Tips for business websites - how to test they work, 12 tips for local marketing actions to improve inbound and outbound marketing.
Presented to Grey Lynn Business Association 10 June 2016
2. What do your want your website to do?
1. Get found in natural search
2. Answer questions
3. Bring in enquiries
4. Get prospects to reveal their identity
5. Showcase expertise
In Summary = Shortcut YOUR time to signing up a new client
3. 3 Tests to do NOW to see how your website is performing
4. 3 ways to test your website
Firstly see how it performs in Hubspot’s Website Grader tool
https://website.grader.com/
5. 3 ways to test your website
WooRank tool (Chrome Extension)
https://www.woorank.com/en/p/developers
6. 3 ways to test your website
Page Analytics (Chrome Extension)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-analytics-by-google/
NOTE you must be signed into your Google Analytics simultaneously.
8. Improve the appearance of your site
Google looks at 4 aspects of your site
• words
• pictures
• video
• maps
9. Here’s a problem in Google Search
I search for “Ray White Parnell” and the Newmarket office shows up top in
search….. all their phone calls are going to the WRONG place.
10. How to edit display listings in Google Search
• Register your site in Google My Business
• https://business.google.com/
• Get verified
• Link Analytics, Maps, YouTube, Reviews, G+
11. Edit and update the information
Tips for editing
• Short description of the firm
• One-line about services
• How to contact you - hyperlink
12. Google Analytics is your friend
Once you have a Google Analytics account for your website
Also get a Search Console account and ‘associate’ them
You will need a sitemap (ebook explains how - link on last slide)
Benefits
1. Display search insights inside Analytics
2. Manage how Google displays your information in ‘sitelinks’
13. Edit your sitelinks
Page Priority Levels
• Sitemap determines hierarchy
• Same level = different priorities
• Switch these around based on your needs
14. 10 Local Marketing tips
1.Set up Google My Business account
2.Key words - ensure city/ town / suburb / state or county are all included in meta
data
3.Directory listings - Get yourself listed on free and paid sites. If you can afford a
small spend www.brightlocal.com is worthwhile
4.Use Facebook local targeting for advertising / brand building
5.Set up Google Alerts for key phrases in the news that could allow you to comment
/ contact / build a mailing list
6.Join the local Business Associations and contact all the relevant local business
members
7.Go to Networking events
8.Get happy customers to write Testimonials on Google My Business, Also
reproduce them on your website
9.Use media relations to get articles in local newspaper, local radio, local
newsletters, (check out Yahoo Groups for local lists)
10.Ask for Referrals - by sending two business cards with your invoice
11.Make specific requests for Social Sharing via your accounts
12.Surprise and delight the customer - e.g. pay it forward
15. Did that work?
How did your business website perform in your tests?
Learn how to do it yourself with our free ebook Get My Website Working For Me
http://creativeagencysecrets.com/get-my-website-working-for-me/
If you need help to change anything for your business - get in touch.
We can do these changes within 3 days for you.
Better fixed than sorry!
Rebecca Caroe rebecca@creativeagencysecrets.com
Notes de l'éditeur
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Hudson Kasper
Slight Lala & Co
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Peter Harris