New Website is now live!

It is important for a business to constantly evolve to keep up with an ever changing world, especially in a fast paced industry such as internet marketing. This is one of the reasons that here at Net66 we have now released our brand new website.

When we design websites for our clients, we design one that will last the test of time. However, as one of the leaders in website design Manchester wide, we want to showcase our design skills. We know that sites need to be easier to read and navigate to be effective, but we also believe that the way a website looks is just as important. It is essentially your shop window, and can draw people in or push them away.

We are also one of the most established companies for SEO in Manchester. Our website has gone to the top of Google in record time. SEO is a competitive market in Manchester, and if we can get ourselves to the first page of Google within a matter of days, we are more then confident we can do the same for our customers.

We know that our new website projects how we see ourselves. Modern, forward thinking and state of the art. We are linked to all of the social networks in the way we would for our customers, using the skills of our sister company The Social Media People. Our website will continue to develop, as will we, to keep up with the exciting, fast paced world of online marketing.

Website Design Experts

Throughout the recession most businesses have struggled and even the most successful blue chip companies have had to tighten their belt to weather the storm. A few of the fripperies should have to be cut out, but your online presence should 100% not be one of them.

As you’re trying to save money, so are your customers. Instead of wandering the shops they will be shrewdly calculating how they can afford the products and services they want and/or need, and looking online is one way they will do this. If you think you cannot afford a website at this time, I’m telling you you can’t afford not to have a website.

Web design companies are offering more and more competitive packages. Net66 provides some of the leading services for website design Manchester wide, and have seen the benefit of companies using the internet for advertising. For example, if you have a company that sells bespoke kitchens in Manchester, you need to be the most prominent, most professional kitchen supplying company on the web Manchester wide. You can only do this with a well designed website, show casing your work and inspiring people to buy from you instead of the guy down the road.

These days, a website is more likely to be what introduces a potential customer to your business then either your shop front of your staff. First impressions are everything, and you need to stand out. Your website should be professional, work well with search engines, project your brand image and reflect your business. You only get this from a professional website design company, and a professional designed website is not a luxury, it’s a necessity.

SEO in Manchester

There are many companies claiming to offer the best services for SEO in Manchester, but few follow up by providing the results to back up this claim. The aim of Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is to achieve as high a ranking on the major search engines as possible. Here at Net66 we are number one if you search ‘SEO Manchester‘. If we can do that for a competitive industry such as ours in an area where this service is widely provided, think what we can do for you.

Over 97% of people with access to the Internet use it to find products and services they need, instead of using methods such as telephone directories, local papers or notice boards. The majority of people would look at the top three first, and would very rarely go past the first page if they found what they needed. Getting yourself in the position where you are at the top of these search engines is in no way simple or easy. Search engines such as Google or Bing are always changing how they chose to rank you on their listings, and using a company that keeps it’s finger on the pulse of search engine’s criteria for indexing websites, such as ourselves, is invaluable.

A visible online presence is not just an asset these days, it’s practically a necessity. Creating a website and promoting it to the extent that you are the first people potential customers see is an investment well worth making. Redirecting your funds from antiquated forms of advertising such as direct mail, radio, newspapers and even television, is a sensible step for any business wanting to flourish in this new digital age.

What to do when you have a fantastic business website

You think you have the best designed website in your industry; it’s visually pleasing, easy to navigate, holds all the information you need, there’s pictures and impressive graphics and you love it. Now what? You could sit and admire it, working on the theory that if you build it they will come, or you can use your website to do what it was intended to do, generate some business. To do that, you need to think about getting traffic to your website.

The majority of your traffic will come from search engines such as Google or Bing from people searching for your products or services. You need to be as prominent as possible on those search engines. The best way to do that is by Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO. SEO is the process of getting your website to rank highly on search engines by using keywords, links and regularly updating your website. It can be a complicated process and many companies choose to use a specialist SEO company.

