Website Design Tips and Strategies For Local Business Owners

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By Brian B Dawson
Every business today should have a high quality website. Even if someone refers to you from word-of-mouth, people will still go to the Internet and try to find your website. If they find you and you rank highly on the search pages, they will consider you legitimate and a professional business that they would like to do business with. However, if they can’t find you, they will have doubts about you and about the person who referred them to you.

Some of the essential things to have in a webpage or website design is to have a phone number for people to call you when they’re looking for local business.

There’s nothing more frustrating than not being able find a phone number on the website.

If you have a video on your homepage this will help your search engine rankings with Google. Google likes videos because it owns YouTube. YouTube is the number 2 rated search engine that specializes in videos. This video on your homepage should be informative and offer assistance to the viewer to find certain things on your website.

And this video length should be less than 1 minute in duration.

When someone comes to your website, they are most interested in are your homepage, your services, your about us page, and your contact us page.

If you have a unique selling proposition that is specialized to your business, you should promote this more actively as well on your site.

As a local business owner, when someone comes to your website you want to do to one of two things. You want them to call you. Or you want them to give you their name and e-mail address, or even their phone number so that you can communicate with them into the future. They may not be ready to buy your product or service that day, but if you communicate with them on a periodic basis, chances are they will be ready to buy from you at a later date.

So always have an opt in form on your website pages.

In this way people can give you their information so that you can communicate and follow-up with them later. As a fair exchange to them for doing this, you should have an offer that they consider valuable to present to them for giving you their information.

There is more that goes into building a great website; however these are some of the basics that cannot be overlooked for a local business owner.

For more information about websites and their design for local business owners, see the resource box at the bottom of this article.

Wishing you business success!

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