Why Does Your Business Need a Website?

A website is like a businesses online “store front”.  It is important for consumers to be able to visit a place on the internet to read about what your business has to offer. A simple website helps customers find you, and what you are about.

The simplest possible Web presence is a website that tells people how to find your business in the "real" world. It should include a good Web Address that relates to your company name and business.  Your business address, complete with directions and a good map.   Your business phone number, along with fax numbers if relevant.   A clear and enticing description of what your business offers to customers.  Now of days, this is what a business needs to have in order to stay in the race of the ever-evolving business world.

METRO MEDIA CONSULTING GROUP LLC offers basic website design, and maintenance.  We are ready to help get you started, and we will maintain your website for you.  This service allows you to focus on the daily operations of your business without having to worry about updating your website.

What is a "HIT" to a website?

Have you ever see the claim, "We get 80,000 hits a month" on a web site? Or the scrolling counter at the bottom of a page? What does it all mean and is it accurate? What is the difference between a hit and a visitor?


A "hit" is not a visitor to the web site, but a hit on the web server. A hit on the web server can be a graphic, java applet, the html file, etc. So, if a site has 79 small graphics on the page, every visitor to the site registers as 80 hits on the server (79 graphics plus the html file). In this case, 80,000 hits translates to just 1,000 visitors.
As webmasters, designers, business owners, SEOs, etc., we are not concerned with hits to a site. We want to know the number of visitors to our site. And we don't just want to know about every visitor--we want to know about every unique visitor. So if we can't count hits, can we use a counter?

The problem with using counters to track our visitors is they are set up to measure page views, not unique visitors. Everytime someone views your page, whether it's the first time or the twentieth, that visitor is counted. And if the page times out for some reason and they "Reload," it counts them again. And if someone just wants to have fun with your counter, they can exit and enter the site several times and are counted as a visitor each time, even if they never look at a product.