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26/03/2018

29 Perfect Business Card Tips That Will Make You Loads of Money

29 Perfect Business Card Tips That Will Make You Loads of Money I love networking and meeting new people. I enjoy the pleasant etiquette of

05/02/2018

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16/01/2018

Websites: Mobile Friendly, Google Friendly, Responsive - What Does It All Mean?
Site Looks Good! We're Done, Right?

Websites: Mobile Friendly, Google Friendly, Responsive - What Does It All Mean?

Site Looks Good! We're Done, Right? Read more www.webwix.co.za

A website can be designed and laid out properly, have a great look and feel, look professional and entirely user-friendly, all while it is a complete and utter mess behind the scenes as Googlebot will see it. Why does Googlebot see it differently? Because Googlebot is always looking for more and better clues as to what keywords are most relevant to your site. Google is all about relevance. Google has a team of quality control people who actually look at the sites to ensure every search conducted in their engine produces relevant results.

Relevance + Speed

Why is relevancy so important to Google? One reason, money. When people get relevant results, they come back. Very simple. When they come back, they see ads. If the content is highly relevant to the search you conducted, and the ads that Google feeds you on their results page are highly relevant to the search, then the ads get more clicks. Clicks are money in the Google world. More clicks are more money. Everybody is a Google customer. People who search in Google might generate a click, which in a secondary way, is them paying Google. They're paying with other people's money, but they're paying. The businesses who buy ads in Google are obviously customers since it is their money you just gave to Google.

Quantity + Quality = SUCCESS!

Google became popular because it produced relevant results FAST! Let me restate this. Relevancy and speed are what made Google one of the most valuable businesses of all time. The way you produce relevant results quickly is entirely due to the fact that Googlebot interpreted the web pages well and stored the content in an efficient fashion on their data warehouse servers. A horrible optimized site looks the same to you, the browser, but looks entirely different to Googlebot. I constructed two web pages for this article. One is poorly optimized, one is highly optimized. They look the same to you, me and the browsers, but they look completely different to Googlebot.

Help the Almighty Googlebot & He Will Reward You Handsomely!

Now imagine this, Googlebot comes to your house and follows the walls and corridors, basically takes its own tour of your house then leaves and goes back to Google headquarters and tells them about your house. That is if he can find a Google employee that isn't busy playing on the indoor slide, getting a massage or eating one of three gourmet meals a day. GB reports that the walls were brown, with white trim. He explains that there were pictures hanging on walls by Picasa and the dimensions of each room, and a slew,let's say hundreds of lines of highly technical descriptive details. Now imagine that you took Googlebot on the tour of your house. You explain to him that the first picture is a picture of your ancestor, Captain John Harkness, who served honorably in the battle of Torchwood and died during the battle and is buried under an apple tree near Cardiff. Oh, here GB, I have a manuscript from a historical archive over here. Did you open this chest and look around. Well, here you go, have at it. GB returns to Google HQ and updates the information with all these historical facts. Later that day your long lost relative calls you from England to explain that you were owed a million dollars from and old estate sale from said ancestor. You ask how he found you and he explains, "Google! I searched Google for Captain John Harkness and you popped up." The moral of that story is that if you help Googlebot he will reward you handsomely.

Google Wants you to succeed!

The best thing about Google is that it desires relevant searches, so it is more than happy to tell you how to do it. The tools provided by Google help you build a Google-friendly website, how to build a proper site map, how to optimize your pages in the meta tags, which is a soft admission admission that meta tags are still relevant and a slew of other things to help you get your site ranked where it is relevant. When you conduct a search in Google, it tells you what else is pertinent, and more pertinent, to the search you conducted. Use this as a way to plan your search engine strategy. Google provides a tool called Google Webmaster, which tells you if your site is optimized, functioning properly, has a valid site map, and so much more. Simply using Google as a tool in the above two ways, you will see a dramatic climbing in the ranks.

Google Has Told Us How to go Mobile

Google has been screaming at web developers explaining how to properly build websites so that they will conform to Googles' rules and rank more highly, or even just to keep existing rankings. Surprisingly, many online marketing professionals ignored Google and proceeded with practices such as redirecting all mobile device queries to their home page. To worsen the situation, there are supposed consultants who have not informed their existing clients that their mobile sites are not acceptable and even stand the risk of their already well-positioned websites being removed from the Google directory.

