Websites.ca Podcast Websitesca Inc

Ryan and Sean discuss how you can tap your web team to aid seasonal changes in your industry.

They also start the conversation off with a support issue over Google's Page Speed ranking and why you should worry about basic user experience instead. Here is the article mentioned in that convo: https://business.websites.ca/page-speed-impact-is-load-time-really-that-important/

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Go behind the scenes with our copywriter and marketing consultant Sean, to see if online content creation will actually help your business. 

Many hosting or website service packages come with an add-on option for "content creation". This usually means writing articles for your website. All too often, small businesses don't see any results from this add-on, and in the podcast Sean will tell you why.

He'll also go into some of the ways you can properly approach content creation, and what kind of expectations you should have.

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Ryan and Sean discuss managing your images, to get the best website results (across all browsers and devices), with the least back and forth.
With modern mobile phones we are all equipped to take high-quality photos. But there are a few steps you need to take after that, to ensure they work properly online.
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Ryan and Sean discuss ways to streamline your site. Starting from a strategic perspective, and then getting down into the details of some dead-weight modules/features that can be safely deleted from 99% of business websites. And finally, why it’s okay that pages require scrolling.
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Ryan and Sean talk about the pros and cons of contact forms on your website. The main complaint people have is spam, but there are some important things to know about how to handle that. They also discuss alternatives like Chat Boxes, including a free one you can use from Facebook Messenger.
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Music from https://filmmusic.io "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Ryan and Sean discuss domain names and what they affect in terms of SEO, how many you need, how hard they are to transfer, and more.If you have a small business in Canada, get listed for free in the fastest growing website directory of the country: https://websites.ca/
Music from https://filmmusic.io "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)