Help for small businesses

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The aim of this Lens is to provide SME's ( Small Medium Enterprises) with help in maximising the potential of the Internet.  Most SME's have limited resources, so here you will find a range of useful information and links to off site support.

You can contact me at One to One marketing support. This is my support page for individuals and companies needing marketing support during these very difficult times.

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So you have a website, what now. 

Many, many people make the mistake of changing page names, deleting old pages, restructuring, and even change the site URL.

Once you have put up a page on the Web, you need to keep it up there for ever. Many people may have created a link to it, or the page may have been bookmarked.

When they cannot find the page, they go somewhere else, which means lost business opportunities and maybe bad press coverage or none at all.

With millions of blogs, a bad link is very bad news.

Remember, keep hosting all you old pages.

Want to see where all your old pages are stored? 

There are a number of online resources to see which of your pages have been indexed and achieved.

Google offers a Cache service. Type  (example:
cache:http://www.squidoo.com/) into the search box of Google and the last copy of that page will be shown. It will also help in telling you when the page was last indexed. You can do this for most pages on the Internet.

Additional help information is at Google

Want to go further back in time to see all the pages by date, the best link is at this archive site. This can go back a number of years and you can see how your website has developed.

What you can do to get better Page Rankings and found by more people? 

Firstly, there are millions of pages and thousands of companies all trying to provide the "Holy Grail" to the number one spot in all the search engines. Face facts, unless you have a great deal of time, spend lots of money, you may never
ever reach that position. But you can have a reasonable level of success if you do a wide range of self promotions.

First you need to check your Title and Meta tags in your webpage. The Title is probable the most important and should reflect what is in the content of the text of your page. Text is still king for all search engines. Still interested in doing it all yourself? here is a link to a professional website specialising in search engine optimisation.

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If you need help. 

Helping individuals and companies is my hobby now I have retired. 40 years in marketing and 12years in the Internet area, might be useful to you. You can contact me Support. This is my One to One support page for individuals and companies needing marketing support during these very difficult times.

I promoted a website which is now listed in position 1, 3, 4 in it's category, using a range of techniques, would this be helpful for you?

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Still need some help? 

Post a message here and we will try to help, Use the Contact link above.

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    OhMe OhMe May 28, 2009 @ 1:41 am
    I enjoyed reading this. I get so tired of seeing stale small business websites. I think Squidoo lenses have a lot to offer a small business.

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