It’s time for another poll here at Young Entrepreneur!
This month our question is: What Was The Best Thing You’ve Ever Done For Your Website?
If you’re a regular reader you would have noticed that the blog has been given a significant facelift today and it’s already made a big difference on how I write and manage the posts.
What is the best thing that you’ve ever done? Was it a design face lift? Hiring a SEO company? Starting a social media campaign?
I would love to hear your thoughts so we can put together a comprehensive list of ideas and suggestions for those entrepreneurs who are starting up!
You can cast your vote by commenting below!
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I haven’t done it yet but about to do is find my website a co-founder.
Spending a couple grand on an SEO-friendly blogging platform that allowed us to get on the first page of Google on keywords our regular website was not getting. This has the side benefit of allowing me to spread our blog posts on our social networks, thereby increasingly our recency, relevancy and reach.
So maybe this doesn’t qualify because it didn’t directly involve our website. However, our main site does serve as a content source for the blog.
The best thing I have done was a total re-design of my blog. My old design worked well in the past, but over time (after learning many trends and web design techniques) I became aware of better ways of doing things. The new design allows for much better SEO, better community interaction and a flexible, robust back-end.
For my website I rewrote the code in compliant XHTML. My search engine listing took off on Google and I get alot of business that way now. I also added way more pictures of work I had completed (for my web portfolio). Lastly, what helped was uploading free articles.
Twitter (and networking in general…)! I just started my site a couple months ago and have found a lot of great people to give me feedback on it through Twitter. It’s amazing how many people out there genuinely want to help.
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P.S. I like the new look!
Hmmm, well the best thing I’ve ever done related to websites is outsource the creation of a network of websites. I got a 6x return after outsourcing and spending a total of less than 3 hours on the network as a whole. I won’t share figures, but for my first outsourcing experience is was quite encouraging.
I’ll have to go with others who said that overhauling the design of their site was the best thing they did. I recently gave up and purchased a Premium WP theme.
It cost $70, but it really helps me differentiate my site – and, more importantly, it shows my visitors that I am serious enough about it to invest into a Premium theme.
The best thing I ever did was move my blog from a free template to a paid template. The template needed a lot more customization than the free template to get the look and features working properly but it was totally worth it! You get what you pay for I suppose…
Stumbled it. It took 8 seconds and got me 40,000 initial hits and started the ball rolling for a ton of press pickup.
Social media campaign. It doesn’t matter how great your content is or how great looking your site is. If nobody knows about it, it all means nothing.
I’m a whole lot newer than most to the SEO aspect of things but just by putting up a blog on twitter I’ve now networked more in a few weeks than I did all last year. I’ve had more hits on all of my pages as a result.