How to create a successful website – It is a common question. Every day we are being asked for helping in making it happen.
Some people think that only search engine optimization is a key for success.
Guys, it is not true.

STEP 1: Start by creating a basic road map.

This will help you in keeping the directions and your dreams together. Keep in mind that this is an evolutionary process. You can change it and modify. The most important thing is to start doing it. The visions and dreams are really important but building a great website, portal or online shop like e-bay, Amazon or onet.pl takes years.  Please remember it. Evolution is the best solution at the beginning. Start small and grow big.

STEP 2: Determine what the main goal for your website is:

• informative about you, your current or future business,
• a lead generation to concrete group of clients,
• e-commerce,
• fun,
• content sharing, etc.

Each goal requires different tools, skills and investment of time, money. It can be a hybrid of many goals but please remember to start with realistic goals for you and your resources. Building some tools require a time ( 6-12 months) and money.

STEP 3: Once you choose your goals we can concentrate on designing your website:

1. do you have your logo, visual identity
2. what is your style – colors, behavior, clothes
3. what are your clients that you have already and you would like to have
4. what other websites you like and enjoy
5. tools to drive traffic into your website or online shop
6. and many other detailed questions

STEP 4: We present designs, layout of major pages for you, some tools:

like sliders, video or photo galleries, forms, quizzes and others that are in the scope of your initial project.

STEP 5: Development

Once you approve the designs  a typical agency will start working on coding and development of your website or online shop.

STEP 6: Tools creation or configuration to help drive the right traffic to your website.

The web is a very competitive space- over 11 billion web pages, so you need to be strategic in deciding what works best  for you. Some of these tools include search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, social media marketing and search engine optimization. We help in:

• newsletter configuration
• linking to most popular e-mail marketing tools like mailchimp, getresponse.com or Polish  freshmail.
• setting social media:  Facebook fanpage, Youtube channel, twitter, etc.
• setting web statistics

STEP 7: The time to decide how and where you’re going to spend your (limited) marketing budget.

At the beginning your website, domain is unknown. You need to start with some SEO elements:

• adding urls to most common search engines ( we can help in it)
• adding good content with key words you would like to be searched
• adding meta descriptions and alt descriptions to your pages, photos and videos

STEP 8: If you have budget, it would be good to  start also:

• paid search activities to promote your website.
• adding your website to some professional catalogs
• adding your online shop to price comparison portals like ceneo.pl, nokaut.pl
• adding some offers into allegro.pl or any other partner portal

These activities depend on your main goal, budget and strategy.

Some tools work very well for online shops, some work better for websites and portals.

STEP 9: At the end what is the most important? CONTENT and CHANGES

You need to spend time to build your brand, your website, products to change it frequently.  Please apply what you learn from your web metrics. These include page views, length of visits, traffic volume and trends, and you should study them to improve your site’s content, navigation and performance.
This enables you to offer a better experience to your visitors and create a successful website.

Good luck! Of course we can help:)