January 12, 2012

Website checklist

Here is a checklist for a successful blog site — wait, wait, stick with me. The same punch list that’s essential for a blog site is essential for your corporate or personal website.

It’s elementary. Generally, the purpose of a blog site is to make content easy to update and enable readers to respond to you. NEWSFLASH: ou need to build your corporate site with the same goals in mind.

Your shiny new website is pretty and all but it needs to do something. You need to optimize the site so that people can easily find it. So that users can provide feedback to you for product improvement. And so that you can easily update your content to reflect changing conditions (and conditions are always changing).

This article is basically a set of links to tools. Most are free. Many are part of the Google or Yahoo webmaster tool packages. All should be considered.

Yes, it is WordPress oriented, which means some of the bolt-ons won’t work on your hand-coded site. But there are plenty of alternatives to do what that widget does.

(Source: bizville.com)