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
Hosting
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 Website 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.
Online
Marketing Plan
Having
a marketing plan is an absolute must to get the most out of your
website! Don't know how to this? That is where we come in! We can
help you market your site to the valuable target audience you are
aiming for. We have a market plan for ANY budget.
If you have budget constraints, the marketing will just take time
on your part. There are MILLIONS of websites out there - all competing
for the first page on that search! Contact
us and we will show you how we can help.
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.