expensive – which is not so bad if you are actually getting new customers. However, if a Google AdWords campaign is not managed correctly it is surprisingly easy to spend a lot with little or no return. So, what are the traps small businesses need to be aware of being deciding to use Google AdWords?
Around 50% of small businesses still do not have a website even though nearly 90% of people now search on the internet to find a business. So what about the other 50% of small businesses who have spent time and money to develop a website? Are their websites bringing in a constant stream of new work? The answer is probably not. Most small business websites do not work effectively to bring in new customers.
More and more Australians are using the internet to shop. In fact, over $30 billion is expected to be spent on online sales during 2017. Every month 40% of shoppers will buy something online. There are various reasons for the large growth in online shopping. Some of them include the high use of the internet by Australians. Over 85% of the population now use the internet so that creates a huge market for online retailers.
In today’s online world, for a lot of companies, a website is the first point of contact a customer will have of your business. First impressions count – especially as people click away from a website within seconds if they don’t like what they see. In fact, it is estimated that over 75% of people judge the credibility of a business based on it’s websites. Here is a list of the main reasons why it may be time for your business to have a new website.
As people are using the more traditional forms of advertising less and less to find a local tradesman (think Leader Newspaper and Yellow Pages) it is becoming increasingly important for every tradie (from one man businesses to larger enterprises) to have a website. However not every website is designed well – which means a lot of money can be spent for very little return.
You know that lots of people are coming to your website but for some reason they are leaving before they make a purchase. This is actually a common problem as most businesses focus on getting people to their website. This is a good start – but unless you get them to buy it has been a wasted effort. Unfortunately, it is not as easy as getting people to your website and the sales will just flood in.
A blog when it is done properly, is a very powerful tool to show off your expertise. It also keeps your website fresh with customers coming back to read your new blogs on a regular basis. A blog is considered one of the most effective tools for search engine optimisation (SEO).
The Square Reader payment system recently launched in Australia and is revolutionising the way to get paid on the go at a low cost. It has been developed by the Founder of Twitter and is directly targeting small businesses including trades, services and retail sector.
