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For more on website resources
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Spring
training. Spring
cleaning... Spring is all about new
starts.
Let's do some website
Spring training and cleaning.
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Website quick tips - Usability
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None of these require a major undertaking to
fix!
"www" - Most people
type in "www"
- lots of people (myself included) don't.
Try your site right now without the www.
Does it load? If not, it's usually a
domain record issue.
PDFs - Do you
have them on your site? Are you linked to
Adobe? You should be so they can download
Acrobat.
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Website quick tips - Content
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Write in the first or second person.
"You have prosthetic/orthotic
needs" "Why I manufacture all my
components in the USA."
Pose, then
answer questions visitors might ask.
"Will I be able to ride a bike?" "Do you
need the fastest turnaround time in the
business?"
Write so readers can
scan. Short paragraphs (30-50 words
each) Edit. Then read it aloud - or
better yet, have someone else read it to you.
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Search engine optimization - Best Practices Checklist
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Ask yourself the following
questions. If don't know the answer, get
your IT person to tell you.
- Do your page titles lead with two and
three-word
targeted keywords?
- Dpes your website have a site map with
text links?
- Do you use text links from your home page
to your most important secondary pages?
- Does your site have a flat directory
structure?
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Search Engine Optimatization - Worst Practices Checklist
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Are you doing any of these? You might want to
rethink.
- Do you dropdown boxes for navigation?
- Does your primary navigation require
Flash, Java or Javascript to function?
- Is your home page a "splash page" or
otherwise content-less?
- Does your site employ frames?
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2007 Calendar of Events
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Will you be there?
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Feedback - Let me have it!
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Marketing Gold Star? Firestarter?
Have a marketing success story? Tell me
about it! 860-967-4184.
Kim Doolan
did.
"Elizabeth,
Your
idea of bringing
a prosthesis with me to the papers worked
wonderfully.
The Odessa American is
doing a feature story about 4 people wearing
prostheses. I'm one and my focus is
stressing the parity bill. So, while I
didn't get a whole story about parity, I AM
EXPECTING A GOOD PUSH IN NEXT SUNDAY'S
PAPER!
THANKS!"
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