You’ve spent many hours perfecting your website, adding call to actions, beautiful photography, branding to attract your ideal clients, and you’re ready to launch right?! Hold up! Not so fast.

There are a few housekeeping tasks you need to do before you hit that launch button…

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6 Things to do Before Launching Your New Website

1. Check for broken links
   The last thing you want is someone trying to contact you as a potential client or customer and the link doesn’t work. Don’t worry though, there is an easy way to check all your links on your website. You can use a free broken link checker that will go through and check all your links to let you know which ones are broken.
   
2. Link your Google Analytics
   Linking your website to Google Analytics will give you tons of info and stats on who is visiting your website, which pages are getting the most views, where your traffic is coming from, and so much more. It’s a great way to analyze your website and cater to your clients and customers.
   
3. Add a lead magnet opt-in to your email sign-up form
   It’s so important to start an email list and start it right away. You never know if your social media accounts will disappear, especially since you don’t know the accounts. With an email list, you’ll always have that which you own. Having a freebie for your ideal client that would interest them is a great way to get them to sign up for your email list. I use Flodesk for setting up my opt-in forms which I highlight suggest. It’s user-friendly and they have tons of email templates available. Get 50% off your Flodesk subscription.
   
4. Test your contact and sign-up forms
   Always make sure to test your contact and sign-up forms with your own so you know they work!
   
5. Add SEO titles and descriptions to all pages
   To make sure your website gets seen and comes up in search engine results, you need to make sure your photos and actual pages have SEO titles and descriptions. The better you optimize your website, the more traffic your website could receive.
   
6. Don’t forget your legal pages
   Do you have all your legal pages set up? This is a must before you launch your website. It can be easily overlooked, so this is your friendly reminder.

Did you go through all 6 tasks? If you did, you can now hit LAUNCH on your website! Yay!!

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