Comments on: What Was The Best Thing You've Ever Done For Your Website? – Entrepreneur Poll

By: Cassidy Turbin

Cassidy Turbin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:46:32 +0000

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.

By: Jared O'Toole

Jared O'Toole — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:35:24 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:17:40 +0000

Stumbled it. It took 8 seconds and got me 40,000 initial hits and started the ball rolling for a ton of press pickup.

By: Karl Foxley

Karl Foxley — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:51:24 +0000

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…

By: George Chernikov

George Chernikov — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:07:10 +0000

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.

By: David Turnbull

David Turnbull — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:29:11 +0000

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.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:46:34 +0000

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.

Follow @JuniorBiz

P.S. I like the new look!

By: Gordon Currie

Gordon Currie — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:33:33 +0000

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.

By: Timothy

Timothy — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:46:06 +0000

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.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:56:37 +0000

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.