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Tips for a Successful Christmas Social Media Campaign

Christmas is a stressful yet rewarding time of year for any business. Companies need to alter their brand to suit the holiday season, including changes to the design of their website and the creation of a Christmas social media campaign. A Christmas social media campaign has 3 overall goals: To spread some festive cheer Increase engagement with your content Create a spike in sales So how can a business achieve these lofty goals using the power of social media alone? At Sites For Business, [...]

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Social Media Management Can Help Your Business To Grow

It’s vital that, when running a business, you’re actively using social media. Additionally, it’s even more important that you’re using social media properly. Did you know that 71% of people who have a good social media experience with a brand are likely to recommend the brand to others? Hiring a social media manager allows you to create a social media presence that actually builds your business and brings in new customers. Let’s take a look at some of the [...]

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Build Your Brand: Social Media and Business

In 2017, social media isn’t something you can ignore or simply go without. As a business, social media can be used to allow you to engage with customers, respond to feedback, and advertise your products and/or services. In fact, 71% of brands intend to invest more money into their social media presence. However, using social media to your benefit isn’t as simple as signing up to a platform and posting. Potential customers need to know who you are and [...]

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Web Design Trends: What’s Fashionable in 2017?

As a team of committed web designers, it’s important that we stay on top of the current trends in web design. As such, we have compiled a definitive list of the top web design trends for 2017, so you can see whether your site is staying current. Learn more about designing WordPress websites in Southampton Asymmetry For a long time, it was a commonly held belief that websites should follow a symmetrical format. This means that the layout should look the same [...]

Facebook Business Account: How To Make One & How To Use It.

In 2017, it’s impossible to exaggerate the importance that social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have for any business. One of the best things about Facebook is the reach it can give your business if you use it right. Setting up a Facebook business account is a valuable way to reach more customers and keep in touch with your client base. So, how do you set up your own Facebook business page? Choose your Facebook business account classification. First you will [...]

HTTPS: Why you urgently need to switch to secure browsing.

As of 2015, Google has adjusted their crawlers to start prioritising HTTPS pages by default. This means that pages with HTTPS are given higher priority than those with HTTP. In January 2017, a Chrome update meant that input fields that are not using HTTPS were flagged to let users know that they were transmitting data insecurely. But what are HTTP and HTTPS? Why do you need to make the switch? What is HTTP? Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is most commonly used to [...]

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Site Structure and SEO: How to Build an Optimised Website

Search engines favour websites with great site structure. If you’re looking to get your website to the top of Google’s results, you will need to tune and organise your site’s structure. This post will discuss the benefits of organised site structure and how it enhances your site’s SEO. But first, how do we improve a site’s structure? Website hierarchy One of the most important things to consider is website hierarchy. You need to plan your hierarchy before beginning anything else. This [...]

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Southampton Web Design Specialists Spill All On Improving Business Emails

Every email that your company sends out should be engaging, interesting and relevant to every person receiving the email. Here at Sites For Business, your web design Southampton specialists, we have narrowed down our most effective ways of creating better emails. Include ONE call to action Every email MUST have a call to action. The content within your message must be engaging and should always steer them nicely to your call to action, without being overly persuasive. A call to [...]

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Web design Southampton experts reveal how social media improves SEO

Your web design Southampton specialists are working hard to circulate important information that will help your companies website and credibility. Did you know that the SEO of your website can be improved through a good social media strategy? If you’re looking at the screen blankly, we suggest you read on. Social media and SEO are two tightly interwoven strategies that will improve your ranking and credibility of your business website. These strategies present an organic improvement to creating an appealing [...]

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Web Design secrets revealed; free images for your website

  For many writing the content for a website can become the hardest task, however, if you’re having a crack at web designing then you know there’s something that trumps the endless words…  Pictures. Pictures can put a Web Designer or business website owner into a head spin, as they search for the right image to fit the right space and match the right colours. You see web designers, have an eye for perfection, which is always a good thing. But when [...]