A lot of you ask, “Will adding a video to my website slow it down?”
Load time for a website is an important component and quality for a successful one. Large images hosted on your server which are placed on your website can drag down load times for a webpage. The same holds true with video. However, there is an easy fix.
In order to avoid lag times in load speeds, utilize a third party site to host your videos. This way your webhost space won’t be taken up by large video files. Go to a site like Youtube.com. They have robust platform in which to upload videos. Learn how to upload a Youtube video here. Once your video is on youtube, grab the embed code and place that snippet of code on your site (in the HTML of a blog post, or on the sidebar). The video will then appear on your webpage but it will be hosted by Youtube.
Bonus: By opening a Youtube channel it will improve your SEO.
If you have a blog, you should also automatically have an RSS feed to go along with it. You will usually find it by typing in your URL (example: www.yourwebsite.com/feed or www.yourwebsite.com/rss). These feeds are easy to read and quite often saved so people can be updated every time you add a new post to your blog. In addition to having the RSS feed icon on your website for people to add to their list, you should also submit your feed to special RSS search engines.
write about that in the reviews. However, there is the occasional customers or client who has a negative experience with a company and often takes to the “airwaves” in the form of writing a negative review for all other prospective clients to see. You may think this is awful and you don’t want anything to do with the internet. Honestly, the negative review isn’t the problem. They happen. We are all human and errors are made. The problem would actually be if you allow those negative reviews to stay unanswered. On review sites, just as customers/clients can write a review, a company can respond to those reviews. A company representative can simply go on the website, and respond reassuring the disgruntled customer that they want to make situation right. By having that response public, others will see how much good service, good products, etc, mean to your company. They will also know your company is listening to their customers and they will be more amenable to buying from you in the future. Leave the negative reviews piling up and it looks like you’re hiding from them.
Pinging a Blog by Feed
You hear SEO wherever you go. Search engine optimization is important, the competition is growing everyday and everyone is fighting to stay on the top of the search engines for their categories. We work with a number of organizations to help them with both their on-page SEO as well as in code SEO. Here are our top 3 priorities for On-Page SEO.