{"id":13355,"date":"2016-01-18T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/?p=13355"},"modified":"2016-01-18T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T16:14:31","slug":"essential-ways-to-improve-your-website-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/essential-ways-to-improve-your-website-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Ways to Improve Your Website This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having a website is not something that you can take for granted. To get the most out of it, you need to be thinking about how you can make it better at all times. A website is never complete; it\u2019s always a work in progress. Here are some ideas to help you improve yours.<\/p>

Simplify Navigation<\/h2>

You need to make sure that people can get around your website as easily as possible. You don\u2019t want to give them too many options when they first arrive on your home page. This often leads to people not making a decision and simply leaving the website<\/a>. So, try to make sure that you consolidate the navigation options that people see. A drop-down menu is the best thing to use to do this.<\/p>

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Modernise the Basic Design Choices<\/h2>

Design choices go out of date pretty quickly. You know an old design when you see one. So, if it\u2019s been a long time since you\u2019ve made updates to your website\u2019s design, it might be time to do it. It will help to show people that your website is up to date and head of the curve. And it will simply look better, and that can surely only ever be a positive thing for the website as a whole. You don\u2019t have to completely overhaul the design of the website; you can just modernise the basic design choices.<\/p>

Upgrade Your Hosting<\/h2>

If your traffic is increasing all the time, you need to think about how your website will handle this. You don\u2019t want to cause problems for yourself by not having a strong enough web host. When you start to notice that your website is becoming slow, it\u2019s time to start thinking about upgrading your host. It\u2019s something that you can do pretty easily by visiting makeawebsitehub.com<\/a>. Compare all the different options out there and pick the host that is best for your website\u2019s specific needs.<\/p>

Optimise Your Content<\/h2>

New content is great. It helps to get more people visiting your website, and it can show people that your brand knows what it\u2019s talking about. You could become a voice in the blogosphere that everyone listens to. But before you worry about creating new content for your website, you should think about optimising the existing content you have. You can do this by linking to internal and external pages. You should also add title tags and customise the meta descriptions<\/a> for each page.<\/p>

Add a Call to Action<\/h2>

Calls to action<\/a> are the things that prompt people to do something when they arrive on your website. These are important because they help to make sure that people stick around rather than leaving or visiting another website. So, you need to add a call to action that draws people in and makes them want to take a second step inside your website. It might be a prompt towards your blog or your website\u2019s store. It doesn\u2019t matter what your main call to action is, but make sure you have one.<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having a website is not something that you can take for granted. To get the most out of it, you need to be thinking about how you can make it better at all times. A website is never complete; it\u2019s always a work in progress. Here are some ideas to help you improve yours. Simplify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[821],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13358,"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions\/13358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tricks-collections.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}