When you buy a domain name you may think that you have everything you need to start to build your website. You may not have purchased any hosting with your name and until you do this you will not have anyway of adding a website to it. Think of hosting as the space needed to store all the files (or pages)  that will contained in your website. You need to be able to rent space off a server in order to host your files. There are a number of ways in which to obtain hosting; you can buy hosting when you buy your domain name, you can also chose to buy hosting through a third party or you can chose to have your website hosted with your website developer who...
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If you have a business that services multiple locations then you need to think about how you are going to portray this on your website. If your business is online only and you post or travel to many locations then you may just have one site but make pages relevant to each area within your one site. If you have different showrooms or offices all over the country then you may consider creating mini sites for each. It is important to ensure that the content that you put on your website is unique and this can be tricky when it comes to multiple locations. Some people think that they can just copy the content and replace the one location with another but this is simply not unique enough and you...
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If you run a web development company or are a self employed web developer, there may come a time when you have too much work on to manage yourself and need to look for help. You may not want to employ anyone on a permanent basis, but might look in to out sourcing the work to a competent freelance web programmer. Finding a reliable programmer can be tricky and if they have their own projects that they are working on, you will need to ensure that they have the time to work on yours too. When speaking to a freelancer you need to be able to give them clear instructions of what you want and be sure to agree a price with them so you know if it fits within...
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Once you have a website up and running it is essential to analyse its performance on a regular basis and make changes / updates as required. In order to analyse your website you need to know what you are looking out for and how to check your performance. The first thing to check is that you have a good stats package linked up to your site so you can see the number of visitors that are coming to the website. Most stats packages will also be able to give you a lot more vital information such as pages landed on, pages left and time spent on the site. You may even be able to track visitors progress through the site. This can help you find out which pages are not...
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Social media can be a fantastic marketing tool and many businesses are incorporating it in to their marketing strategy. If you do not have the time to manage your social media accounts of feel that you do not know what you are doing then you can chose to outsource it to a company that specialises in social media marketing. Many companies are choosing to do this now as they realise the potential social media marketing has and how it can grow their business with often very little money needed. Knowing what to write on the social media sites and how often to post can be tricky and therefore it is advised to speak to someone in the know. They can tell you what is likely to get you follower’s comments...
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