Small business website checklist

Check these before spending anything on design or advertising. A site missing several of them will convert badly no matter how much traffic it gets.

The two that get skipped

Pricing and the dated content. Ducking pricing feels safer and quietly filters out everyone who needed a rough idea before making contact. Old dates are worse than they look: a page last updated three years ago suggests a business that may not still be trading, which costs more than the page ever earned.

The checklist