One of my customers who owns a boat tour business down the west coast of  scenic South Island gets a lot of compliments for her website.

She used to have a simple HTML site.  I revamped the site for her about a year ago to a WordPress site. She saw a good jump in her traffic and her bookings. One of the reasons is she writes a post in her blog occasionally. Imagine her traffic if she does regularly!

she is very happy with the site and regularly gets compliments. Here is what she wrote to me yesterday:-

” Getting lots of compliments for the site, even from a web designer who is staying here so all is well!”

She loves it so much that she wants a second site for another business of hers.

As a small business the website is crucial to her marketing and bookings. So if you are a small business and want an editable website that you can update easily contact me today!

Here is the website that my client loves   www.okaritoboattours.co.nz

I am working on making this site more up to date with look and feel. Of course it will still beon WordPress. Just revamping the look. Hopefully it will be completed by this weekend.

I can’t stress more on having a wordpress site. Looking at my blog stats I have watched my traffic grow so much. All the stats can be viewed with a few clicks. You know

• Where your visitor came from
• What keyword they used
• Who refered you
• Which pages they visited
• You can endlessly tweak your content to suit your visitors.

You can update and add content in a few clicks as well. And when I am traveling I still update my site.

What more can you ask for? So those of you that have a HTML site and want to change it to WordPress and see some quick traffic and conversions contact me for a quote.

• editing without needing to know HTML
• easy to update current events – takes a few minutes
• No uploading of files – like static HTML sites
• post-dating of articles so they can automatically “go live” in the future
• reader participation through comments
• organization of the content using tags – these are like signposts for search engines
• If you already have a site and are switching to WordPress you can retain the URL addresses
• easy addition of new functionality (because it is “open source”)
• free support by the very responsive developer and user communities
• Pinging facility – pings newsaggregators automatically
• You can add gazillions of plugins to add more functionality
• easy to integrate social media widgets – seamless with twitter, Digg etc
• Instant traffic – no waiting 3 months to see a few visitors
• So many free themes and custom themes to choose from
• Add image galleries videos very easily

What more do you want? It is one click installation if you use Hostgator.

I set up a review site last night for a product with WordPress. It is a simple 4 page site with some useful articles. Guess what this morning in my stats I saw 11 unique hits.! If I had done a static HTML site I am sure this would have taken about 2-3 weeks or more. Two keyword searches for the very specific product I was recommending. Now way HTML site can achieve this.

So if you are a small business owner and want some quick exposure online, some targeted traffic  contact me and I can set up a wordpress site for a very reasonable cost. I will train you to update your site and teach you basic SEO functions.

From my experience Google love WordPress.

I am in the process of updating a Wordpress manual I created a while ago. Hopefully I will finish it in a week or so. The manual is a couple of versions behind now.

The purpose of the manual is to help people quickly put up a simple self hosted wordpress site. This can be just for your blog or it can be a full fledged small business site or an affiliate site.

In the Wordpress Manual I will teach you how to

• Find a good hosting company to host your WordPress site
• Install WordPress on your hosting account.
• Upload a WordPress Theme (or template)
• Resources of where you can get free themes
• Custom themes
• Must have plug ins
• Writing copy
• Uploading files to remote server
• Inserting images
• embedding videos

And much more….

I will be asking a small price for this manual as I have put in many hours of work.  At a later stage I would like to set up a forum where people who have the manual can discuss the problems they face or solutions etc.

If you feel you are technically savvy enought to setup WorPress and build a website this manual will make it really easy with detailed screenshots and step-by-step guidance.

Watch this space.