Web Design – Is Your Content Relevant?

Anybody remotely familiar with the concept of search engine optimisation will have heard of terms such as “keyword density” – the method by which you calculate the effectiveness of copy in your web design in order to help give you a boost in search engine rankings based on how many times your text contains a certain word or phrase.

Many SEO practitioners still to this day will maintain that this is one of the ways in which your site can get an SEO boost. Well, they’re wrong. If, for example, you run a web design company and you decide that using the phrase “web design” 20 times inside your opening paragraph is the way to go then you’re going to fail on two counts: the search engine crawlers won’t take the blindest bit of notice and visitors to your site are going to be turned off by the …

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Questions You Would Be Crazy Not to Ask Your Website Designer

If you are a business looking to go online and put your first business website in place then there are a wide range of prices and options out there and to be honest it is very confusing and there is a wide range of prices often for the same thing. However here are some questions that you should ask when you do contact a website design company to understand the basis of the costing.

Does the Price Include Hosting and Domain Name Registration

Make sure that there are no hidden costs for domain registration and for hosting. If the cost includes domain name registration ask that this price be for a 5 year registration and not for a one year one so you wont be hit with a renewal fee the following year. Also ask how much the exact hosting fee and where it will be hosted. Many …

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