Search Engine Optimisation

So, you have your amazing new website.  Now what?

You want people to find you.  There are millions and millions of websites on the internet, so how will people find yours?  Most likely, it will be via a search engine such as Google, Microsoft Live or Yahoo.

The easy part is getting your website listed with these search engines (if another site links to yours, they will find you eventually anyway).  The hard part is making sure your website is as near to the top of that list as possible.

You might find many companies on the internet making bold claims such as 'we guarantee you will be number one'.  Anyone claiming they can do this are using the site owners lack of knowledge against them.

One common trick is to give you some search words that the general user would never use.  Your site may very well be at the top of the list in that case (and they will make sure the search terms they give you will put you at the top), but this is practically useless in the real world.  You have to think like a user.

Another trick some companies use is to re-arrange your page text to move certain keywords closer to the top.  This is all very good until your page text no longer makes any sense, or repeats so often it looks like you are rambling!

Unlike many other web designers, we will design the website and advise you from the beginning on the basics of SEO, enabling you to get a head start on your competition.