Why Speed is a Major Issue for Your Site

23 November, 2010 5:14 pm | Posted by Ben Norman

If your pages aren’t loading quick enough, people will get bored and leave. It doesn’t matter how exciting your content is, how great your products are, if they can’t see them, they won’t know – or care.

Therefore your site has to be functional as well as optimised. The fact that Google and most other search engines have integrated site speed into their ranking factors is something of a blessing. Now sites that aren’t serving their visitors’ needs aren’t seeing any benefit.

This has put the focus on the usability and functionality of a site and brought it into the context of SEO.
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Do You Backup Your Website?

23 September, 2008 4:33 pm | Posted by Ben Norman

Are you like the many businesses that don’t backup their websites? what would you do if your web host had a critical server outage and lost your files?

This is a rare occurrence but a very possible one especially with the cheaper hosts. It is a very wise move to ensure that you are taking regular snap shots of your web files and backing them up to a safe location.

Just think of the problems and cost to your business if your website suddenly vanished!

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