Been to our website recently?
The aMarketForce website has got a fresh new look, and it is much more focused on addressing problems that businesses face today.
Since it is our new-website-month it is seems apt that we blog this month on ‘Why a website needs a regular update’. Let us take a look at a few key areas that you need to consider before doing a website makeover.
Why makeover your website? Here are some benefits
- Tighter focus on current markets
- Focus on customers current issues
- Make it easier to navigate
- Make it easier to reach us
- Better SEO – its time to do wholesale fixes
- Fix the coding issues
- Remove those extra tables
- Make it Social – Add your Twitter, FB page links
- Redo the meta tags
- Add fresh content – Relevant SEO friendly content
- Add new pages
- Rewrite to add new target keywords
- Increase Traffic – New traffic and new business
- Promote the new website through PR, marketing campaigns
- Tighter focus on current markets
And some downsides:
- Cost – Do you have a budget yet?
- You need to hire a programmer or website development company
- You need a resource to manage the project – else it will flounder
- Additional work – Means extra hours
- Rewriting the pages – Now you need a writer too
- Redo SEO – Nightmare if Search engines no longer credits you for your years of SEO work
- Redo the link building if links changes
- Bottom line
- Is it worth it? Yes, for the new business and better focus on your current key markets.
- Is it easy? No.
- Would we do it again? Definitely, as the markets shift and we need to change our focus.
Additional information about aMarketForce marketing services can be found on www.amarketforce.com.
