Think of your small business website as a business card, but with greater reach and depth. Like a business card, your website needs to impress anyone who views it. Here are 20 tips to help you create a beautiful and impressive business website.

1. Invest in a website that is modern, looks professional and is secure.

2. Make sure that your website is mobile and tablet friendly.

3. Test your website to avoid having errors on your website that visitors may encounter.

4. Organise your website navigation logically; make it easy for visitors to your site to find what they are looking for.

5. Keep the design of your website simple.

6. Enable and encourage your website visitors to contact you – use one or more well-designed contact forms.

7. Use easy-to-read fonts, for instance, Roboto, Ubuntu or Lora.

8. Each page should contain at least 400 words and 2% of keywords.

9. Publish new relevant content at least once a week to keep your website fresh for Google.

10. Make your content eye-catching by using easy to follow layout.

11. Your brand awareness” could mean your awareness of other brands, whereas “awareness of your brand” is clearer.

12. Pay attention to colours you use, for instance, those colours are hard to read, especially on mobile devices.

13. Include your social media links to enable your visitors to follow you.

14. Add testimonials to your website so your visitors can see your customers past experience and opinions.

15. Remember the power of links. Include links that are useful to your customers, and don’t overload your website with low-quality external links.

16. Avoid repeating the same keywords to many times on a single page.

17. Avoid repeating the same keywords too many times.

18. Use colours on your website that reflects your business.

19. Use an eye-catching header to visually communicate what your company does.

19. Use an eye-catching header to visually communicate what your company does.

20. Avoid DIY everything, leave it to Web Design experts.

You can call our Design and Technology Team or use the form below if you need a new website: 
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