Web Redesign – Best Practice

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Website Redesign - Best Practices for Web Redesign Website redesign proposal checklists should take careful account of the current status of the existing website. Rather than just rush headlong into the web redesign / rebuild process, an assessment of the good and bad elements of the original site should be made. Include consideration of SEO aspects. All to often, the website makeover results in a dramatic downturn in search engine rankings! Don't underestimate the value of the existing … [Read more...]

CMS + SEO Revisited

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Back in 2007, I published an article entitled “Content Management Systems Equal Business Suicide.” The articles basic premise was at that time, CMS software applications as produced were essentially bereft of even the most primitive SEO features or functions. Building a new website, or converting an existing wwbsite to the existing CMS versions of 2007 was rapid way of consigning those websites to the outer reaches of Google’s supplementary index. Lacking inbuilt SEF-URLs (search … [Read more...]

Small Business SEO – Adv

Small Business Search Engine Optimisation Package - Advanced

Small Business Search Engine Optimisation: Advanced Package Advanced small business search engine optimisation commences with a comprehensive website SEO audit analysis to establish whether the products/services offered match the keywords currently used, along along with a comprehensive keyword review. We run a Search Engine ranking report to assess current ranking status using appropriate key words and phrases. - from $1695 NB: This package is only applicable to medium sized websites with … [Read more...]

File Naming Conventions

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File naming is an element of SEO that most people pay little attention to. Similarly, may don't understand the concepts behind search-engine-friendly URLs (SEF URLs). Yet, its a crucial issue for two key reasons; Search Engine Page Results When a reference to one of your pages shows up within a SERP, there are 3 important cues that can entice a visitor to click the link and visit your site. In order, they are Title, Description and URL - or page file name. Why not give yourself every possible … [Read more...]

Content Management Systems – Business Suicide in 2007

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One of the fastest way to minimise your chances of web business success is to use a Content Management System (CMS). There are a number of open-source CMS products, such as phpWS, Mambo, Plone, Drupal, Geeklog, Siteframe, and phpNuke etc and a plethora of proprietary CMS products espoused by individual web design companies as the answer everything from lack of HTML knowledge to rapid shopping cart deployment etc. Expressing this in simple terms, its said that possibly as high as 80% of … [Read more...]

Best Practice Website Design Criteria

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1.1 Introduction Should you be contemplating a new web site, or the redesign of an older site, there are many issues you need to consider. High in the priority list at the outset should be search engine rankings, and design of the site to maximise the site’s potential web profile is crucial to success. A key design criteria should be to ensure that the web site, as launched, will require minimal remedial search engine optimisation. In the process of site creation there is almost always … [Read more...]

So… what the hell IS Search Engine Optimisation? a brief explanation…

A great many web sites are launched every year, and in some respects it’s a little like building a shop in the middle of a forest e.g. you can’t see the wood for the trees. Web design and search engine optimisation are two quite different disciplines. Most web designers are focused on form - intent of producing a visually attractive site which will gain a cusomers interest and attention long enough to make the sale etc. Few web page designers implement SEO as an integral part of the web … [Read more...]