Web Development and Design
Most small business owners or new business startups may find it overwhelming to find a web design company on the Internet, because of the vast amount of choices. You may determine that a local web design and development company is right for you, or you may search the Internet and decide on a distant source.
The long-distance phone calls to find a few advantages that a distant web designer can provide may be more than worth it. Perhaps you may elect to build your own design with one of the currently available software programs costing anywhere from $300-$900. You may find a web hosting company that can produce a site for you based on a template created by someone else. There are many Web site templates available on the Internet for little or no money.
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Influencing Your Web Site Ranking
At the Google FAQ page http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq--crawling--indexing---ranking#pagerank, Google states "... don't bother thinking about [page rank]. [It] is just one of over 200 signals that can affect how your site is crawled, indexed and ranked. PageRank is an easy metric to focus on, but just because it's easy doesn't mean it's useful for you as a site owner. If you're looking for metrics, we'd encourage you to check out Analytics, think about conversion rates, ROI (return on investment), relevancy, or other metrics that actually correlate to meaningful gains for your website or business."
Google page rank will influence your Web page's ranking, but remember that the internet is a tool and the Web site is a means to an end. There are many who would, if they could, eliminate their entire advertising and marketing investments if their products and services could sell themslves, but they cannot, so the campaigns continue. The point is to not become so concerned about whether the Web site is positioned in the top ten Google listings, but on the revenue the Web site helps generate.
The leading search engines like Google begin indexing new Web pages from the Open Directory Project listing (DMOZ) at dmoz.org. Submit your site to Suggest URL at the DMOZ site. Find out more ways to influence your Web site's page rank...
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Social Networking and Business Networking
Social networking is also a form of business networking. Businesses are using their connections to the social networks such as Facebook, Digg, LinkedIn, MySpace and others to link back to their business Web sites, thereby increasing their search engine page rank.
Blog sites are becoming more and more popular, and some businesses include them on their websites while other businesses prefer to write to blogs to create links back to their Web sites. Learn how to use writing techniques to improve Web traffic with social networking...
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Evaluating Web Design
Web design has a particular requirement. Unlike print design, there are many additional variables to consider, such as the visitor's monitor size, and the visitor's browser speed, for example. Your website should have no more than three levels of depth for visitors to find the information they are seeking.
Plenty of good content can be buried among poor color choices and contrasts, such as dark blue type on black background, which is a chore to try to read and will discourage your visitors. Flashy graphics with annoying repetition and questionable choices of musical backgrounds may not be appropriate for the visitors seeking information from your Web site. More important things to consider in your Web design...
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