For years, businesses have been searching for the end all way to boost their way to number one on Google. The short answer is that there isn’t a surefire way to get to number one. If there was, everyone would be doing it. However, there are many things that we have seen to have an effect. If you do some, or preferably all, of the things listed below, you will most definitely notice your website make a steady climb up the pages of Google. But it takes lots of time and dedication to pull it off....

Once a week Business Website Center is a guest speaker on Simple Biz Support weekly webinar. During these live video feeds, we discussed website related news to educate website owners of what they should have on their website to make it successful. Mobile devices have transformed the way websites are designed. A few years ago, a business owner needed two websites: one for phones and one for computer desktops. This was a cumbersome and expensive way. Nowadays all you need is responsive design c...

So you’ve decided you want to sell your products online. That’s about as smart a choice as you can make for your business in this day and age. But how do you go about it? There are so many “solutions” out there, that it is very easy to get lost and confused in it all. First things first, you will want to decide if you can get away with something simple like PayPal, or if you want full on payment integration. PayPal is relatively simple to set up, and you only end up paying money when ...

So you have a great looking website that works well, has large beautiful photos, some decent textual content, and you’ve put some thought into SEO. You’re getting some traffic, but for some reason, it’s not translating into sales. For some reason, the people that go to your site don’t seem to be staying on your site. Don’t panic. This isn’t something that you can’t do anything about. If your design was done well, and you aren’t using a template site like Joomla or Drupal, then y...

Blogging exploded in the early 2000’s. Everyone was doing it. Many companies were doing it and didn’t even understand why they were doing it. Then things died down for a while. A lot of those companies realized that they didn’t know why they were blogging, and couldn’t recognize any measurable benefits, so they stopped. Very recently, with Google’s switch over to the Hummingbird algorithm, blogs have made a huge resurgence. Google’s Hummingbird was designed to go after blocks of use...

Hi, my name is Virginie Dorn from Business Website Center, talking to you from beautiful California. Today, I would like to talk to you about content marketing. That word has been around for quite a few years now, but truly what does it mean for you, your website, and your business? Content marketing is just that. It is the marketing of your services and product by using content. Now it sounds very simple, but it's not easy. Everybody can write. I mean, we're doing essay in hig...

To the average business owner, who is usually busy beyond the levels that a normal human being can handle, the idea of having to plan an entire website seems daunting to say the least. Where do you even start? The best place to start is with an unfocused concept. Think about what the purpose of your website will be. What do you want it to accomplish? Once you know what you want it to do, that’s when you can start thinking about what the best way to do it will be. Once you have a general ide...