Web Designers You Should Avoid…
Monday, May 25th, 2009… no matter how cheap they may seem.
Over the last few weeks we’ve had a number of enquiries from local businesses who have been dissatisfied with the work done on their websites by other local designers.
These people have spent anywhere from $1500 to $5000 dollars on sites that have turned out to be absolute failures. They neither rank well in the search engines or make sales or generate leads and the sites owners come to us in the hope that we can work some miracle without costing them any more money.
Sadly we can’t because our time is just as valuable as any other small business and all too often the site designs are so bad that they need to be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Even if the design can be recycled the cost of re-writing the text on the site is often more than the site owner can afford.
So if you’re about to pay a web designer to build a website for your business you’ll find 85 Reasons Why Website Designers/Developers Keep SEOs in Business in invaluable read for it will give you some guidelines that will help you to avoid wasting money on a clueless web designer.
Some of the reasons given in the article:
3. They develop navigational menus that are invisible to search engines
5. They ask the client to provide them with website copy (it’s the designer who should develop the text based on the concepts that you give them).
6. They have the client provide them with what pages they want on their website.
10. They think that SEO is submitting (the site) to search engines.
12. They put the same title on every page of the website.
18. They find it easier to use paid search.
I could go on with more but then I’d be breaching the fair-use rules of copyright so just let me encourage you to follow the link and read those 85 points. Unfortunately we’ve come across every one of them in the last few weeks.
