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getclicky! Is really addictive! We love checking our web stats and this is our favourite. You can check your website visitors in real time, and with tones of extra features you couldn’t ask for more….oh wait did we mention it was free! Blimey!

Google webmasters. This is found within your Google account under your settings tab and again is to see how your websites are doing within the big G. Google will produce a informative yet simple report of your website, including keyword density, faults, pages indexed and loads more.

Google Adwords Here at Futonic we are not ashamed to admit we are addicted to Google Adwords. Every time we have a spare five minutes, or looking into purchasing a new domain name, or keyword research for a client any excuse to get on there!

pfft.co.uk This is the blog of “Chris Clarkson” his blog is a great read to anyone who has an interest in Affiliate marketing and other forms of internet marketing. Chris Clarkson is the Affiliate manager at sunshine.co.uk His posts are always, enjoyable, informative and interesting.

Other Blogs we have to visit everyday include:

• lammo.net

• fwitter.co.uk

• here.org.uk

• nikkipilkington.com

We hope to bring you some interviews with the owners of these blogs soon!

nichegeek.com this niche business blog is a great place to stop and read about some of the simple, brilliant and sometimes crazy niche business ideas from around the globe. This blog is a great place but it can be very frustrating at the same time! Why I hear you ask? Well I bet within 5 minutes of looking through some of the articles on Niche geek you will say, “I wish id thought of that!” This website also highlights some of the great people in the world who had a crazy idea for a business and stuck with it!

UK business labs A forum packed full of really helpful people, some who just started in business or are experts in their field. We check it out every day to see if anyone is in need on any SEO help or local businesses starting up in Wiltshire.

Shell live wire is another great forum for business start ups and young entrepreneurs, to help get their business ideas off the ground. It has a great community and every one is really friendly.

NMA (New Media Age) Is a great haunt of ours to catch up on all the latest news and stories within the industry. NMA is full of rich content and have recently produced an iPhone app which allows readers to keep up to date with the latest news on the go.

Twitter of course this had to be in here somewhere. We love twitter and is one of the best online tools an online marketing company could ask for! Even if you don’t even tweet that often there is so much useful information floating around (If you follow the right people). Its not just people telling you what they have had for their dinner!

techcrunch.com Tech crunch is anther website with news and stories from the world of tech. We love our tech at Futonic and check out this website regularly for all the gossip.

startupdonut.co.uk this next site is fantastic! Start up donut not only has a great name but is properly the best place on the internet to visit if you are thinking of setting up a business. Start Up Donut is packed with tones of free advice, tools and resources to help you accomplish for your goals. We still use Start up donut everyday for tips and advice, and enjoy reading the forum.

So thats it, some quick twitter tips to enable you get you started promoting your business on twitter. Twitter really can help to grow your online business with regards to terms of traffic and visitors but also in terms of reaching out into the online community and making new contacts, clients, leads and sales.

Choosing a domain name for your business can be quite difficult, and can take a lot of time to come up with a name. We have put together a short article to help you make that decision.

What are you selling?

Use Goggles Keyword tool to find out how many times online your products or services are typed into Google. So if you were going to be selling “Handmade jewellery” as an example. You would go to Goggles keyword tool and type into the search box “Handmade jewellery”. Once you hit enter you will then have in front of you loads of keywords results for “handmade jewellery”. Once you have all the results on the right hand side change the “Match Type” to Exact. This will then give you an exact number of times that your keywords are typed into Google on a local and global scale. At the time this article was written the Keyword phrase “Handmade Jewellery” had a exact local search volume of 18,100. Look for any high volumes of search results for domain name ideas.

Decisions, decisions

Now its time for you to make the decision. Do you want to purchase a domain name for you business that is your own brand name, or a keyword domain which is already getting search results? It can be quite difficult to make a decision. One key thing to think about if the domain name for your keywords is available is to snap it up straight away whether you intend to use it or not.

