Oklahoma Web Design Company iLab New Media » search engine friendly http://www.ilabmedia.com/articles The secret to building a successful website. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:39:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Is your web designer right for you? http://www.ilabmedia.com/articles/2008/01/30/is-your-web-designer-right-for-you/ http://www.ilabmedia.com/articles/2008/01/30/is-your-web-designer-right-for-you/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:23:29 +0000 Andy Ward http://www.liquidcalifornia.com/2008/01/30/is-your-web-designer-right-for-you/ Take this simple quiz.
  • Is your web designer offering you a custom design?Some web designers charge you like you’re getting a custom web design, then give you a template. There is a huge difference in price, if you are getting a template design the price should reflect that.
  • Does your web designer create web standards compliant code?Designing your website to meet current web standards ensures that your site not only looks good on current web browsers, but will most likely continue to look great on future web browsers too.

  • Will your web designer’s code be search engine friendly?Not the same as search engine optimization, but in some ways more important. Search engine friendly code means your website is built in such a way that search engines are able to easily index your site and can determine what it’s about.
  • Will your web designer stand behind the website for the long term?Like any piece of software, many problems with a website may not crop up until after you take delivery. Will your web designer continue to provide support for any code they wrote? For how long afterwards?

We would be happy to talk with you about these or any other web design related questions, free of charge. We never charge for consultations or just friendly conversation about our industry and what you should expect.

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The problem is that business persons who pay to have a website developed often don’t know how to judge their website’s performance initially beyond its looks. In the long term they will notice if it is not getting new business but even then they are often not sure what specifically is wrong or how to fix it.

If your website is sputtering we recommend a 10 point website inspections of all moving parts. Here’s the rundown of what’s involved.

You should check:

  1. HTML code formatting
  2. Download time
  3. Image optimization
  4. Browser compatibility
  5. Search engine optimization
  6. Keyword density
  7. Keyword popularity
  8. Inbound links
  9. Outbound links
  10. Google PageRank

With those 10 critical points tuned up your site will be purring like a kitten and ready to tear up the road.

Liquid Design can run your website up on the lift, check it out, and provide you our honest appraisal of what it needs free of charge. You will also get a written report of the results of our tests to keep and bring to your own web guy if you want. No obligation and no hard-sell.

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