The most common mistake I witness and the first one mentioned in Google Webmaster, "Your desktop site's server is configured to redirect smartphone users to the smartphone site's homepage, regardless of which URL they originally requested, even if the mobile site has the equivalent page to the redirecting desktop page." This mistake looks to be spam in Google and can you, the reader, tell me why? We covered this earlier. When a web browser searches for a particular product, say a baby crib and they get a particular page in the Google results which is the actual product for which the browser searched, then the site redirects the browser to the mobile sites homepage, what did we lose? One of the two things we said made Google. We lost relevancy! The end page in the redirect makes it appear as though Google didn't return relevant results, doesn't it? The answer, of course, is YES it does.

Google webmaster continues, "We recommend that you configure the redirection correctly if you do have an equivalent smartphone URL so that users end up on the page they were looking for." In other words, "Keep it relevant!" Where have we heard that before? There is only one way to conform to Google's mandate and it is called a responsive website. Why is it called responsive? Because it responds to its "surroundings". Simply go to the website and change the size of your window all the way down to what might look like the size of a typical cell phone. You will notice that the website responded to the size of the window. This means that if you add pages, since the site is also dynamic, or if you have a storefront with thousands of products, the shell of the site ensures that every page in the website is mobile friendly. This required no redirects. Source: More common mistakes.

We're Google & Mobile Friendly - Now What?

Now that we have discussed the basics of Mobile and Google-friendly websites we will dive deeper into dynamic websites that are easy for business owners to manage on their own, email list management, loyalty systems and tying it all into your social marketing campaigns.Good luck

16/01/2018

Websites: Mobile Friendly, Google Friendly, Responsive - What Does It All Mean?

Site Looks Good! We're Done, Right? Read more www.webwix.co.za

A website can be designed and laid out properly, have a great look and feel, look professional and entirely user-friendly, all while it is a complete and utter mess behind the scenes as Googlebot will see it. Why does Googlebot see it differently? Because Googlebot is always looking for more and better clues as to what keywords are most relevant to your site. Google is all about relevance. Google has a team of quality control people who actually look at the sites to ensure every search conducted in their engine produces relevant results.

Relevance + Speed

Why is relevancy so important to Google? One reason, money. When people get relevant results, they come back. Very simple. When they come back, they see ads. If the content is highly relevant to the search you conducted, and the ads that Google feeds you on their results page are highly relevant to the search, then the ads get more clicks. Clicks are money in the Google world. More clicks are more money. Everybody is a Google customer. People who search in Google might generate a click, which in a secondary way, is them paying Google. They're paying with other people's money, but they're paying. The businesses who buy ads in Google are obviously customers since it is their money you just gave to Google.

Quantity + Quality = SUCCESS!

Google became popular because it produced relevant results FAST! Let me restate this. Relevancy and speed are what made Google one of the most valuable businesses of all time. The way you produce relevant results quickly is entirely due to the fact that Googlebot interpreted the web pages well and stored the content in an efficient fashion on their data warehouse servers. A horrible optimized site looks the same to you, the browser, but looks entirely different to Googlebot. I constructed two web pages for this article. One is poorly optimized, one is highly optimized. They look the same to you, me and the browsers, but they look completely different to Googlebot.

Help the Almighty Googlebot & He Will Reward You Handsomely!

Now imagine this, Googlebot comes to your house and follows the walls and corridors, basically takes its own tour of your house then leaves and goes back to Google headquarters and tells them about your house. That is if he can find a Google employee that isn't busy playing on the indoor slide, getting a massage or eating one of three gourmet meals a day. GB reports that the walls were brown, with white trim. He explains that there were pictures hanging on walls by Picasa and the dimensions of each room, and a slew,let's say hundreds of lines of highly technical descriptive details. Now imagine that you took Googlebot on the tour of your house. You explain to him that the first picture is a picture of your ancestor, Captain John Harkness, who served honorably in the battle of Torchwood and died during the battle and is buried under an apple tree near Cardiff. Oh, here GB, I have a manuscript from a historical archive over here. Did you open this chest and look around. Well, here you go, have at it. GB returns to Google HQ and updates the information with all these historical facts. Later that day your long lost relative calls you from England to explain that you were owed a million dollars from and old estate sale from said ancestor. You ask how he found you and he explains, "Google! I searched Google for Captain John Harkness and you popped up." The moral of that story is that if you help Googlebot he will reward you handsomely.

Google Wants you to succeed!

