Web Design News

Late Thursday afternoon Toni and I were getting ready to shut up shop for the Easter weekend. We were sitting here planning the stuff that we had to pack in the car to take on the trip to visit our grandkids in the next state when the phone rang.

It was one half of a husband and wife team who are employing us to do a little development and search engine optimisation on their website and the work was to start this week so I presumed the call was about the work we were to do … but it wasn’t.

Instead the call was about a minor change I had suggested that they make to their website before we even touched it. The change really was very minor … just the addition of three words but it had produced what the client considered was an amazing result. This couple had been trying to get their website up to the first page of Google for a term that was very important to them for months and they had not succeeded.

So they had come to us and that minor addition of just three words had lifted them right up to position five on the first page. The client was ecstatic and that’s what we aim for … clients who can see real value in the work that we do for them. It was definitely a great start to the Easter weekend for us.

It really doesn’t matter where you’re business is situated; if your website needs some search engine optimisation to get it onto page one of Google then call or email us to see if we can achieve the results you want. We can’t guarantee that just three words is all it’s going to take to get your website onto the first page of Google but we will give you an honest appraisal of what will need to be done.

Apart from web design, web hosting and copywriting we also do quite a bit of search engine optimisation work for our own clients both here in Hervey Bay and around the world. We also do quite a bit of SEO on a sub-contract basis for other web support businesses and it seems that our work is just as effective for them as it is for our own clients.

A little over two weeks ago we did some work for one of those web support businesses where we had to target 21 different keyword phrases. Yesterday they wrote to us about the work we had done for them.

Here are some rankings for xxxx. We already have some nice results. I am quite pleased with these fast results and rankings. It usually takes longer than this to see these kind of results.

It seems that in a highly competitive area we had achieved:

•  12 listings on the first page of the search engine results pages for those terms
•  7 listings on the second page
•  1 listing on the third page
•  1 listing on the fourth page

Of course we would like to see all of them on page one of the search engine results pages but 12 out of the 21 isn’t bad for some pages of a site that have only been live for two weeks.

If you need some quality search engine optimisation work done on your site then you know where to come

Orders for more work from established clients are always great to see. It tells us that our websites are definitely hitting the mark as far as the clients are concerned and that means we’re keeping our clients happy.

Hervey Bay Jet Ski was originally developed towards the end of last year and last week Daniel and Rosie came back to us to have some new 2008 jet ski models and quite a few new pages added too.

As any business grows so their website should grow too and to think of a website as being something that’s static can be a mistake. New products and new services  should all added into a webiste as they become available and that’s what we’ll be doing over the common months for Hervey Bay Jet Ski.