
Not being consistent
If your website has inconsistencies it can give your visitor a poor experience, make browsing more difficult, and reflect negatively on you and your business.
There are still a lot of websites frightening potential customers away and putting the site owners’ businesses at risk due to not having SSL security in place.
Your site isn’t secure if it’s an “http://” site. It’s now the expected standard requirement for websites to be “https://”.
An ‘SSL Certificate’ is needed to do this – which encrypts data sent between your site and its users, ensuring everything stays safe from cyber criminals (such as credit card details, personal addresses, and other sensitive information).
If your site doesn’t have this protection, the web browser will inform visitors that the site is ‘unsafe’ or ‘not private’. Obviously, this isn’t great for your perceived image or trustworthiness, or for your business – especially if personal data gets stolen.
Search engines prefer safe websites too. Google will not favour unsecure sites or list them well in search engine results.
Securing your website, and making the URL begin with HTTPS, is fairly straightforward and your website creator or host should be able to implement this for you. The pricing can vary.
It involves you or your website provider purchasing a unique SSL Certificate, and getting that installed/associated with your website. The certificate, like your domain name, requires renewing – normally annually.
As well as installing an SSL Certificate, be sure to take other protective measures (against data theft, hacking, malicious attacks…) by regularly backing up your website, and ensuring all your apps and plugins are always up to date.
Don’t leave it until it’s too late!
I can perform a full audit of your website for you, and give professional feedback and recommendations for your content, navigation, layout, Search Engine Optimisation, and more. It would be great to chat. Please email victor.taylor@aspectavenue.com – or call 07803 817 970. Best times to phone are normally Mon-Fri, between 10am and 3pm.
If your website has inconsistencies it can give your visitor a poor experience, make browsing more difficult, and reflect negatively on you and your business.
There are many benefits to running a blog on your business website, but often, even if started off well, a blog section gets left behind
I talked about Content and Information Overload in Website Oversight number 5. On the other end of the spectrum are websites with ‘not enough’ content
More than just a subjective opinion about styles and colours, this is about the overall visitor experience, the readability of your site’s content and navigation/links
I’d say that having pop-ups on your site should be avoided as much as possible, or altogether. Or at least implemented in a thoughtful way.
A very large percentage, maybe more than 75% of website owners, don’t use analytics tools to track their site’s performance. You invested time and money
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