10 Things About .com

10 Things about websites they never tell you;

 1 There is scant correlation between what you pay for a website and how good it looks

2 How cool your site looks has zero bearing on Google rankings. Google is a 'bot. It can't see your site. It can't see images. It's sole quest is relevance not aesthetics

3 None of us can promise Google rankings. We don't know how much it will cost or how long it will take to achieve your best rankings. We are always guessing

4 How many links point to your site and from who ? You can see for free. And you need to.

5 Google judges your website for it's index based mainly on things happening away from your site. Your code and content is important. But not the most important determining factors

6 Before you "go after" a keyword, you'd be wise to qualify it. For free, you can see how many people in the UK enter a keyword per month. Stuff you fancy turns out to be obsolete. Check it

7 If your site is not ranking, you'll never get new business. No matter how good your site looks

8 If you rank well but have a poorly designed site, you'll never get new business. No matter how prominently you rank

9 To pick up new foreign business, host locally. Get out of the UK to get the business in

10 If you don't use hashtags on Twitter, you're not using Twitter! #SEO not SEO