A SOMERSET website design agency is offering free advice to businesses and e-tailers this month (April, 2018) on how to get the best from theirecommerce and static websites.

Media Orb, which has its headquarters in Bridgwater, is giving handy tips on how people can promote their sites and online stores to achieve greater success and sales.

Director and founder of the business, Alex Locke says:

“Publicising your products or services is extremely important, but people are often so pre-occupied by doing this that they forget to publicise one of the most important aspects of their businesses, their website.

“The main reason a firm’s website may have low visitor numbers is because those that run it just aren’t telling people about it. A website acts as the main online source of information about a company, so it’s crucial a trail of virtual breadcrumbs right to its homepage is left wherever you go online.

“There are lots of great ways to help boost traffic to your website such as leaving a meaningful comment on someone’s blog along with your website address. Someone may be following you on Facebook or Twitter who has never visited your website before. Make sure you regularly link back to different pages of your website in a variety of non-commercial status updates or tweets. Ask people if they’ve checked out your latest blog post or new images and leave a link for them to follow.

“The ‘about you’ section of your social media profile is the first thing people see when they click on your profile picture in an attempt to be your friend. Making sure you list your website address here is also extremely important.

“Twitter and Facebook aren’t the only social media platforms out there though. Check out the likes of Pinterest, Google+ and LinkedIn, where you can create profiles and again link back to your website.”

Media Orb, which is a fast-growing, responsive, customer-driven website design agency, also has a sister office in Marble Arch Tower, London.

Alex added:

“Simply interacting with people on various forums, profiles or social networking platforms is a great way to stimulate back links to your website too.

“The best thing about leaving your link scattered across the World Wide Web for people to follow is that it’s free and easy to do. All it takes is one click and someone arrives at your website, then comes the hard part…keeping them there.

“We’ve many years’ experience in designing, building and delivering bespoke and innovative websites, including complex ecommerce sites, which have been created to help increase clients’ sales and meet their specific needs.

“Our clients include start-ups, SMEs and multi-nationals and we have a proven track record of sustaining a long-term commitment to them to create and develop tailor-made websites, often with a design twist, which become their most powerful marketing tool.

“We take the time to get to know our customers, to listen to them and to appreciate what makes them unique. We meet them in their business environment and get to understand what it is they need from a website, whether it’s a static, content managed site or a full ecommerce one.”

Media Orb specialises in website design and development, ecommerce sites, web hosting and support, print, branding, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), web security and social media marketing.

“Our clients receive a professional service that is sympathetic to their budgets and time scales, big or small, and we can even help them with their content.

“But we’re not just about building a site and then disappearing, we also offer marketing assistance, as there is no point in having a new and whizzy website if no one can find it. So, our online marketing kit includes search engine optimisation (SEO) and social media assistance too.”

The company provides free phone-based and ticket-based technical support and its team pledges to be completely customer-focused.

“You can talk to an expert, who is a friendly, approachable human being when you need to, and our service mantra is not to let anyone down. The solutions we provide are also easy to use and full training is given. You can be as involved as much or as little as you wish with in your project and we’ll work alongside you, not against you.”

For further details, please contact Media Orb, which has its headquarters on Bristol Road in Bridgwater, on 01278 450 312, visit www.mediaorb.co.uk, www.facebook.com/mediaorbltd or@Mediaorb1.