Tiny Web Bits http://www.tinywebbits.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:52:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Am I doing good on the web ? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TinyWebBits/~3/lWDxoopHWN0/am-i-doing-good-on-the-web http://www.tinywebbits.com/featured/am-i-doing-good-on-the-web#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:52:08 +0000 admin http://www.tinywebbits.com/?p=32 Big question ! In time, we will dedicate a complete section to help you find your way in the enormous world of stats and measures. A lot of solutions exists, but for start, you only need basic numbers.

 To be able to know if your are doing good on the web, you will need some stats. For your website, the best free tool is Google Analytics. When properly associated with the URL of your website, it provide a constant monitoring of the visitors of your website. Days after days, it will compile data about your visitors and get them ready for you to analyze them through easy-to-read reports.

Google is providing a good tutorial to help you getting through the installation. Install it, then get back to TinyWebBits.com to learn what to do with this tool.

What if I don’t have a website ?

You don’t have a website and you have a business ? Get one ! Tons of people search on the web to find company that can help them answer their needs. Come on, you don’t have to build the next Amazon.com website. A website with a Services page, a Contact page and which looks good and professional is enough. When you get your website, install Google Analytics.

What if I don’t think I should have a website ?

It happens, in some industries. You should however have a web presence. Twitter, Facebook, a blog, YouTube videos, whatever else… But you MUST be present on the web. We will discuss other ways to measure your performance on the web in other posts

]]> http://www.tinywebbits.com/featured/am-i-doing-good-on-the-web/feed 0 http://www.tinywebbits.com/featured/am-i-doing-good-on-the-web?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=am-i-doing-good-on-the-web Be present, protect your brand http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TinyWebBits/~3/l3faeMddMms/be-present-protect-your-brand http://www.tinywebbits.com/headline/be-present-protect-your-brand#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:45:15 +0000 admin http://www.tinywebbits.com/?p=16 Having a website with a nice domain name that tells people who are you is no longer enough.

The day you will feel confortable to take a leap on the web, do it right by securising your brand on some website that you could be using soon. It is the very first steps of building a good web presence. During past years, you just have to have a website with good keywords and the search engine were doing the rest of the job of promoting your website in the first results.

It is not enough today. You must have other websites that refer to you. You must create a “vibe” on the web that is referring to you. We will have other posts that will explain in-depth how to build a great web presence. You, should however start your web presence by creating accounts in these websites :

Facebook (www.facebook.com/CompanyName)
Twitter (www.twitter.com/CompanyName)
LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/CompanyName)
YouTube (www.youtube.com/user/CompanyName)
Flickr (www.flickr.com/groups/CompanyName)

These are the basic websites on which you should have an account for your brand. There is no need at this time to add content on these sites, but the account should be ready for when you will be.

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