Top 11 Super Quick Website Fixes

You may think that 5 minutes aren’t enough for you to make any change on your website but you are wrong. For 5 minutes you can apply some pretty solid website fixes that will make it look way more professional.

Check out these 11 website fixes that will take you less than 5 minutes each.

Add Page Titles

Your Page Title appears on several key places, such as search engines and the tab of your browser. The title helps search engines understand what the topic of your page is. It’s a good idea to include your most important keywords in your page title as well as your brand. Be sure to keep the length up to 70 characters as search engines won’t display anything beyond that.

If you are an Oxxy user, you can easily set your page title from the Page Settings panel.

Adjust the URLs

Next is the URL. It’s also very important from an SEO perspective as it also gives information to search engines what your page is about, just as the Page Title. Make sure to make your URLs readable and always use hyphens when separating words.

 

Set Page Descriptions

Adding page descriptions to all of your pages (especially if you have a large site) could be a little more time consuming but if you have a clear idea of what you want to achieve, it could also be done pretty fast. The page description (or also meta description) isn’t visible on your website, but it appears in the search snippet. Although Google has clearly stated that the meta description isn’t a ranking factor, it’s still pretty important as it’s one of the first things that your visitors will read when they find your site through search engines.

Add Google Analytics Tracking code

If you are still not using Google Analytics to monitor your traffic, you need to do it as fast as possible. Setting up an Analytics account only takes a few minutes and in 24 hours you will start getting information. You need to first register with your Google account and put the tracking code on your website.

Google Analytics gives a huge amount of insight about your visitors and their behavior on your site. This is essential if you want to optimize your website so that more users find it useful and become your customers.

Add a favicon

The favicon is the tiny icon that appears on your browser’s tab next to the page title. It’s a good idea to put your logo there as this will make your website look way more professional and trustworthy. You need to upload your favicon in the .ico format. And don’t worry – there are plenty of free favicon generators out there where you can upload an image and convert it into .ico. You can try out favicon-generator.org or favicon.cc.

After you generate your favicon you need to go to the Site Settings panel and upload it there. Keep in mind that this feature is only available for paid subscriptions.

Add social media buttons

Social media is an important part of each business’s marketing strategy as it’s a cheap way of self-promotion. In the same time, you can also benefit a lot by letting your visitors share your content. You can do that by simply adding social sharing buttons on your pages.

And although it’s still pretty unclear whether social signals are a ranking factor, a lot of shares and likes of your content will definitely attract more visitors to your website and potential new clients.

If you use Oxxy to create your website, you can easily add all kinds of social buttons from all the major social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Adding such buttons only takes a few minutes but the benefits of it could be huge!

Add H1s to each of your pages

When styling your texts it’s not enough to only make them look the way you want but also to structure them in the right way so that search engines could also understand them. That includes using the H1 tag for your headings. This will tell your search engines what your texts are about and is one of the most important on-page optimization factors.

Keep in mind that it’s advisable to use the H1 only once on each page. If you need subheadings you can use H2 to H6.

When you create a new text in Oxxy, by default it will be a paragraph, but you can easily make it an H1 from the Text Editor.

Adjust the style of your images

If you have images on your website, sometimes you will want to make them a little fancier by styling them. Just in minutes you can add borders, shadows or glows. Using this styles right will definitely make your website look modern.

In Oxxy, you can easily adjust the style settings by opening the Style Editor of the image.

Add Alt Text attributes to your images

Alt texts (short from alternative texts) provides information about the content of images. Because Google and other search engines still cannot understand pictures, they use the alt text attribute to know what the content of an imasge is. Properly setting alt texts to your images is important from an SEO perspective as this could potentially bring new visitors to your site from search queries in Google Images.

Additionally, alt texts are displayed to your visitors when your images cannot be loaded for a certian reason. Be sure to make them as descriptive as possible and to include your primary keyword there.

Just like the other website fixes, adding alt texts to your images will only take you minutes but it can bring a lot of traffic if you do it right!

Set up your business email

If you are running a company, it’s essential that you have a personalized email with your own domain. Some of the mainstream mail services out there, such as Gmail or Hotmail, are great, but it just doesn’t look professional to use your email there for contacting business partners or customers.

If you use Oxxy, you can have up to 20 email accounts that come free with each premium subscription. Setting them up only takes minutes. You just need to activate them and you are good to go.

Get some feedback

Not exactly a website fix but still useful and not time-consuming at all. Share your site with your friends on Facebook and Twitter and ask them what they think. You will be amazed by how useful their feedback could be.

In Oxxy, you can easily share your work every time you publish your site. You just need to hit share and your site will be published on your Facebook or Twitter profiles.

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