Using the right SEO company is important, but how do you chose? Net66 is one of the leading companies for SEO in Manchester wide, and believe that the proof is in the pudding. You know they do a good job because when you search ‘SEO Manchester‘, they are right at the top. If an SEO company can do that for themselves, they can do that for you. Whether you are looking to be at the top for something as competitive as ‘hair dresser London’, or a niche market such as ‘tropical fish Skegness,’ it is important that if someone searches for a product or service that you supply in their area, they find you first.

The Social Media People Complaints

Social media networks are a huge part of people’s everyday lives these days. 85% are on Facebook and nearly 50% are on Twitter. There are now two relatively new networks called Linked In and Google+ as well. Internet advertising companies such as The Social Media People have been quick to spot the marketing potential. The main advantage of advertising on social media networks is that you are able to target specific demographics including age, gender, location, occupations and hobbies. With Facebook, we can also target potential customers based on what they include in their status updates. An excellent example is for a crèche, who might want to look for ‘good baby sitter’ or ‘ find child care’ as key phrases. If an individual is struggling to find quality and affordable child care and has complained about it in their status, chances are an advert for a local child minder or playgroup will appear on their page shortly. Anyone that has seen the adverts on their Facebook page and thought how spooky it is that it relates to something happening in their lives, it’s all by design.

The Social Media People is a company that specialises in internet advertising, specifically social media advertising. We worked with Facebook and Twitter initially, these being the most established. Wh then moved on to Linked In and Google+. Linked In is a social network based around people’s work that they use to meet people in their industry and approach potential employers. Google+ has been dubbed the ‘new Facebook.’ It has a lot of the same features as Facebook and Twitter but a few new features that the more technically minded might enjoy such as web chats with groups of people. The Social Media People are experts in all of these networks and believes that they all have their place within a marketing campaign.

We work with a wide variety of customers within a range of industries. We work hard to keep up with an industry that moves fast enough to change from week to week. With packages starting from on £99 a month, we believe we give good value for money as well as excellent service. It genuinely matters to us what our customers think about us. Let’s just say you won’t see many The Social Media People complaints. We hope to continue to develop within social media advertising and look forward to the advances that come with working in such a fast moving field. If you have any online advertising needs, consider The Social Media People as your first port of call.

5 SEO Tips for your blog

1) Don’t use overly cleaver, or deliberately confusing headlines. They rarely work and can irritate people. Remember, this will be the first thing that people see when they click on to the post, and may even deter people from opening the post at all. Keep it simple yet informative.

2) Remember to share your blog posts on your social media profiles. Our partners over at The Social Media People recommend sharing your post 2-3 times. Remember, you don’t want to appear to be spamming the site, but you want to get people to click the post.

3) Once you have a reader on your site, you want to keep them there! A great way to do this is to link to older posts on related topics. Make sure that you make the anchor text click worthy!

4) Remember to add a page title and meta description. If you are operating in WordPress you can simply download a plugin like ‘All in One SEO’ which will add a little box at the bottom of the page to add these details in. Remember to use your keywords in both of these!

5) Speaking of keywords, if you are looking to target a specific term for each blog post then remember to use that term in the blog post itself. You don’t want to add it too many times, about 4 or 5 usages of the exact terms should suffice on an article of 300 – 500 words.
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Importance of Mobile Websites | Net66

The growth of mobile browsing has been phenomenal. An astounding 77% of the world’s population now own a mobile phone, and over half a billion of these users regularly access the web via their hand-held device. Thus, ignoring this market is a huge error and can severely limit both your traffic and business success.

Unfortunately, mobile browsing can be somewhat difficult for both web developers and designers to accommodate. While some mobile devices can handle websites designed for laptop or desktop users, many cannot. One of the primary reasons for this is that many websites are designed in a way that ignores the emerging platform. The use of table and copy rich websites often result in tightly crammed webpages that simply cannot adapt to the smaller, touch screens.

