Good web site questions deserve good answers

How does a web site answer questions? Can you find good answers on a web site?

How to ask good questions? What is an SEO website and what is the big deal about SEO?

An seo or search engine optimized website is simply a good website, that has been correctly written to present very specific information about a specific subject, to a specific user group. In a perfect world, every website published on the World Wide Web or WWW, would provide good information and be accurately written, to allow search engines to provide their users with the best search results for a specific user enquiry or search phrase. Visitors will often return to a web site that answers questions.

How to find good answers on a good web site

Unfortunately, most business websites are written by graphic artists, posing as professional website designers. This has created a lot of confusion about what a good website really is. Good seo simply means fixing or avoiding, all the website design mistakes. A real SEO website provides good business information and becomes a profitable business website for years to come. SEO is only important, if you actually need your website to find new customers.

Designing an SEO business web site seems expensive, why?

A real search engine optimized, business website is guaranteed to produce profitable results. A completely custom built website takes time to produce. Anyone can design, build and publish a website. If your website isn't designed to attract new customers, you probably don't need a company website! A common misconception about small business websites: Publishing a new company website will automatically generate thousands of new customers! For the proof of this, see the search results for good website questions (by pressing the link). There are millions of search results web pages returned for you to choose from. If your pages were about answering questions about Designing good web sites and ranked 200 out of all those page titles, how many visitors do you think would check 20 pages of search results, just to find your website? The obvious answer is, none! If your page is listed on the first page of the search results, you'll get visitors. In the real world, some visitors may find you on page (3) of the search results. Rank below page (3) and you don't really exist. If you actually want a cheap website designed, we'll even help you find a cheap website designer! We custom build every web page for optimum performance, proper markup validation and customer focused information. We only design and build, real business websites.

How many individual web pages does my web site need?

How many unique products (different brands or models) or specific services does your company provide? You need at least one page for each of them. How many different locations do you have or provide services to? You probably need a page for each of them too. Your Website Terms of Use page could include a Privacy Policy Statement, Accessibility Policy Statement and Service Policy Statement (if they are simple). The more topic focused each web page on your site, the higher your SERP's ranking will be. A Good web site design is always scalable (expandable) as your business information and focus changes. Starting with 10 to 20 pages, is probably the minimum required for a credible business web site. Although some business websites contain only 3 or 4 pages, many contain more than 100. Your marketing budget, customer demographics and expected return on investment will determine how many pages you actually need. Page titles become the search phrases your customers find on search engines results pages. Good page titles are a critical web page component.

from the SEO Websites Team

Each web page presents a new storefront to the world. The more storefronts, the more opportunities for customers and search engines to find you. How many full-time sales people could you hire to work 24/7/365 for a one time payment of $300 to $500? That's what each good web page does for your business web site's credibility!

How long does it take to design/build an SEO business site?

The number of pages, page size, technical complexity, accessibility features and the competitive environment of your website, each affect the total hours required to complete an SEO website. As an example, our original (50) pages required more than 400 hours, over 4 months to write, edit and publish. We try to spend 2-5 hours/week adding and improving the content quality of our website. Each SEO website design is unique, so we always provide a detailed services quote before accepting a new project. Once published, we track and edit, your new business website for at least (6) months. A real company website takes time to design and build. A high quality website, is always a work-in-progress. Current information is important to all your visitors.

What is the best web site design for our type of Business?

The best website design is, the one that impresses all of your web site's visitors!

How important is a good site map?

Having a good site map allows your visitors to easily find all your site's important information pages. Without a good site map, many of your visitors will get lost and simply leave! The link to your site map should be very obvious and easy to find. Some users rely on your site map to navigate around your site. Search engines can index all of your pages with a good site map. The access key to our site map is alt+s.

Are links important to a good website?

Every web site on the web needs to have at least one incoming link from another site, to be part of the World Wide Web. Understanding this, should explain why having many links to and from other sites is so important. Although there are several types of links, text links are the most valuable to search engines.

Are meta tags important?

Meta tags are important to browsers, far more than search engines. One of the many myths about SEO is that SEO involves meta tag manipulation. Not anymore. Most search engines ignore most meta tags. However, browsers use meta data to help them display your pages quickly and correctly. Use meta tags properly, or avoid using them to try to influence search engines. Good meta tag use helps to create a user friendly website.

How important are page titles?

Good page titles are the single most important element of a good web page. Since the page title appears on search engine results pages, it's importance is obvious. Most search engines place a great deal of weight on the page title to determine the relative value of a page's information. Page tiles must reflect the information on each web page. The best page tile is the search phrase your customer types into any search engine's input box and finds your site!

How often does our website need to be updated?

The short answer is, update often. Every time your business changes or expands, update your web site to reflect those changes. Your web site is simply an extension of your real world business activities. When your business changes, update your web site information. Your customers and search engines, expect to read up to date, current information.

Can we maintain our website ourselves?

Of course, we will show you how to edit your information pages. If you want to have professional assistance, we can set up an annual (hourly fee) maintenance contract. During the term of our services guarantee, we do reserve the right to edit any changes you wish to make for content quality and to maintain good design practices. Even small coding errors can cause ranking problems.

Is having a valid website important? Why?

