| There are a lot of web designers out there, and a lot | | | | Yahoo and Bing. |
| of firms advertising the "best web design" available. | | | | The two go hand in hand. We are redefining good |
| We are of the school of thought that an effective | | | | web design to be SEO Web Design. |
| web design is one that brings traffic to your website | | | | The old school way of doing things was to create a |
| and revenue to your business. For that reason, you | | | | website and then go hire a separate SEO expert to |
| won't see us recommending Flash, you won't see us | | | | optimize it, oftentimes completely changing what the |
| recommending HTML templates, and you won't see | | | | designer did because it was actually harmful for your |
| us recommending a design without SEO. | | | | search engine rankings. We value your money more |
| For a web design to be effective, you must have | | | | than that; it makes more business sense to get it |
| SEO. A thumbnail explanation of SEO is that the site | | | | right from the start and create a website that has |
| speaks to the search engines in their language. It is | | | | good SEO built into it. |
| optimized for the search engines. Why is that so | | | | SEO used to be a very expensive proposition, and it |
| crucial? Because the number of pages on the | | | | still is. Many firms will charge thousands of dollars for |
| Internet is increasing at an exponential rate, and the | | | | an SEO website. For a very limited time, one web |
| competition for page 1 in Google, Yahoo or Bing will | | | | firm is offering completely optimized, professionally |
| grow in intensity. It will be more & more difficult | | | | designed websites with SEO and webhosting for a |
| to rank on page one. In the more competitive niches, | | | | fraction of that. With most business websites costing |
| it is already impossible to rank on page one without | | | | thousands of dollars, without even approaching good |
| good SEO; that will become the case for every niche | | | | SEO, it's something worth checking out. |
| in the very near future. | | | | Regardless of who builds and maintains your site, |
| Good SEO can mean many different things; in terms | | | | insist on an optimized website that is search engine |
| of SEO web design, "good SEO" means on-page | | | | friendly. It does your business no good at all to |
| factors. Yes, you will also need to market your site | | | | create a web presence that is going to appear on |
| to insure top placement in the search engines; on-age | | | | page 600 of Google. Ninety-eight percent of web |
| SEO factors are not enough in most cases (unless | | | | search ends on page one, so your intended |
| you are in an extremely tiny, non-competitive niche | | | | destination should be clear -- if you hope to reach |
| or hyper-niche) to insure top placement in Google, | | | | your intended customers and clients. |