The best thing about Google is that it desires relevant searches, so it is more than happy to tell you how to do it. The tools provided by Google help you build a Google-friendly website, how to build a proper site map, how to optimize your pages in the meta tags, which is a soft admission admission that meta tags are still relevant and a slew of other things to help you get your site ranked where it is relevant. When you conduct a search in Google, it tells you what else is pertinent, and more pertinent, to the search you conducted. Use this as a way to plan your search engine strategy. Google provides a tool called Google Webmaster, which tells you if your site is optimized, functioning properly, has a valid site map, and so much more. Simply using Google as a tool in the above two ways, you will see a dramatic climbing in the ranks.

Google Has Told Us How to go Mobile

Google has been screaming at web developers explaining how to properly build websites so that they will conform to Googles' rules and rank more highly, or even just to keep existing rankings. Surprisingly, many online marketing professionals ignored Google and proceeded with practices such as redirecting all mobile device queries to their home page. To worsen the situation, there are supposed consultants who have not informed their existing clients that their mobile sites are not acceptable and even stand the risk of their already well-positioned websites being removed from the Google directory.

The most common mistake I witness and the first one mentioned in Google Webmaster, "Your desktop site's server is configured to redirect smartphone users to the smartphone site's homepage, regardless of which URL they originally requested, even if the mobile site has the equivalent page to the redirecting desktop page." This mistake looks to be spam in Google and can you, the reader, tell me why? We covered this earlier. When a web browser searches for a particular product, say a baby crib and they get a particular page in the Google results which is the actual product for which the browser searched, then the site redirects the browser to the mobile sites homepage, what did we lose? One of the two things we said made Google. We lost relevancy! The end page in the redirect makes it appear as though Google didn't return relevant results, doesn't it? The answer, of course, is YES it does.

Google webmaster continues, "We recommend that you configure the redirection correctly if you do have an equivalent smartphone URL so that users end up on the page they were looking for." In other words, "Keep it relevant!" Where have we heard that before? There is only one way to conform to Google's mandate and it is called a responsive website. Why is it called responsive? Because it responds to its "surroundings". Simply go to the website and change the size of your window all the way down to what might look like the size of a typical cell phone. You will notice that the website responded to the size of the window. This means that if you add pages, since the site is also dynamic, or if you have a storefront with thousands of products, the shell of the site ensures that every page in the website is mobile friendly. This required no redirects. Source: More common mistakes.

We're Google & Mobile Friendly - Now What?

Now that we have discussed the basics of Mobile and Google-friendly websites we will dive deeper into dynamic websites that are easy for business owners to manage on their own, email list management, loyalty systems and tying it all into your social marketing campaigns.Good luck

30/12/2017

BOOK YOUR 2018 WEDDING BEFORE 31.12.2017 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE

Choosing which wedding video and photographer package suits you best can be tricky, especially when looking so at many different wedding videographers and photographers. so we’ve given you 3 basic choices to try and simplify things. All of wedding film packages include both a short highlights trai...

22/12/2017

5 Reasons Why Wedding Videography is a Necessity on Your Wedding Day

It's pretty much a given today that you've decided to hire a professional wedding photographer to capture your beautiful wedding moments onto photos. But that leaves the next question - Should you hire a professional wedding videography team to produce a wedding video? Hiring a team whose expertise�...

21/12/2017

How to Plan Your Wedding Day to Ensure You Have Lots of Time

I am very privileged to be privy to all the key elements of a wedding day. From getting ready in the morning through to the evenings entertainment. As an observer and recorder of the day, I get to see what works for the couple and their guests on the day.

21/09/2017

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17/09/2017

Website Builder Vs Website Designer - Hire Or Do It Yourself

A well-designed website that is built using the best practices will work for you 24/7 to attract visitors and turn those visitors into customers. The good news is that you have a few choices when it comes to having a website designed for your local business:

1. You can do it yourself (DIY) by learning to code or use a Website Builder

2. You can hire a professional web designer

Learning how to build a website from scratch will be time consuming and hiring a web designer can require a larger budget than planned, which is why the free and low cost website builder services like Weebly, Wix, and Squarespace have become all the rage these days. You can't visit a website, listen to a podcast, or watch a video online without seeing or hearing ads talking about how you can create a beautiful, fully functional website in as little as a few hours. With no coding or design experience.

Wow. That sounds amazing, but is it really what you're looking for?

For local businesses, a web builder can seem like the best option. However, it's important to understand the pros and cons of using one of these tools and whether it will really serve your business goals in the long run.