If you do decide to purchase the keyword domain for your business, the next decision to make is what domain extension you will purchase. If you are a UK business or are based in the UK the best extension for Google.co.uk is of course .co.uk and .org.uk. Google.co.uk treats them both exactly the same and you will get great results from them. It makes sense for businesses in certain categories to purchase and use keyword domains as you will instantly get a certain percentage of the search volume to your website a month and visitors mean sales! If you purchased the .co.uk extension for handmade jewellery and you only received 5% of the 18,000 search volume a month that is still 900 visitors to your site a month, which certainly cant be grumbled at!

If you decide to use your own name to promote your business it must at least contain one keyword not only help people to remember the name of your business, but also get you he results from the search engines. So for example if your name was Emma and you were in the process of setting up a handmade jewellery store your domain should look something like this “Emmashandmadejewels.co.uk” or “Emmashandmadejewellery.co.uk”. These examples contain those valuable keywords. Sometimes having a branded domain can be beneficial, if people forget the name of your business, because they’ve lost your business card they will probably remember your name was Emma and type into Google “Emma’s handmade jewels” and bosh they’ve found your business again, because it was easy to remember and it contained those keywords.

Remember you can still call your business “Emmas handmade Jewels”, but make sure you use that keyword rich domain name as it will get you great results in the search results.

There you have it, a quick guide to help you choose the right domain name for your website. All of the domains and names in this articles are only examples.

Its every small businesses dream to be on the first page of Google or any other search engine for their keywords, services they offer or products. So to give some friendly advice to help you get those kind of results we have put together a quick top 10 tips to help you.

1* Domain names.

There are plenty of companies out there to purchase domain names from. Try and avoid the free domains available from certain what you see is what you get web design companies, and if you’re a company or a business based in the UK try and get your self a .co.uk extension domain name. Though if the .co.uk extension has been registered then an .org.uk is just as good as most search engines treat .co.uk and .org.uk extensions the same.

2* Don’t get Flashy

So you have spent lots of money on a Flash website, with lots of fancy graphics floating around, shapes and tricks, looks great doesn’t it. But its terrible for search engines especially Google! Google is one of the most intelligent search engines in the world, but at least for the moment it cannot read or index flash images. So get you writing! The more text that is on your front page the better. Remember text is best!

3* Navigation

Make sure your website has great navigation and is easy to follow. Most search engines look to see if your navigation is clear and obvious, and there are no dead links that take them to a non existent pages or pages that cannot be found.

4* Meta Tags

Do not listen to anyone who tells you that using meta tags are a waste of time, as its complete garbage! Make sure you have keyword rich Meta tags for every single page of our website. Your website will benefit massively from this, and appear a lot more in search engines.

5* Title Tags

Titles are probably the most important part of any website. You wouldn’t buy a book with no title, so why should people look at your website with no title!? Titles tags show in the search engines for your relevant keywords, and the more relevance they have the greater results.

6* Keywords

If you are unsure as to which keywords to put into your title tags or to use in your content get yourself over to Google keyword tool, and search for the highest searched keywords, then add them to your title tags, content, keyword tags

7* Content, content, content

Make sure you have and continue to add content frequently to make your website stand out from the crowd in search engines. One key fact to remember is your are targeting a keywords or services make sure you have those keywords in your content. People cannot understand why their website is not appearing for their targeted keywords when they do not mention those keywords once in any of there content.

8* Site maps

A map of your website is a simple way to help search engines move around you site and will also help your visitors too. Google sitemaps were a closely guarded secret amongst webmasters for a long time. But now anyone can install a sitemap to there website, to help improve there websites visibility with simple online software. For more information go to [http://sitemap.google.com] and get reading!

9* Links

Be careful where you gain links to and from your website! Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking they can get 1000 links to your website for £100. They will be able to get you 1000 links to your website for a £100, but the possible damage that could be done to your website could be catastrophic and your website could plummet out of the search engines faster than a lead balloon! Choose your links carefully and make sure the links have some relevance to your website or business. When it comes to links its quality not quantity.

10* Track

Does your website track visitors? Where there coming from? What pages there visiting the most? How long they spend on your website? No. Every heard of Google Analytics? If not your missing out! It will allow you tweak your website and track visitors. Plus it will put another gold star next to your websites names in Google’s little book.

They we are then, it is as simple as that! Follow these ten simple steps and your search engine rankings will improve.