Grow Your Business Online

GROW YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE: GET YOUR WEBSITE SEO READY G etting your business found online, usually means investing your time or money on actions that will improve your ranking on Google and other search engines. This is known as SEO (Search Engine Optimisation.)

Before investing time or money on SEO, you need to ensure that your website is ‘SEO Ready’. A poor website is unlikely to rank well, no matter how much SEO work you do on it.

Here are three things to check, to see if your website is SEO Ready.

Don’t have Christmas opening times on your site in April!

Make sure you are able to update your website yourself, at no additional cost, and keep it up to date.

If you’re not sure if your website is SEO Ready, please get in touch with us and we will carry out a FREE website health check for you. www. it’seeze-horsham.co.uk 01403 610125 john.wright@ it’seeze.com

Your website must be fully responsive (mobile friendly) Fully responsive websites automatically adjust to the size of the screen they are being viewed on, so they look great on any device

Well over 50% of website browsing is now done on a tablet or smartphone. So, a fully responsive website is essential

Your website must be quick to load 40% of website visitors will wait no more than three seconds for a web page to load before abandoning the site.

You should be able to easily edit your website You will quickly lose credibility if your website doesn’t reflect your business as it currently is.

Make sure staff members, your contact details and your products/services are up to date.