This tip is one of the most important… 

If you are building a website you should strongly consider using a “contact form.”

For many years I never believed anyone would take the time to fill it out a form online. 

Big mistake.  After adding one to my business web site, to my surprise, a lot of people prefer to fill it out. 

I’m not sure why this is.  Somehow the form breaks the ice and allows the customer to introduce themselves first before I contact them. 

I try to keep my form super simple, asking for name, phone and address, using a drop down box or two to condense the form as much as possible but also provide a commet box so the client can tell me as much as they want to about themselves.

As soon as they fill out the form we try to follow up as soon as possible.

To protect yourself from spammers;  Always use your Web Host provided “Form-mail” system.  Your Web Host usually offers this service for free and provides instructions for how to hook it up.

Happy Web-IT

Tom Jones

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Happy Web-IT

Tom Jones

If you have found it near impossible to get Google to notice your website, you’re not alone. 

These days it takes a lot to impress Google. 

Content is king and you will score high with Google if you frequently add article based content to your site, and especially if you add it to your blog.

So here’s a tip… 

If you have a website with no traffic then you must do this one thing to drasticly increase your SEO.  Attach a blog to your web site URL  (example – http://yoursite.com/blog) and start submitting content to it every three or four days.  Be sure to put a link to your new blog on your web site homepage so that people and Google can easily find it.

You should also submit a site map of your website and blog to Google Webmaster Tools.   Here’s a link to a Free Sitemap Generator that I like to use.

Forget keywords!!!  I know I have taught keyword logic in the past but the game has changed and Google could care less about keywords.  I still use a few tags but for the most part I don’t put much effort into it now days.

If you’re paying attention to your traffic stats these days you will see that Google only goes after random sentence strings.  If your stuffing your site with keywords you will soon find you have no traffic and your site will be banned by the Google search engines completely.

Happy Web-IT

Tom Jones