You know it's time for a new website when...
24 Feb 11
1) You are sick of receiving an invoice every time you want to make a little change on your website
Whether it be adding an image, or amending text, if you are being charged by a web company, it might be time to look for an alternative.
2) You spend hours trying to work out how to add a new deal to your home page and STILL can't work it out!
Do you ever ask yourself how much easier it would be if the
content management system (CMS) you are using to enter data was
'user-friendly' and didn't require the skills of a web developer
to do the simple stuff?
3) You wish you could monitor how well your website is performing
If you could only see the statistics, you would know how many
visitors are looking at your website, which pages are performing
better than others, where these visitors come from and so on.
4) Your website is taking an age to download
If your website hosting is on a shared server in
Delhi, it may only cost you $100 a year, but does it download
quickly enough to satisfy the visitors to your site?
5) You are being charged when adding another couple of pages to your website
Naturally, you want to tell people about the great new product
you're offering, and the flexibility to add new pages. But
when you are charged to add a new page here and there, it starts
to add up.
6) Your website is not SEO-friendly
Some websites are designed and built to work with the search
engines. This means the google crawlers can easily find
their way around these sites so they are easier to optimise.
As a result, these websites will rank higher in the search
engines. Others are simply not built to be Search
Engine Optimisation (SEO) -friendly. Is yours?
7) You want to easily send out newsletters and target specific groups of customers
You can use email marketing managers like mail chimp to run your
email campaigns, but how great would it be to have your
newsletters, database and website all in once place, so you can
target and send information to customers quickly and easily?
8) Your website is hacked
The data for a number of websites - sometimes a few, sometimes
thousands - is often stored in a partitioned, shared server
making it one of the most common and affordable forms of hosting.
Unfortunately, whilst more affordable, it presents risks.
Security can be compromised in shared hosting, as it doesn’t
support secure sites.
9) You wish your blog was on your own website
Rather than having your blog and website in separate places, do
you ever wonder how much easier it would be if all your content
were in one place, on your website, helping optimise it at the
same time?
10) You have a problem with your website and noone to turn to
Often, low cost fees for hosting a website can mean you have
noongoing IT support, and this spell trouble if your
website suddenly crashes.
