Picking the right domain name for your website is an important
tool to help your website to be found on the Internet by search
engines. Try to pick a name that stands out from the rest of your
competitors. A more unique name will help you to be found quicker.
If possible, it is helpful if keywords of your topic or industry
can be used in the domain name itself, actually incorporated into
the title.
If
you already have a company name and the domain you want is already
registered by someone else, you can try registering something like:
shopmywebsite.com or mywebsiteonline.com,
my-website.com, etc. Try to stay true to your name,
while being creative at the same time. Try to avoid dashes and dots
if possible, and if you are a company, try to stay with a ".com",
with ".net" being the second choice. These two selections
are the most familiar to the mainstream public. If you are a government,
organization, or educational entity its a bit easier because it
is already set up for you; ".gov", ".org", ".edu.".
Web
Host
Getting
the right host for your website is very important for your website
to function properly. A reputable company does not have to be expensive
or very big to be reliable. It is also important to remember that
some of the very large, very cheap hosts, have terrible technical
help. If something is not functioning properly on your site and
the problem is on their end, or your website goes down, be ready
to wait a very long time to talk to a human being, and
when you finally get someone to help, you cross your fingers that
they can find a resolution and not have to pass you on to someone
else to wait for! We prefer to work with smaller host companies
that have a personal interest in their customers. The quality of
technical services improves greatly with companies that value your
business! It is far better to spend a few extra dollars a month
and receive knowledgeable and reliable service. Click
here to see information on our web hosting services.
Informative
and Interesting Content
The
more
informative content on your website the better! This information
helps your website's ranking in search engines, especially if you
have keywords for your topic throughout the content. Lets say you
are a travel agent and decide to add more informative content about
honeymoons, vacations, and cruises to your website, so you can catch
visitors that are using
the keywords; honeymoons, cruises,
vacations, getaways, etc. If you have different pages with content
covering these topics and using the same keywords multiple times
throughout the text, you increase your changes in showing up in
search engines more often when visitors use these words for their
searches.
Having more informative content also keeps visitors coming back
for more information that can help them, especially if the content
changes periodically. They will bookmark your site for easy access
and will tell others about your site being a great resource. The
word spreads and the next thing you know you are getting regular
hits on your website! Too busy to write you website's content. We
can help! View our website content
services.
You
may write the resource content yourself or enlist other writers.
If you do not have the time or are not a very talented writer, you
may contact people that have written articles on other websites
and ask them to use their material, while giving them credit and
having their contact information available. It is a win/win situation.
You have more content and they get more exposure!
Attractive
Graphics and Photographs
The
photographs and graphics you provide your web designer with are
imperative for an attractive and appealing website! If you cannot
take good pictures, hire someone to do it for you. Having bad pictures
on your website really brings the web design down quite a few notches.
Having your original files of your logo also helps a great deal.
Using copies of the original can really affect the quality of the
end result on your website.
Don't
have many pictures or you haven't had a logo created yet? Not a
problem, we can take the pictures you want and create a company
and/or organizational logo if needed.
Most
Important!
A
Reliable and Knowledgeable Web Designer!
We receive MANY clients that come to us
after they tried to get their nephew, friend, or a very cheap web
designer to create their website, leaving them frustrated with long
waits, poor quality, and unreliability . It will end up costing
you more money in the long run having to switch web designers mid
stream, or having a more qualified web designer "pick up the
pieces" from the first one. This is especially true if you
are relying on your website to help increase revenue.
Pick
the right web design firm from the very start! Check our references
with any of our clients on our portfolio and they will be happy
to let you know how creative, quick, reliable, and easy to work
with we are.
Our prices are very competitive. Contact us for a free consultation
and quote anytime!
