In today’s online world, everyday more than 100 million web pages are emerged, it sounds really cool for readers, but scary for the site owners. Today, obtaining consistent traffic and optimum sales figure is an imperative task. That’s why, SEO (search engine optimization) to target niche audience and increasing page-views are essential to stay ahead over the web. There are basically two ways to earn revenues on the Internet: “Advertisement” and “Selling” something.

One of the biggest challenges that website owners face these days, is to stay updated in the ocean of relevant consistent as well as latest information related to your business. Always focus on making an irresistible site, so that the reader feels guilty for “why not he bookmarks your page”. Let’s take a look at what you have missed on your website that can bespoke your site and your business as a brand name and what you need to do to improve your visibility over web.

Unique & Quality Content

Quality content is the most critical benchmark for a good website. We can say that content is a “King” of the website and it must be informative & educational to provide all the relevant information, which reader is looking for.

Let’s suppose, I am looking for information about drawing tutorials, then I want something eye-catching and interesting information. If I stumble upon “How to draw web theme” tutorial page, then I will expect that website is filled with more useful techniques and tutorials, which I want. If not, then I’ll simply leave that page without having a second thought.

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In content management, prefer the shotgun approach rather than a sniper approach. Losing readers directly impacts on the optimum outcome of business as well as reputation. Unless having a huge team of writer, more useful is to have an expert, who offers quality content with originality.

Thanks to Google and its algorithms, readers always have choices to seek a lot of informative content. Thus, it is your duty to write proper content and provide all the essential information to your readers.

Search Engine Optimization

If your website comes at the 10th page of Google’s search results, then who will find your site, no one.

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“Search Engine Optimization” is very demanding technology that can break the path of your website’s last page and help in making visibility high. It is the proven technology that interlinked with content and increase the number of audience through various links. SEO also helps in promoting products and services. Through social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ & more, millions of people are connected these days and SEO targets prospective audience through the keywords. You need to just ensure that your site has links with other sites, which is called “deep-links” or “backlinks”.      

Try to make friendship with blogging sites and post your guest blogs to enhance the online presence. Some other techniques like pay per click and paid advertisement can also help your organization to improve your website’s search ranking or traffic. And, Google picks up these things very fast, so implement them in your business to draw maximum ROI.

Speed

I have visited many sites and observe that few sites take more than 30 seconds to load. Unless waiting for some time, I leave right away such types of sites. That sounds harsh, but it is the fact.

Now, developers has been trained to have web pages, which load instantly. Check Google.com and see how pretty fast it loads, Google takes hardly 1.8 seconds. However, Google is the most visited website in the entire world, yet it’s speed is really fast than other sites. Therefore, focus on making your own website as much fast as possible.

speed It is an easy process, you need to just “compress” and “cache” your web content, which enables page to load quickly.

Navigations and Visual Appearance

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Having ugly website is no excuse. There is no need to pay thousands of dollars, if you have technical skills. Download various easy to use free or premium templates and make your website’s look decent and professional. Keep in mind that the aim must be simple and straight to the point.

I hope, these tips will help you in building irresistible website design.

Author Bio:

Garry Smith is a professional website designer & blogger and associated with CSSChopper. He spent his most of the time in designing creative and innovative sites, additionally writing blogs related to web designing to provide easy and interactive tips.

As a small business owner you may well be under the impression that owning your own website is simply not worth the cost and effort in terms of maintenance and running. However if you speak to a Miami web design company for instance, they’ll suggest that because you’re a small business, this is exactly why you should have a website. Here’s why?

Convenience:

Regardless of how local you may think your business is, there’s a pretty good chance that someone somewhere in the world wants exactly what you have to offer. These being the case then why not give it to them? By having a company website they can access your products or services from the comfort of their own home and what’s more important, they can access it 24/7. In addition to this, it allows your existing customers to access your business out of working hours offering a more convenient service. 

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Your customers expect!

In the 21st century customers are far more shopper savvy. Here’s a case in point! In a recent survey carried out by Google in conjunction with research group Shopper Sciences, it was found that as many as 88% of consumers carried out some form of online research before they bought a product. Not only this, it was found that each consumer consulted an average of 10.4 sources in order to compare prices and find the best deal, before even contemplating parting with their cash. In essence, customers expect a business, no matter how small, to have a virtual presence. Any that don’t are really missing out big time.

Puts you on the map:

The great thing about the internet revolution is that it allows small businesses to compete directly with large organizations on a level playing field. This is something they never could have done before. By employing cost effective strategies in conjunction with practices such as social networking or search engine optimization Miami, New Jersey, and Chicago based companies for example, can help to get your business noticed and effectively put you on the map.

Some small businesses are clearly happy just ticking along and aren’t necessarily looking to expand and for those people then it’s fair to say that a website probably isn’t going to help. However for those who are really looking to grow their business, build a solid customer-focused relationship and grow sales, then it really should be a priority.

Finally here’s another statistic to finish – in 2012 according to a survey carried out by Ado-logy 46% of small businesses who say they want to be more successful don’t have a website! Do you want to be part of this statistic?

Author Bio:

John Mathew manages content for Miami Web Design, a website designing and development company. He loves to share ideas for building a more profitable website by writing on e-commerce and web designing. He also writes on the latest needs for designing a website.

Migrating a WordPress site to new url or domain, live or to a production/development server, new URL strings in the mySql database need to be changed and updated in various database tables.

This method is work when you like to move whole mysql database via phpmyadmin instead export/import all within wordpress admin. So you would copy/move all wordpress files/folder to new destination, set the correct ownership to those files and than start work on database.

Old url to New url change within phpmyadmin

  1. Export database from old server.
  2. Create a new blank database on New Server
  3. Import old database via phpmyadmin import wizard
  4. Use the code as below in sql query and change in your old and new URLs, no trailing slashes.

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://www.old.url', 'http://www.new.url') WHERE option_name = 'home' OR option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.old.url','http://www.new.url');
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.old.url', 'http://www.new.url');
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,'http://www.old.url','http://www.new.url');

replace old url to new url

Finally update wordpress config file to reflect the new database, “wp-config.php” should be in your web document root – change, database name, ursername, password and host values:

define('DB_NAME', ‘dbname');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username');
/** MySQL database password */ d
efine('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

Now everything should be fine.