Web design blog

Total UK online sales will have reached £69bn by the end of 2011 (Source: Marketingmagazine.co.uk), and online sales are growing at 6 times the rate of high street sales! These figures demonstrate that this is still an area of massive growth in the UK, so if your business does not already have a revenue stream from online sales, it is time to sell your products and services online with an ecommerce website. It’s not just business to consumer sellers who are seeing an increase in sales, ecommerce is as well suited to business to business sales.

Facebook marketing provides you with a means to engage with your target market, drive traffic to your website and increase your visibility in the search engines.

82% of the UK Population now use the internet (Source Internetworldstats.com) so it stands to reason that each and every business should have an online presence, so that they can be found, as the first thing most people do now when looking for something is “Google it”.

Getting found in search engines (Search engine optimisation or SEO) is one of the best ways to attract traffic to your website, but do you know what words your site is currently being found for, and are those words/phrases creating leads for you?

The latest statistics available prove that website design should be optimised for mobile browsing. If you are not sure how your website performs on a smart phone or mobile device, it really is worth testing it as soon as possible as the statistics below reflect:

From 1st March 2011, the UK code of Non-broadcasting advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing has applied to marketing messages on the internet.

Each day 30 million adults in the UK use the internet; that 65% represents a huge populace that you could be reaching online.  We can help you target the right potential customers, with the right messages, to grow your business. Sound advice from Covenant Solutions means getting your first website built (or an existing website redesigned) is easier than you think.

One of the questions we're most often asked is "What can I do to get my website onto page one of the search engines?". There are several things that you can do yourself which will help your search engine ranking and we thought we'd share 10 of them with you. These are all on our checklist when we evaluate a website and it's search engine performance before we start promoting, building links and increasing traffic. They're also the most common items that we correct in our client's websites.