Top 20 Reasons Your Website Is Failing

All businesses benefit from a high-performing website that delivers a constant flow of targeted business leads.  But in reality, many business owners are not on the right track to achieve this goal!

High Website Performance = More Sales!

By making the right choices most all website problems can be overcome.  We can coach you and show you about the different elements and characteristics that are present in high-performing websites, and help boost your site to where it needs to be in the search engine rankings.  We know internet marketing!  Carefully planned web content expansion and work completed to increase website visibility in the search engines leads to getting found more often, on more keyword phrases every day which means consistent free targeted traffic.  Wouldn’t it be nice if your business website actually started contributing considerably more sales revenue towards the top line?  Wouldn’t you like to see more daily traffic and sales come in versus your website basically being invisible in the search engine rankings except for being found for your business name keyword only which is a common problem, or just as bad only getting found on words or terms that don’t deliver sales.  It’s your responsibility to see that your web assets perform.  A highly-productive website can ensure the long-term viability of your business and can be transformed into your most valuable financial asset.

Take the Right Steps Now – Or Your Website Gets Left In The Dust!

One fact is indisputable, as time goes on it becomes more and more difficult and expensive to surpass your online competitors regardless of what business you’re involved in.  Now is the time to start getting your website improvement project and online marketing plan nailed down and on the right path towards success, before playing catch-up becomes cost-prohibitive.  It mostly comes down to getting the right business intelligence information, deploying capital to resolve shortcomings, working with the right team of experts, and making the right choices and decisions based upon the highest priority at that stage in the website upgrade process.


Below is a list of some common issues and topics that business owners should consider when they’re troubleshooting poor website performance or sub-par results from their web assets.  The solutions to these business website problems can be resolved with the variety of professional services offered by search engine optimization experts, or SEO’s.

    • Look into failure to ask the right questions and always demand the right answers regarding ‘what to do next’ ‘why things aren’t working’ ‘asking if you have realistic expectations’ ‘what are the risks if I procrastinate longer’ ‘what am I missing?’ etc.
    • Failure to understand your website’s current strengths (exploit opportunities) and weaknesses (eliminate obstacles).  Point:  You need a Website SEO Audit!
    • Accepting advice from people that aren’t proven experts (but claim to be) while continuing to pour money into the wrong types of services.  Point:  Sorry, your webmaster is not an expert in website marketing in a high-competition environment, and in getting organic search engine traffic to your website.  Only SEO expertise can get you to the top of the natural search results pages.
    • Not assembling the right team of expertise:  Webmaster, Web developer, SEO, Copy Writing team, Web hosting company, even your website publishing platform.  You need a cast of high-performing team members that are holding up their end of the bargain and work together – no excuses!
    • Not understanding the full benefits provided by Search Engine Optimization and understanding how SEO Services & Consulting can lead to a better performing website in many different ways, and reduce marketing costs.
    • Not developing a content marketing, internet marketing, and content expansion plan:  identifying the steps, components, elements & phases short-term and long-term
    • An unwillingness to accept change, make needed tough decisions, and move forward like changing the content message to integrate search engine keyword phrases (eg. not accepting the change process of SEO).
    • Shortcomings in making prudent investments at the right time in the web asset investment cycle.  At some point you’ll need considerable link building investment (and it may not end) if you expect to reach top rankings on high-volume keywords.  The #1 organic search position in Google receives over 40% of the clicks so it’s well worth the trouble to achieve!
    • Not including Social Media Marketing or Social Media Optimization into the marketing plan
    • Publishing weak content that’s not interesting or compelling to read, or not publishing fresh content to attract search engines.  Along with this issue goes not publishing enough volume of content to catch up to your top online competitors’ Google indexed web page count.
    • Failure to have a clear call-to-action for website visitors to act upon when visiting your site
    • Choosing a market niche that is too competitive, or business that’s not commercially viable
    • Failure to assess and evaluate the online competition using marketing intelligence
    • Problems with website architecture, site layout issues, site navigation issues, coding problems or broken links etc.
    • Not having a professional visual look and feel, or website design that sufficiently impresses website visitors, or just as bad having excessive images on the home page with sparse written textual content.
    • Lack of working with data, statistics, and benchmarks in making business decisions along with failing to measure progress.
    • Targeting the wrong keyword phrases or wrong content which can basically mean you’re working on the wrong goals or wrong areas in trying to achieve desired objectives.
    • Not enough attention spent on the priorities:  like getting a front page listing in Google, or not building in website security features.
    • Shortfall in investing in your inbound link network.  Our Third Tier Link Building Program is an excellent place to begin your link building investment.
    • Trying to make repairs or patches, when an entire website rebuild, redesign, or makeover would be a much better solution and more cost effective.

If your site isn’t performing well in the search engines you should consider using our Colorado SEO Services and Colorado Website Developer services such as the Online Competitive Intelligence Report Services which could be one of the executive decisions that really pays off!

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