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MARKETING MATTERS 5. Don't forget about your mobile visitors. Mobile traffic is at an all time high. Many people are working from wherever they can right now. If your website was built years ago, it may not have a mobile template, load slowly or look terrible on a mobile device. At this point, not having a mobile site is like not having a bathroom in your house. You’d never dream of owning a house where the only lavatory is an outhouse. So remodel your website and make sure it’s mobile friendly. Remodel your website and make sure it’s mobile friendly. 6. Don't get creative with your navigation. Put your navigation at the top of your site in a logical place. Don't put it down below a huge slideshow, or at the bottom of the page. Visitors go to the top of your site to find links to all your content. And that's what your navigation is for. It's like the guide for your cable TV, or all of the apps on your phone. They all help you get where you need to go within the different systems. Also, don't get creative with naming your pages. The page names in your navigation need to be intuitive, logical things. When pages aren’t named intuitively one of two things happen. Either no one ever goes to the page or lots of people go to it, but then they leave immediately because the content on the page doesn't match what they thought would be on it. When it comes to navigation, we want to conform and follow the trends others are using. We want to welcome visitors into our website and make them feel like they're in control and comfortable using it. If they have to think about how to work it, your website isn’t working. Are you doing one of these things? Give your website a look and use this list as your guide. If you make sure to share photos of your company, explain your services fully, appeal to new hires and consider users of all types, and devices and you’ll be on track to building an awesome website. For More Information On This Advertiser Please Visit www.CallAPE.com/e-inquiry www.callape.com [16] 1.800.210.5923