Whether
we are starting from scratch on a new Web design or working on an
existing web site created by another company, your web site must be
search engine friendly.
Keeping a web site at or near the top of
search results has become a science. The best search engines frequently
modify the way their databases list web sites, and we work
systematically to stay aware of these changes and use the latest
techniques for promoting a web site on the Internet.
Search
engines use data-collecting programs which send "robots" or "spiders"
to your server to look for HTML files from which it may collect data.
Your HTML files are located in sub directories within the server. It is
imperative that the files on your Web server are structured in a way
which aids the robots in their quest for content.
We will show you how this works. In some cases we may have to recommend that you switch to a different web hosting company.
If
you have a web site which uses .asp programming or some other type of
programming which creates "dynamic" pages rather than using static HTML
files, then these robots may not be able to collect most of the data
for their search engines, unless your web design is created to be
"search engine friendly", but not to worry, we can help you with your
web design and code issues.
Here
are some of the things we do to ensure you have "search engine
friendly" pages: we begin placing proper metatags and header elements
within the very first part of the HTML code [this is called the "head"]
of your web site. Java scripts should be placed at the bottom of the
HTML page so that it doesn't slow down the robot when it's trying to
collect data that coincides with keywords in your meta tags. These
robots only have a limited amount of time to collect data, so we want
to make sure your page is structured in a way that it will feed as much
keyword rich content as possible in a few seconds.
You may
wonder why we are giving away so many secrets. We do so only because it
just the beginning of what we do and it's very important that you
understand all that is involved when it comes to gaining favorable
placement on the search engines with your keywords. The fact is, that
what we are describing here is only a fraction of all that we do to
when trying to achieve and maintain placement at the top of lists of
search results for our clients.
When you look at a web page you
may think that there are only a few pages that make up the site. But if
you are going to be successful you will need to have many pages with
different HTML elements that meet the unique specifications of each
search engine that you want to target. In addition to creating a unique
page for each individual search engine, we also create unique pages
that target each keyword or keyword phrase for the particular search
engine.
Remember, having a nice web design is just the
beginning, then you need to take the next step and make sure your web
site is designed to do well on important searches. Therefor, ongoing
analysis must begin. This provides us with insight into trends which
help to keep us on top of the ever changing world of the search
engines. It is also absolutely vital to stay informed in order to
maintain rankings, or sites can quickly fall without regular updates
and submissions.
We provide detailed reports to our clients on a
monthly basis. These reports show where the site is currently ranked on
each of the major search engines that we target. This lets us know
which pages and keywords are doing well and which need work.
We
also do competitive analysis to check how a particular site is
performing compared to a client's competitor. We use different
strategies to give our client a competitive advantage with a very
aggressive approach.