Your cookbook for your website will cover the following topics. Each section is unique and customised for your website and your business.
Website ObjectivesYou’ve got a website – what do you want it to do?It may sound like a silly question but you’d be surprised at exactly how many website owners there are who haven’t clearly defined what their reasons and objectives are for having a website.
Yours could include;
- Telling potential customers about your products and services.
- Getting potential customers to get in touch with you to buy your products and services.
- Capturing your visitors contact details so you can begin an ongoing dialogue with them.
- Creating more awareness about your company and brand.
- Allowing your potential customers to explore, experience and engage with your brand.
Target Audience AnalysisDefine your audience and learn to speak their language.
- Focus in on exactly who it is you want to talk to and then work out;
- How you’re going to find them and bring them to your website.
- How you’re going to talk to them.
Website Content PlanThe Nuts & BoltsThe content plan of your website will give you a clear overview of;
- How your content will be structured.
- What it will contain.
- How the pages will be laid out.
- How the objectives you’ve set for it will be achieved.
Marketing StrategySpreading the WordThere’s little point in having the best website in the world if no one gets to see it. You need to know exactly how you’re going to get traffic to your website.
This could include strategies such as;
- Search engine optimisation (included as part of all our packages) – Increase your traffic by getting further up the ranking ladder.
- Social networking sites, eg. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube etc – Grow your traffic virally and organically, and increase your brand’s web presence.
- Blogging and article syndication – You’re the expert, share your thoughts and knowledge with the world wide web.
- Website updates – Keeping your website up-to-date is one the easiest and best ways to ensure that search engines (eg. Google) regularly pays your site a visit, helping to boost you up their rankings.