Generally, there are two options; firstly, you could design a dedicated mobile site for handheld devices. Secondly, and more practically, you could design your initial site with multiple browsing platforms in mind. Nevertheless, here at Net66, we believe that a combination of both methods presents the best return. Therefore, your website ought to be designed in the knowledge that your website will be accessed across multiple platforms and you could provide an alternative site should your initial site fail on the platform. For instance, a click-able redirect to the mobile site at the top of the page would allow users that cannot fully explore your website to go to a compatible site with minimal fuss.

Some important considerations:

Websites that over-use tables for the main layout will often not look right on mobile phones
Your website must use CSS to ensure maximum cross-platform browsing
It is preferable to code your website in HTML
Design your website with users in mind. For instance, put the most important information at the top of the page.
It can often be more difficult to enter text on a mobile website. Keep this in mind a fully utilise other methods.
If your website has images, it is preferable to use JPEG or GIF files.
Be aware that the maximum page size for many mobile devices is 20 kb.

What is SEO | Net66

Quite simply, Search Engine Optimisation or SEO is the process of making your website more search engine friendly, and thus appear on the search engines. This drastically increases the visibility of your website and rapidly increases traffic.

Firstly, it is important to note that if you want your website rank well, in a consistent manner, then one must follow the guidelines laid out by Google. Failure to do so is often met with severe ‘punishments’. For instance, the search engine giant may choose not to index your website if it finds you in breach of its regulations. Therefore, it is advised that you either engage in an extensive period of research, whereby you fully understand the rules and methods to optimise your website, or you hire a professional SEO agency.

The ultimate goal search engine optimisation is to create a website that has a real purpose, providing relevant content, information or service, and is able to be read by Google. Generally speaking, there are two factors which impact this: on-page and off-page optimisation.

On-Page Optimisation

It is commonly acknowledged that ‘content is king’. In essence, this means that without high quality, relevant content your website is doomed to fail. This is for two fundamental reasons; firstly, it is very unlikely that a potential customer will buy from or use a website with poorly written content. Secondly, if your content is not wrote with search engines in mind, it may be decided that it is not relevant to the term that you want to target.

Additionally, if you want to have your website noticed, it is important that your copy is unique. In other words, if your website is entirely composed of duplicate content, search engines will often fail to display your website as they prefer diversity in its SERP’s.
Finally, if you have quality content on your site, you will find it a lot easier to do the second aspect of SEO. For instance, if you have a quality article talking about solar panels, other companies, bloggers and pages will want to link to it.

Off-Page Optimisation

In addition to the On-Page optimisation, it is also important that you generate inbound links from other websites. However, this is not an easy process. It has now been widely accepted that link-directories and link-farms are largely useless.

Nevertheless, there is hope. Search engines now a place great emphasis on social media networks, bookmarking services and blogs. Thus, here at Net66, we think that one of the best ways to generate interest in your website (and the resulting links) is to write a high quality blog that people want to talk about and share. This can be utilised for any field and can truly grow your business.

While this post is far from exhaustive, it does offer a quick insight to the complex and ever-changing world of search engine optimisation.

New businesses need SEO

All new businesses need SEO in order to increase their potential new client base and increase their marketing, especially if they are starting small. Small businesses can find it difficult to attract people to their site to view their products and services. This is why it is important to get SEO traffic from search engines including Google, Yahoo and Bing. SEO helps a site bring in traffic from specific keyword terms and phrases that are related to their products. This also means a business has a greater chance of converting this traffic into sales. In order to do this, website design is equally important. Once SEO takes the potential customer to the site, the site then has to speak for itself.

Companies that do website design and SEO together are often a good idea for a new business. Net66, based in Manchester, provides both website design and SEO services, and advise adding content, building links and then start incorporating social media. For social media advertising it is also good to use experts such as The Social Media People.

High rankings on search engines do not happen overnight. They take time and work so if anyone ever calls you up guaranteeing they can do it within the week, hang up! It is worth the effort though because getting to the first page of a search engine gives a new business the exposure it needs and craves. SEO is an absolute necessity in order for any new business, because there’s no point in having a web presence if no one is going to get to see it.