Proper or valid, html markup allows every web browser to display your web pages correctly. Although most web pages published on the world wide web ignore validation in favor of presentation effects, they risk annoying some visitors. Future search engine algorithms will hopefully increase the value they place on proper markup use. When (not if) they do, many currently top-rated web sites will disappear from their search results pages. A valid website ensures longevity at the top of search engine listings. If a web designer can't write properly validated web pages, how professional are they? Writing valid websites, requires more skill and knowledge than most website designers seem to have. This web page is valid xhtml 1.0 Strict.

What is the real purpose of designing an SEO Website?

In a word, " credibility." In a second word, "profitability". A website is not simply electronic advertising. It is a 24/7/365 promoter of your existing business. Even if your website does not include an e-business component, it can still generate many new customers that wouldn't have found you without a well designed, search engine optimized website. Search engines have replaced the traditional "Phone Book" as the preferred source of Where can I find business information?

Who is my website's target audience?

With billions of web pages already available on the World Wide Web, how much new, "general information" can realistically be added? A successful business website focuses information to answer the specific questions posed by their potential customers. You know your customers. You probably know the questions they might ask a search engine? Anticipating and then answering those specific questions, will provide credibility to your business website. A real business website is simply an extension of your real world business. Your target audience is every potential, real world customer in your trade area!

What if I want a lot of pictures on my website?

You can have as many pictures as you want! Graphics can convey a lot of information to the people who visit your website. However, balance is very important. A small (100K) graphic file can take 4 seconds to load on a dial-up internet connection. Too many pictures on a webpage can make the file so large that your visitor leaves before the page even loads! Providing good alt text also tells search engines and text only browsers what the picture represents. Optimizing your website's graphics is important. We can crop your graphics, change the file format or re-use the picture on several webpages to increase your page loading efficiency. With website graphics, less is often more.

What about our website "shopping cart" setup?

Before you assume you need one, read the information that helped destroy the dotcom dreams of website owners in the 90's! [ Shopping Carts ] Your small business website could generate tens of thousands of dollars in additional sales per month and never accept an online payment! It's all about your customer's information needs.

How do I choose a good domain name?

The best domain name will describe what you do, where you do it and why. Never assume that the obvious ourcompany.com is either a good, or the only domain name you can use. 90% of your new website visitors should come via a search engine. Have any of them heard of your business name? We chose www.seowebsitesdesigners.com because it not only describes who we are and what we do, it also contains some very important keywords.

Will an SEO website attract "millions" of visitors?

Is your business designed to service millions of new customers? If so, then your business is definitely not a small business! Every business website we design, targets your potential customers. A properly written, business website provides high quality information to a specific user group. Your customer is in a specific user group. We help you target your business information to be found by that group, not everyone in the world!

Will Designing a Real SEO Website provide customer focused marketing

Absolutely. The purpose of good SEO practices is to put your website in front of your potential customer. To do this, our designers learn everything we can about who your customer is, what business information they need from you, how they use the web to find business information sites and when they will use your products or services. Understanding your customer's needs is critical to focusing your web pages' text information to meet them. Then writing a good page title tells visitors what each page is about.

Why don't you provide links to your existing clients?

We do, but only to "pre-qualified" visitors. We guarantee your website's statistical performance. Having curiosity visitors to your website artificially inflates your statistics without providing new customers. When requested, we will provide an email list of relevant websites to your proposed website. We will not even put a link on your website to SEO Website Designers, unless you agree to it in writing. Ethical website designers promote their clients, not themselves!

Will you submit our new SEO website to the major search engines?

Very rarely. If you can't find a supplier, customer, associated company or other good source of link referrals, we will temporarily place a link to your site. Once all the search engine spiders find your site and index it, we remove the link. Only one good inbound link from an established, high ranking website, will get your site indexed. Search engine spiders appear to have egos. They give bonus ranking points to web pages they find, by themselves. Submitting your website to search engines, would cost you those bonus points. Writing good web pages will make the search engines come back to your site frequently. Although this method can often take months to achieve great ranking results, particularly with Google, it's well worth the wait.

Why isn't a business website online advertising?

Your accountant may call your website an advertising expense, even though it's not advertising. Most of our team members have a lot of experience in conventional media advertising. All forms of print or electronic advertising, actively distribute your message for a specific time to all the people who subscribe, watch or listen to the media distributor. You hope your potential customer "happens to see or hear your ad!" The customer is passive, but hopefully takes in your very brief message, absorbs it and remembers it when they want or need your product or service. Catchy slogans help them remember. The complete opposite is true for a company website. Although your website is completely passive, your potential customer is actively searching for specific information and answers when they find you! Search engines provide the link that allows the " question " your potential customer asks, to be answered by your website! Everyone who finds your website, already wants the information your site provides. Unlike advertising, you don't need to keep spending thousands of dollars each month to keep your company in the spotlight. Search engines don't care how much a website costs, they only care about the quality information you provide. It's a level playing field based on skill, not costs. You can provide a lot more valuable answers on your company website, than in hundreds of expensive ads! A company website is a long term investment that will provide benefits for years. Good business information is not a one shot promotion!

Please read: Why is a website a web site?, before you make any business web design decisions.

See also: Design questions about Search Engine Optimization

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