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Custom CMS web design budget tips and advice for the development of your website design and blog prove to be an invaluable resource. Having a functional website that drives traffic to your company won’t always come easily and takes an experienced website designer to fulfill.

This recent article written by expert author Jim Degerstrom on a wide variety of Custom CMS Web Design Budget Tips could come in useful to have a great functional website and feel good about the price you paid for it.

Some excerpts from Jim’s recently published article:

“Budget funds for as much quality as you can afford for the initial development and launch of your custom CMS web design.”

“Evaluate your options for a source to create the custom CMS web design based on their quality and experience.”

“Plan to add original quality content often to your new custom CMS web design to attract repeat visitors.”

Finding the right website designer to handle your project for your small business may not be as easy as it sounds. Being able to have a site with the ability to add, delete or edit content in plain text without technical skills could be very valuable, and that’s what Jim Degerstrom and myself at CodeRepair offer.

Read the entire article on Custom CMS Web Design Budget Tips

Keyword tracking for SEO helps regulate which keywords should be used to gain traffic for your website. By thinking about what potential clients would search to find your products and services, small business website owners can direct more traffic to their website. Keyword tracking tools can aid in the research necessary to drive more traffic to a website.

Do a Google search on some keywords you might use to find your website.  Have a look at what business come up and take a look at what keywords they use.  Make a list of 10 or 20 keywords that fit your business niche the best and keep those in mind for tags when you write blog posts and for keywords on website pages.

Some Keyword Tracking Tools for SEO Include:

Read more about Search Engine Optimization, view these Keyword Research Resources and have a look at some more posts on SEO.

I’ve compiled this list of “10 ways to come up with blog post ideas” in order to make it easier for writers to get the creative juices flowing.
Hope these blog tips help!

1. Solve a Problem
Answer a question for your readers, and try to solve a problem you may have come across yourself. A great way to attract readers is to be helpful in your posts.

2. Pick a Topic and Research it Online
By thinking of a topic to write about and doing a little research, you can get the rolling start for writing in your own blog. Researching keywords can help as well.

3. Brainstorm and Write Some Headlines
Pick some headlines you feel like writing about today, and keep a list. Pick out the ones that you feel you have some great ideas about, and carry a notepad with you.

4. Ask Readers
Find out what your readers want you to write about next, or pay attention to the types of questions that come up in social media, Twitter for example.

5. Create a Post With Older Post Links
Refer to other posts you’ve written in the past as reference for your readers.

6. Research
Read books, newspapers, watch the news, and write about current news in your niche.

7. Write When Inspiration Hits You
The best time to write is when you’re inspired to. Don’t lose a thought because it was forgotten, so carry a notepad or voice recorder with you for when good ideas hit you.

8. Take Breaks
When the stream of ideas starts to fade, take a break and refresh yourself. We all need food, drink and rest to function properly, so don’t forget the bare necessities.

9. Read Other Blog Posts
Subscribing and reading what others are writing about is a great inspirational tool to get the creative juices flowing.

10. Write About What You’ve Learned
If you’ve learned something and find it useful, don’t hesitate to share. Nothing brings your readers back faster than when you’ve taught them something they can really use.

Have a look at these other blog related posts that give tips and advice on writing blog posts, filtering spam, writing to increase traffic, WordPress advantages over Blogger and more.

Attaching blog posts to external sources can add value to your blog posts for various reasons. By realizing that blogs add pages to a website, small business website owners can gain ranking with Google even more by linking those posts to multiple other blogging websites.

Once a website is added to external blogging sources on the web, this links posts to other websites, just by adding a single post. Add a new post every two or three days, and now a small business website owner could potentially gain a dozen links in a single week. I use Zimbio and Blogflux myself, and have found that by doing a Google search of my name, now links to these sites are provided in connection with my business name, Coderepair. Just by adding to a couple weblog posting sites has improved my accessibility online with Google.

Attach a blog post to external sources on the internet to add value, page ranking, and accessibility to your small business website page, and eventually, those increased website page visitors may have a greater chance of being converted into customers.

Have a look at these other blog related posts that give tips and advice on writing blog posts, filtering spam, writing to increase traffic, WordPress advantages over Blogger, ways to come up with post ideas and more.

Look at our Custom Blog Design Prices and Low Cost Website Design Prices on this website.

Writing blog posts for your small business website is an important element to keep fresh content constantly added, in order to add SEO. A blog is a great place to offer your visitors useful information and advice, as I do, giving your readers a reason to visit your website often. I thought I would compile a summary of tips and pointers I use to write effective blog posts.

Write for your reader in an informal yet appropriate fashion, making it as easy to understand as if you were talking to a friend or relative. Write about what you are comfortable with, such as your business or reviews of opinions or new topics that have come up within your niche of business. Offer advice, write about things you’ve recently learned, and things you have discussed with clients to draw your readers in for your next post.

Include tags and labels in your posts, to link to outside sources and include them when you publish with Blogger. Also, write a few posts and set them to schedule every few days in Blogger, so they go out automatically even when you aren’t writing. Do research on topics related to your business and inform your readers on things you’ve learned. Write about a problem, the action taken to solve it, and the results of these actions.

Using these tips on writing blog posts can effectively improve your small business website, increase your traffic and your page ranking over a period of time.

Have a look at these other blog related posts that give tips and advice on writing blog posts, filtering spam, writing to increase traffic, WordPress advantages over Blogger, ways to come up with post ideas and more.

Look at our Custom Blog Design Prices on this website.