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SEO Trends 2012

2011 was a busy year for changes in SEO and from what we have seen, 2012 promises to be just as interesting. Here at Net66, as one of the leading companies for SEO in Manchester, we like to predict what might lie ahead, especially with regards to SEO trends 2012.

There are signs of much more variety in search engines, with Yahoo losing momentum and Google already losing approximately 5% of it’s market share to the new look search engine by MSN; Bing. Bing provides many of the same functions as Google but with some new features. One of the major draws is Bing’s cashback program. In this economy, any opportunity to save money is bound to be a winner and Bing have recognised that and made it work for them. If you search for a product, it gives you a list of the usual results, but also shows which shops they have cashback deals with. With some going up to 35% with major retailers, this could be a huge attraction for bargain savvy web users. Some of their features are more whimsical to appeal to a fickle population. They have new visual searches where you can simply click on a photo to search it as well as a brand new map format. The Bing maps service used to be much the same as Google’s, but they have now introduced maps with photos, not just with street view, but collections of photos stitched together to make an impressive panoramic.

Google are striking back though, by developing their mobile applications for smart phones. 85% of people own a mobile phone and Google are taking into account the rising number of Androids being purchased. They are also straying into Social SEO with their new project, Google+.

Google+, having established itself within months of its introduction, will continue to play an increasing part in Social SEO. Having combined some of Facebook’s and Twitter’s best features, and incorporating some new ones of its own, the more technologically minded are veering towards Google+ and away from the others. With its newly introduced ‘brand’ pages, many Manchester SEO professionals, ourselves included, believe it will continue to grow as long as users can justify the effort in order to gain traffic value from their pages.

Each search engine is different, even if only slightly, making SEO unique to each one. With each search engine striving to do better than the others, they will change and develop in order to compete. With the veering away from keywords and towards traffic and conversation becoming apparent, new Search Engine formats will shape the future of SEO in 2012. SEO will have to adapt in order to achieve the same results and optimise the amount of traffic ‘passing through’ sites. Here at Net66, we are looking forward to new developments and the challenge of keeping up.

Does your Website Design Reflect Your Business?

Business websites have nearly completely taken over from newspapers and telephone directories for providing information about products and services in the last decade. A lot of companies are moving their advertising budget away from printed adverts and directories, and into improving their online presence, mainly their websites. A business’s website is now often peoples first point of contact with them, and it needs give them a good impression.

It’s good to have a look at your website on a regular basis, to check you feel it reflects your business. You need to project that you take your company seriously, and that means a good quality website. A specialist website design company is often the solution to making a website as professional and relevant as possible. Net66 aren’t just one of the best companies for website design Manchester wide, they are also the most established company for SEO in Manchester. SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is the process of getting your website to the top of search engines, and it goes hand in hand with website design to make an effective internet marketing campaign.

Your website should reflect your company and industry. If you supply children’s entertainers, make your site fun and colourful. If you offer funeral services, something more sombre and dignified would be more suitable. Those are extreme examples but you get the picture. What do you want potential customers to think about your company? Cutting edge or classic? Fun or refined? Talk this through with whomever you chose to design your site to make a great first impression.

Optimising your Business Website

To optimise your business website, it needs to be Search Engine Optimised. Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO, is the process of ensuring that popular search engines such as Google can see your site clearly by including keywords that match relevant searches, getting your site linked to other high ranking sites and regularly updating your site. All of this contributes to getting your website a higher ranking on search engines.

Sounds complicated? It can be, which is why many companies choose to use a SEO company. Net66, one of the leading suppliers of SEO Manchester wide, recognise how busy business owners are which is why they ensure they take the hassle out of optimising a business website. Hiring a SEO company means not having to learn SEO yourself on top of everything else you have on your plate, or allocating a member of staff to do it and sending them on a series of training courses.

By hiring specialists you know you are getting state of the art SEO, and saving yourself time and training expenses. Optimising your website with SEO is technical, but doesn’t have to be difficult with the right company.