Setting up a Facebook business page can seem like a daunting task. Some of you may have attempted to set one up, but didn’t get past the cover photo or choosing a business category, while some of you have vowed to avoid it altogether.
In this step-by-step article, we’ll walk you through how to set up a Facebook page for your business in 2017.

Many people choose where to host their website based solely on cost alone, leaving their site vulnerable to poor security at the webhost, or even poor practices and maintenance of their servers. The old adage of “You get what you pay for” is certainly just as true for web hosts as it is for other goods and services.
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Another issue is that even if you do have website backups turned on, it could be backing up to the same server on which your website is hosted. Therefore, if the server dies both your website and backups could die along with it. If you’re not sure how your site is being backed up, I highly recommend you contact your webhost to determine what could be done in the case of an emergency.

Do you have a website for your business? If so, you may be running WordPress, which 90% of new websites are developed in these days. It may be confusing to know what the traffic is like to your website, even if you have signed up for Google Analytics – the amount of information there can be overwhelming.
You may be asking yourself, “How can I get a quick summary of my website’s statistics? Well now you can, by installing the free plugin Google Analytics Dashboard for WP. This plugin has been installed more than 200,000 times and has a rating of 4.5, so you can feel comfortable it is tried and tested.
Note that you must already be signed up for the free Google Analytics tool at http://analytics.google.com. You must also already have the tracking code on your website. If you need help doing that, please contact us. Log in to your Google Analytics account, then in a different tab, install the plugin into the admin section of your website.
This is the view you’ll see on your website’s dashboard. It shows the number of users over the past 30 days, as well as the number of sessions (the number of users including multiple visits). Page views is the number of individual web pages that were served to your users, and the bounce rate is the percentage of users that visit only 1 page of your website. Organic search is the number of users that found your website through the search engines (not paid ads or paid clicks), and pages per session is the average number of pages visited by a user in a browsing session.

By playing with the filters on top, you can see various time periods and measurements that are important to determining ways to optimize your website and also how your other marketing campaigns may be doing to bring visitors to your site.
Another view shown here also shows which pages are the most popular, and how the traffic is getting there. Direct traffic means that people are typing in your web address into the address bar, so it could be a good hint that your other marketing activities are working well if this number is high. Organic refers to people clicking on your link in the search engines. Referral are people coming to your site by clicking on links from other sites, and finally Social are visitors who are coming from Social sites like Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter, and the like.
Knowing how to measure the performance of your website is the first step in determining how your onsite and offsite marketing campaigns are doing.
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