{"id":178,"date":"2012-05-17T17:17:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T23:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bubblemedia2.wpengine.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:33:57","slug":"10-common-local-business-website-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"10 Common Local Business Website Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good website is now one of the most important things a local business can do to generate new customers. But the definition of a good website is too often that it \u201clooks good<\/em>\u201d without really understanding how a website functions with customers and the rest of the Internet. Here is a list of the most common problems we find with websites:<\/p>\n

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  1. Doesn\u2019t ask for and thus doesn\u2019t generate leads<\/li>\n
  2. Doesn\u2019t showcase your business to Google and other search engines<\/li>\n
  3. Expects the visitor to read the home page<\/li>\n
  4. Doesn\u2019t answer common questions (phone number, hours, directions)<\/li>\n
  5. Doesn\u2019t tell a visitor why your business is special or different from a customer\u2019s point of view<\/li>\n
  6. Attempts to make you look big and impersonal<\/li>\n
  7. Appeals to the lowest-profit customers<\/li>\n
  8. Has outdated or stale information<\/li>\n
  9. Doesn\u2019t work on the iPhone, iPad or other mobile devices<\/li>\n
  10. Nobody pays attention to whether the website is up and working<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If a website looks good, but doesn\u2019t generate new customers, then it isn\u2019t doing its job. Businesses should expect their website to work as hard as they do in building the business.<\/p>\n

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    If you are interested in turning your website into a great performing website, give us a call.\u00a0 Our affordable and sales-focused solutions are ideal for maximizing results and minimizing costs. We promise we’ll make it easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A good website is now one of the most important things a local business can do to generate new customers. But the definition of a good website is too often that it \u201clooks good\u201d without really understanding how a website functions with customers and the rest of the Internet. Here is a list of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}