Grow :  Improving Your Web Site

Over 20% of businesses don’t track how their web sites are used – don’t be one of them! Does your web site generate the number of visitors or sales you expected? Do you know how many visitors are landing on your web site? Do you know where visitors come from when they arrive at your website? Or where they go when they leave? Do you...

Setting up a website is the very first step of an Internet marketing campaign, and the success or failure of your site depends greatly on how specifically you have defined your website goals. If you don't know what you want your site to accomplish, it will most likely fail to accomplish anything. Without goals to guide you in developing and monitoring...

Congratulations on owning your own retail business!You've been up and running for some time now, and while you are making sales, your conversion rate is lower than it should be. You know that customers are getting to your site. Does it makes you wonder what you might be doing (or not doing) that is causing potential customers to leave without purchasing...

People who shop online generally do so because the virtual storefront is a low-pressure, convenient environment in which to shop. However, in the absence of physical human interaction, the operator of a virtual store may have to work harder to make the commitment to customer service obvious to online shoppers. (Remember, it's far easier for an online...

With very few exceptions, a business puts a site on the Web in order to be found. This means that having a site that can easily be indexed by search engines is essential. In the early days of the Internet, the traditional way of thinking was that “if you build it, they (the visitors/customers/potential clients) will come.” This is no longer...

This subject was recently raised by a member of the Network Solutions community. To begin with, what exactly is a blog? A blog is a special type of Web page made up of multiple journal entries listed in reverse chronological order that include a title, a date, and time stamp. Each blog entry also will have its own unique Web page address (known as a...

The word "blog" is simply a contraction of Web and log. In basic terms, a Web log is a type of Web site that has software running in the background which makes it easy to add content to a Web site. Blogging started out as a very personal way for a small number of Internet trendsetters to communicate via an online diary or journal. Then, as...

At its most basic, Web hosting is a service where a Web hosting company provides space on its equipment (known as servers) so that companies and individuals can make their Web sites available on the Internet. Web hosting is a necessity for any Web site . It is the physical location of your Web site on the Internet – an online storage center that...

A domain name is a crucial piece of your online business. It is the first thing customers think of when trying to find you online. People will search for your business using the most logical name so it's important that the name you choose ties back to your business and brand. The problem is you cannot always get the one perfect domain name that...

All of the billions of pages and millions of sites on the Web have to be stored somewhere, which is where web hosting services comes in. Web hosting consists of computers called servers connected to the Internet, and managed by teams of technical experts who insure that all pages and sites are available at all times - 24/7/365 reliability guaranteed...