I know little about the technical side of seo. I know marketing and ad writing much better. But the designer making my site also offers seo services. Once the site is finished should I pay him to do his seo services? Or just only have the site made and market it myself?
Hi From my personal experience I would recomend one of two things: 1. If you have the time research and do it yourself (you will get some good education which can be used on any other projects your working on). 2. If you dont have time, get some one to do it for you. However, designers will generally just be designers and will try and farm out the seo side of things. There are a number of websites that offer seo, but as there are so many people in the market, shop around a bit. I hope this helps
Hi From my personal experience I would recommend one of two things: 1. If you have the time research and do it yourself (you will get some good education which can be used on any other projects your working on). 2. If you dont have time, get some one to do it for you. However, designers will generally just be designers and will try and farm out the seo side of things. There are a number of websites that offer seo, but as there are so many people in the market, shop around a bit. I hope this helps
The biggest part of SEO is simply doing things right -- proper use of H1 tags, good titles, good internal linking, etc. A good designer will do all of that by default.
If the designer is using css and xhtml to build your site you are already half way there to good on-site SEO.
Mickmel is right. A sign of a good developer is proper semantic markup, the ability for page specific meta data, etc. You should get the site somewhat ready to roll out of the gate(in terms of on page stuff). There of course will be some tweaking to do usually but the framework to provide proper seo should be in place. If not, I would hire another seo individual or firm to handle that aspect of the development process. hope that helps, Nigel
I'd say it depends a lot on the designer. Mickmel is right, of course. Good basic design should include lots of key elements that will help SEO efforts. But in practice..... well, to be polite let's just say that in practice you can lose a lot of value without ever knowing it if your designer is not well versed in SEO. Most aren't. My daughter went to a web design class and sat in on a video on web design. She described it as leaving out all references to SEO until the very end, when the narrator added it as a bit of an afterthought. 'After you're all done with the site design, you should add some SEO to it'.....kinda like it was a 'Magic SEO Aerosol Spray' that you spray all over your website before handing it to the client. Real, effective SEO is built in as one of the foundations of how and why the site and the pages are built. It's not 'added later'. It starts with your domain name, your target market, keywords, tags, and influences even your artwork. It's not in any kind of conflict with good design, though. In fact, SEO might make an ugly page rise to the top of SERP's but if it's not well designed, no one will spend much time on it. So, if you're lucky enough to have a designer who really understands and uses good SEO tactics, (not the majority situation), you may be fine. If not, you could be leaving a LOT of money on the table. If so, you'll never know.
Thanks for the advice the designer has good looking sites and the beggining of the site looks good so far so is there any specific questions to ask when getting him do the seo process?
if get good service better pay. Marketing and promotion u doing, there is no relation on it for design and marketing