My Philosophy behind Website Design.

Search Engine Friendly Websites.

My job as the web designer is to give your site the best possible chance of a high "natural" ranking in search engines like Google and Yahoo!. A natural ranking is a ranking that isn't inflated by paid advertising campaigns, like Google AdWords, and sponsored links. These are of course very effective at driving traffic to your site in the early days, or for specific periods like new product launches.

A high natural ranking is the holy grail of website design. Many internet surfers ignore sponsored links, favouring those that appear in the natural search results, believing them (often rightly) to be more relevant to their search. Also, a listing in the natural results doesn't cost you money like sponsored links do.

Clean, standards compliant code not only helps your website's visitors, but Search Engines too. Search Engine Robots find standards compliant code easier to index, and better indexing is more likely to result in a better ranking of your site in their search results.

I'll talk to you about some of the basics of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) during the development process. Unlike many other web designers and companies out there I include this as standard in my websites, rather than as an optional extra. What's the point of a website that can't be found?

If you already have a website and you are not achieving the rankings you think you deserve then get in contact with me. I'll be happy to have an initial look at your site for free, to see if there is any immediate problems. After my initial assessment I will quote you for any work I think you need to get done.