Website Builder vs Website Designer
If you don't plan to teach yourself how to build a website from scratch then you are left with: website builder vs. website designer. As convenient as web builders may claim to be, below are a few reasons why, at the end of the day, we recommend you at least consider investing in professional web design services rather than just settling for a DIY website builder. After all, you are running a business so you are going to need a website that sells customers.

The Pros & Cons of a Website Builder
DIY website builders have become so popular recently.

The main attraction to them is that users can quickly choose a template, upload their content, and have a website online in a matter of hours, at little to no cost.

These website builders use "drag and drop" and "WYSIWYG" (stands for "What You See Is What You Get") tools to make it easy for anyone to format and edit webpages. If you can use Microsoft Word then you can use these services, which is much better than having to learn HTML and CSS to build a website yourself.

With web builders, their paint-by-number templates make it very simple for you to upload content, like text and images, and place where you want it on the page. As long as you stay within the lines of the template and properly size your images to fit the space, then you should be in good shape.

Speed Does NOT Equal Results
While getting a website online as fast as possible might be convenient in the short term, it does not mean you're going to see results quickly. As you can imagine, there is more to web design than just uploading a few pictures and pasting some text into a template.

Many business owners enjoy the DIY website builder process but are disappointed when they don't see new customers coming into their office saying they found you online. After many hours or weeks of website editing, many business owners find out the hard way that not all websites are created equal.

The most beautiful website in the world can't generate new customers if it can't be found by the people looking for it or if it doesn't provide a great user experience. Here are just a few of the very important web design and search engine optimization (SEO) elements that website builders can't do for you:

A great website designer will take the time to understand your business, not just the niche you are in but also what is unique about YOUR business, and then design and build a website that's customized to you. This is very different than having to stuff your business into a predesigned and predetermined box. Also, if you've ever tried to use Photoshop or design any type of images for a website, you know how hard and time consuming it can be. Great images and designs will take your business to the next level and immediately create a higher level of trust with your potential customers.

Professional web design will make your business look unique and professional, helping it stand out from the crowd while still being functional and user friendly.

Local SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Free web builders may offer speed and convenience, but they can't offer unique design to specifically fit and market your business. They also can't work with you one-on-one to create lead generation opportunities and other digital strategies, like SEO, to drive more traffic to your website.

Let's assume for a minute that you built a nice looking website using a web builder service. That's great news, but it doesn't mean anything if Google doesn't know your website exists or doesn't have enough faith in it to show your business off to its users. For example, let's say you run a small business called "Dave's Martial Arts" in Johannesburg. Your self-built website will likely come up in search results for "Dave's Martial Arts," but how likely is it that someone would search for that exact term? They are more likely to search "martial arts Johannesburg" or something similar if they're not quite sure what they're looking for. The people that you want to find your website probably won't be able to unless they already know who you are.

That is not a great way to generate new business online.

When building your website you're going to need to account for people who find products and services based on location. As more and more searches go mobile, search engines are using your location to deliver geo targeted results. "Dave's Martial Arts" could be a few blocks from where a potential customer is searching, but if the SEO is not set up correctly on the website, and information like name, address, and phone number (NAP) are not easily found, the potential customer may never find you through an online search.

One of the many benefits of hiring a professional web designer is that they should understand how to maximize local SEO so your business comes up in a variety of Google searches. You will still need to work on your local listings and citations but having great on-site SEO is a huge head start.

Tips for Hiring a Web Designer
If you'd like your business to look professional, get found online easily, and start generating business for you from day one, then we recommend talking with some professional web designers. Start by doing a Google search for "Web Design in [your city, state]" (replace [your city, state] with the city and state you live in).

Most web designers will charge a one-time cost to custom design and build your website. You can expect the cost to be a minimum of R4,000.00 and can go up to R100,000.00 or more, depending on your specific business needs and they type of web designer you contacted. Keep in mind that large advertising agencies will always cost more than local boutique agencies. These prices will not include any ongoing SEO or the domain name (youbusiness.com) and web hosting (where your website will be stored), which you'll most likely be responsible for supplying (don't worry if you don't know how to get those, the web designer should be able to help you through the process).

That is the traditional option but if that doesn't sound right for you then search around for other solutions. There are other web design service options and models available.

Regardless of which path you choose, remember that it is 2017 and your customers are looking online for the solutions to the problems that your business can fix. If they can't find you online then you are missing out on real customers and real opportunities. You need to start investing in your business's online presence.

Good luck!