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Keeping your company’s website updated is an important factor in driving traffic and revenue. According to Adobe, given 15 minutes to consume content, two-thirds of people would rather read something off a beautifully designed page than plain text. Fifty-one percent of people feel that “thorough contact information” is the most important element missing from many company websites. Thirty-nine percent of people will stop engaging with a website if images won’t load or if they take too long to load.

Your company’s website is an essential tool. Whether it’s an e-commerce site or a brochure site, your website is a representation of who your company is and what it does. It’s a first impression and a resource to help buyers gather information that will ultimately end in a sale. Your website should be constantly evolving. You should update it regularly and ensure that it contains fresh content in order for it to remain relative and perform optimally.

You may have heard of drive-by lawsuits or watched a segment about them on “60 Minutes.” Attorneys and their clients target stores, hotels, restaurants, etc. that are inaccessible, which violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). These people have never been customers of these establishments. They simply drive by or search locations via Google Earth and Google Maps (Google lawsuits), looking for ways to sue due to a building’s inaccessibility or lack of required accessibility equipment, like a pool lift.

5 elements your website needs for the best coverage from media outlets

Whether you're new to public relations or you’ve been sending news releases for years, it's a good idea to make sure your website is press-ready. Essentially, you want to make your company’s website easy for reporters to give you good coverage.

How one of our clients learned the hard way about search engine optimization

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of generating visitors or traffic to a website from free or organic search results on search engines. When someone types a word or a phrase into a search engine, such as Google, that search engine delivers relevant content from its engine, which crawls the web for content that is relative to the keywords you just typed. According to HubSpot, 75 percent of people never scroll past the first page of search engine results, making it imperative for your company’s website to appear high on the first page of a search engine’s page results (SEPR).

How to turn website visitors into customers

Building, developing, designing, or redesigning a website is a large project for anyone to pursue. There’s much to consider when creating your site, aside from color schemes and placement. Content is what brings your website to life, enabling you to create and share your company’s story the way you want to tell it.

If your web design company has never heard of inbound marketing, it might be time to find a new one

Since HubSpot’s creation of inbound marketing in 2005, the approach has grown immensely in popularity as an effective way to increase your customer base. Inbound marketing focuses on attracting customers through relevant and helpful content and adding value at every stage in the buyer’s journey. Although the primary purpose of an inbound marketing website is to nurture leads, it also uses technology to maintain a digital presence on the web and strategies that encourage potential customers by creating content they prefer to use.

If you're facing the difficult burden of website redesign, this new solution in web design can help

Is your company struggling to get its web design just right? Have you recently paid big bucks for a redesign that isn’t delivering the results you expected?