Stickiness is necessary for a website to be effective, sometimes websites die off quickly because of lack of stickiness. Stickiness can be enhanced within your webpage as well as in blog posts. Successful blogs depend upon having readers who come back on a regular basis. Creating a groups of loyal readers is based on quality information in your posts, and keeping your blog content original and interesting.

First of all, understand what stickiness is and how to increase it in your website. Stickiness is defined as “The amount of time spent at a site over a given time period”. Stickiness is anything about a website that encourages a potential customer to stay longer and return on a regular basis, and is measured by the average minutes each month that website visitors spend at a website, and sometimes measured by “page views”. Website stickiness is a comparison of number of visits to a webpage (repeat usage) versus the time spent per usage (session stickiness). A website is considered “Sticky” if someone is encouraged to stay for a period of time and returns regularly. Provide wanted content, allow site personalization and invite user feedback with a “comments” section. Indicators of loyalty and site views are very important measures that websites can offer advertisers.

Stickiness for effective websites means that more people will be attracted to your site and remain there longer. Stick to the topics and stay focussed to go in-depth on single subjects. By increasing your website’s stickiness you can increase your webpage’s popularity and page ranking.

Have a look at these other blog related posts that give tips and advice on writing blog posts, filtering spam, writing to increase traffic, WordPress advantages over Blogger, ways to come up with post ideas and read more about Search Engine Optimization.

Deciding what tags and labels to include on your small business website log, or blog, is one of the first challenges to face. First, understand the difference between the terms: Tags and Labels, and secondly use that knowledge to direct more traffic to your small business website, thus increasing usability and backlinks for search engine optimization.

A blog should be an informal account of your thoughts of the day, talking to your audience like you would to a friend. The tags and labels within your blogs are used primarily to aid your website visitors. Blogs contain tags and labels, which are important key words and phrases that assist with navigation either to or around your website pages. Tags lead visitors to your small business website and are a link to Technorati that create backlinks for bringing traffic to your website, adding promotional value to your blog. Blog tags should be simple, 3 words or less using key words, because keyword tags are more likely to attract visitors to your blog.

Once visitors arrive on your small business website, labels are keywords within your site which organize your posts and refer visitors to other pages in your website with related topics. Like a filing system, labels group your blog posts into categories, and both tags and labels should be contained in the content body of the blog post they are in.

Using tags and labels can facilitate navigation within your small business website, and help search engines find you easier as well. Using appropriate tags and labels for your content will aid search engines in finding you on the internet, and help navigation of your web pages to your visitors once they arrive there.

Read more about Search Engine Optimization
Look at our Custom Blog Design Prices on this website.

Letting a website sit idle by not adding content often enough may force it to die off within a few months, and it will never receive an esteemed ranking with Google or other search engines. Another important point is that having improper keyword density, or KD, is just like having no keywords in your site at all. A low keyword density will get you penalized, and too many or “stuffing” keywords into a page will be picked up on by search engines as well. It’s wrong to try to use deceptive practices in order to reach page one of Google.

Blogging with original quality content as often as possible is important, even if it is only once or twice a month, but obviously, the more posts the better. Search engines know if content has been added, and reward those who add fresh content on a regular basis. Also, an appropriate keyword density of around 4 percent is rather important to optimize your search engine optimization, or SEO. Keyword density is a percentage ratio of number of instances of a keyword on a single web page, divided by the total number of words on that page. Keyword density can be easily calculated by a downloadable program from a site known as Dupefree Pro.

Blogging approximately once or twice a week can improve your page ranking because blogs give search engines more resources for visitors to link to your page. Also,it will give you an edge over the 90 percent of small business website owners who do not blog regularly, and the page ranking, or PR, of your small business website is more likely to increase. Again, maintain a keyword density at or close to 4% in order for search engines to find you more often, and your stats with Google will undoubtedly improve greatly.

Look at our Custom Blog Design Prices on this website.

Of the approximate 6 million small business enterprises in the USA, those with 20 or fewer employees are still the vast majority. 5.23 million have fewer than 20 employees, and only 760,000 have 20 or more. These are the latest published statistics from the US Census Bureau, and the breakdown is rounded off as follows:

Total Number of Small Businesses in USA by Size

20,000 with 500+ employees
110,000 with 100+ employees
630,000 with 20+ employees
5,230,000 with 20 or less

5,990,000 Total Number

Micro small business website ownership of at least one home page is more than 70%. Of those, only 5% have added a small business blog to their site according to a NY Times piece reported in December 2007, and entitled Blogging’s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool.

Based on this 5% which may be slightly higher according to others tracking data, there are only 299,500 small business websites with blogs. If you are one of the 30% of small business owners without a website, or one of the 95% without a blog, my advice is starting now with this low cost marketing tool to promote your small business. Let us know how we can help with your strategy of keeping up with or staying ahead of the competition.

The advice theme for www.CodeRepair.com has been revised under new ownership to commercial services for custom website design, custom blog design, and standard package website design, plus web graphics.

This site was previously managed by my father, and I am the new owner, Roger Degerstrom. The format was changed from a Joomla cms based system to custom XHTML 1.1 and CSS2, and topics on this blog include design advice, custom blogs, website design, related news, podcasts, site promotion, various reviews, and search engine optimization.

I apologize for the sudden change or any inconvenience. The time required managing several sites can be difficult, and he continues working full time and long hours in his custom web design business, blog, and podcast, and he will continue as a mentor to Code Repair as this site is now strictly design related.

I welcome small business owners interested in low cost standard or fully custom websites designed in XHTML 1.1 with CSS2, or custom Blogger blogs. With the change of ownership, yet all in the family, my slogan relates to that plus the advantages of using the latest XHTML code with “The Next Generation in Custom Website Design”.