Avatar News February 15, 2008

Written By:
Steph Kendall
Edited By:
Tara Topliff
Published By:
Avatar Ltd

Valentines Day

Hi there Web Lovers,

We hope you had a nice Valentine's Day yesterday! Wouldn't it be great just to sit back and watch your visitor traffic grow and grow? Alas, miracles don't happen in the world of Web marketing, but this month we do look at how blogs can increase the number of visitors to your Web site. Plus how to make some easy money and the usual giggles and games from the Net.

Drive More Visitors To Your Site With A Blog

If you've heard about blogs, bloggers and blogging and are wondering whether you're missing a trick, this article will help you find out how blogging could potentially drive more visitors to your Web site. Plus our top 10 tips on setting up and running your blog for maximum effectiveness.

View the full Drive More Visitors To Your Site With A Blog article.

Get Stuck Into Web Stats

If you want to improve your Web site conversion rate, you first need to know how your Web site is performing. If you find out where your market is, how they reach your Web site and what they do when they get there, you can begin formulating strategies for improving your site.

Our new statistics services aim to give you both an understanding of what your stats may be telling you and access to the most useful data available. View full details for our Web site statistics services.

Special Offer — Make Some Easy Money

Just a reminder that if you recommend Avatar's Web design and development services to a third party who goes ahead with a Web design project, you'll get $200 worth of work from us for FREE and they'll get $200 off their project.

HOW IT WORKS: Simply ask your referral to mention your name when they book in work with us and we'll credit $200 of update work to your Web site.

Tidbits

This Month's Site of Interest

It's important to get the right solution for your business from a Web design and development company. They need to listen to you and find out what you want to achieve, in what time frame and on what budget. At Avatar, we pride ourselves on developing great working partnerships with our clients and keeping the lines of communication well and truly open.

USave Car Rentals

USave Car RentalsThe Brief — When one of our long-term clients, USave Rental Cars approached us to revamp their existing Web site, we were more than happy to put our creative hats on once again to help them out. USave (formerly ARF Rental Cars) underwent a huge re-branding exercise last year and wanted their existing Web site to reflect these changes, maintain its search engine positioning and to compete as effectively as possible with the 'bigger guys' in an increasingly tight and aggressive car rentals market.

What We Did — We worked closely with USave to draw up their requirements, making suggestions and recommendations on how the home page could be revamped to help increase its visual impact and to increase the amount of bookings and enquiries received. These included: