Website Design & Maintenance, Complex Web Programming & The Art of SEO

2009-06-29T06:42:00.001-05:00

Elliott is getting ready to speak at Spelman college in regards to Social Networking.

Web Design In Modesto California - also mispelled as Medesto California

2008-03-10T11:15:00.003-05:00

Well we have learned that Modesto California is a area that is desperate need of good web design and web development team. WebXperts is answering Modesto business call for a reliable web design team. Wether Modesto business owners need web design, web site maintenance, web tool design or custom intranet development - Try WebXperts.com

Atlanta Web Expert

2008-03-09T07:58:00.004-05:00

Well it looks as if the outsourcing scammers are here! We have foreign companies trying to pretend to be the real local atlanta web experts. Do you think that the real Atlanta Web Experts and our SEO gurus are going to allow this to happen or do you think that we are going to a full court press on this keyword Atlanta Web Experts.

It's one thing to be in Atlanta and be a web expert or designer, but its another thing to try and trick companies from Atlanta, Georgia???

But wait what about there 404 and 678 number? Well anyone can get these numbers, even if they aren't from Atlanta, Georgia. But from our investigations we have found out that this three man shop posing to be the real Atlanta Web Experts are nothing more than an outsourcing scam.

SEO Lesson: Always check your primary keywords and act swiftly against those who try and take your keyword positioning.

Search Engine Optimization (Atlanta 30309, Decatur 30030)

2008-03-07T10:31:00.004-05:00

Search Engine Optimization Decatur - We just realized that we are placing high on this keyword.
Search Engine Optimization Atlanta - Not placing www.WebXperts.com or SearchEngineOptimization.WebXinc.com

We will be focusing on this next week.

Things To Consider When Choosing A Web Company

2008-03-07T09:51:00.003-05:00

Factors to consider when hiring a web design company

With today’s technology, more and more companies are utilizing the World Wide Web to promote their businesses. Prior to putting a website on the Internet for individuals to view, the company must first set up the website. This is where web design companies enter the picture. A web design company is hired to construct a website for an individual or company that is suitable to their tastes. There are a few factors to consider prior to settling on a specific web design company to construct your new website.

Examples of Prior Web Designs

 One important factor to consider when choosing a web design company to develop a website is the type of web designs which the company has produced in the past. Many web design companies will make portfolios available for potential clients to view so that they may see the style of the web design company and determine if their finished product is what the client is looking to achieve in the way of a website. This is extremely helpful when trying to determine if the work product of the web design company is up to one’s standards.

Also pay attention to the size of clients they have worked with. Usually a smaller web design company that has done a lot of small business websites will not allow you to grow with your web design team. Making sure you have a web design team that can grow as you grow is very important. Therefore, always ask to see samples of a web design company’s prior work before signing them up to construct a website.

Estimated Completion Time

 Another important factor to consider when selecting a web design company to design one’s website is what their estimated completion time may be. This is beneficial to know up front so the client can expect the finished work at a certain time. Since many individuals are using the Internet for conducting business, it is important that the client get their website up and running as soon as possible. This will also give the web design company notice that the client needs their completed product at a certain point in time and they will be less likely to push it to the side and work on other client’s projects.

Cost of Web Design Project

It is also crucial to know up front how much the completed web design project will cost the client. Since many new businesses are inundated with low cost and free websites, you need to make sure you apply the principle of "You Pay For What You Get!". Even if you are on a tight budget, it is vital to invest as much as you would in your website as you would for a TV ad, billboard, or radio spot. Just realize that your website will last a lo longer than any other form of traditional advertising. Along with the total cost of the web design project, the client should also receive a breakdown of the individual costs of the project.

What Is Included with the Total Web Design Price?

 One who retains a web design company to construct their website should also ask about what items are included in the total web design cost. Some companies will include follow-up consultation in the web design price or web design help in the future. It is important to inquire about these things in the beginning so as to know what type of items they can expect with the amount that they paid for the web design.

References

For those clients who wish to be on the safe side and know exactly who they are dealing with, requesting references is always an available option to the client. Many times the web design company will offer references that will vouch for their professional behavior and wonderful finished product. References are a good way to weed out the bad web designers from the good ones.

Volume of Past Experience

 It may also be beneficial to inquire about the company’s amount of experience. Companies that have been in business for a good many years may just have a bit more experience than newcomers to the web design scene. Although this is just one of the many factors which should be looked at with regard to hiring a web design company, it does help to sway the decision maker one way or the other with regard to hiring or not hiring a specific company to prepare a website for them.

Customer Service 

It is also important to consider the customer service skills of the web design company. One who is paying good money to have their website designed wants to make sure they are dealing with a company that will listen to what they want and make themselves readily available to their clients. If one is considering a particular web design company that has bad customer service skills, it might be more advisable to choose a company that is more client-oriented.

Summary

 There are many different web design companies one can choose from when they want to have a website designed. By considering the factors mentioned above, one can help to ensure that the company that they select to take on this important task does so in a professional, reasonably priced manner. In addition, the client should determine that the web design company has an adequate amount of experience and will produce a product that is exactly what the client is looking for.

Web Programmers Atlanta

2008-03-05T14:28:00.000-05:00

As we’ve said previously, it is hard to get a high organic listing for keywords with geographical prefixes. By using our experience with SEO and our proprietary search engine strategies, we are now achieving a high ranking on Google for the search term web programmers atlanta.

We have also achieved a vertical ranking with Vexcom.

As you can see from the screenshot below, we occupy the #5 spot on the first page:

Local Web Programmer – Outstanding SEO Results

2008-03-05T12:45:00.000-05:00

It is hard to get a high organic listing for a keyword like local web programmer. We have tested countless SEO strategies that have been successful with geographical prefixes like georgia web programmer, or atlanta web programmer, but it is a huge SEO task to get listed without a geographical prefix.

We have had outstanding results with the keyword Local Web Programmer (www.localwebprogrammer.net). Here is a snapshot of the results – As you can see we occupy the #1 and #2 spots on the first page:

Atlanta Web Designer - Positions 2,3, and 9 - SEO Results in one week

2008-02-29T08:31:00.003-05:00

Atlanta Web Designer : Amazing results with reorganizing our content to be more search engine friendly for these very competitive keywords. These SEO results took us less than one week to achieve now we will see how hard it is to maintain it.

The Study of Complex Domain Names - http://www.webcompany-webexperts-flashdesigners.com

2008-02-26T08:49:00.004-05:00

We have been testing complex domain names for over 10 years now and have seen search engine robots modify their algorithms to adjust for domain names becoming the most valuable content.

As we know search engine spiders love relevant content and it seems as if the Google spiders put a tremendous amount of value on the domain name.

The most recent areas that we have been testing are using hyphens versus removing spaces.

The following are keywords is what we are trying to obtain high ranking for:

Web Company
Web Expert
Flash Designers

The domain we are working on is:

http://www.webcompany-webexperts-flashdesigners.com

ATLANTA WEB DESIGN GEORGIA

2008-02-25T11:08:00.003-05:00

http://www.atlanta-web-design-georgia.com/ - WebXperts has created a great new re-directional web site. It has a new look and feel with slightly different content. It was launched in record time, thanks to our great web designers and website developers here at WebXperts.com. And we have to give mention to our excellent web programmer here, who discovered the rapid web development secrets of CSS.

We should have our website farm completed very soon. It has taken our team over six months to complete this web farm and it wasn't easy. We will have over 120 websites by the end of this month.

The Web Experts Teaching The SEO Experts About Content

2008-02-19T08:51:00.002-05:00

The search engine gurus are whining once again as rumor has it Google has another shake-up planned.

And, then of course, they are all still crying foul because Yahoo’s newest indexing strategy appears to be rewarding sites that…God forbid…actually focus on good content. Yes, I know, Yahoo is using the Inktomi search software and they could probably do things a little more sophisticated.

But…

The one thing that I don’t see enough SEO folks talking about is the fact that content rules, it always has, and it does now more than ever. Forget about filters, and algos, and stemming and blah, blah, blah…create good content and everybody wins.
The sites that practiced this strategy did very well in the last Google change and I for one have seen substantial evidence to support this “good content” theory in the revamped Yahoo. Anyone can get a #1 listing in Yahoo by simply creating a page that somebody searching for certain keywords would want to read…now there’s a novel thought.

Most of the whining is coming from the so-called SEO experts who had figured out how to trick the system. Like so many things if it is simple then anyone can figure it out and the then SEO people hiding behind the curtain don’t look so brillant any more.

I went to a seminar last October that featured a so-called SEO expert. The seminar was during what the loosers in the last Google “dance” call Florida. This guy was so freaked out he couldn’t even present any material that was of value to any of the attendees. I won’t name names but this guy is supposed to be tops in the field.

Nobody would buy it but I could create a one page SEO book that would be far more useful than 90% of what is out there. Stick to good content and you will sleep peacefully at night knowing that your search results are safe.

Web Experts - Trying to get WebExperts-WebExperts.com placed for the keyword Web Expert

2008-02-14T07:33:00.003-05:00

It has been a challenge for WebXperts to get placed online for the keyword Web Experts. It started as a problem when the company became incorporated. In Gerogia their was a company called web experts that occupied the name already. We went to the drawing board and came up with WebXperts Design, Incorporated. The corporate name has been in existence for over 10 years. We have serviced a large portion of the corporate community in Atlanta, New York, and San Francisco. We have been lucky to work on some of the more exciting large scale web project on the internet. Why can't our SEO geniuses get WebXperts placed for this ominous keyword...

Well enough ranting. We need to see some results. We have purchased a few dozen domain names and now the web design experts here are working diligently on creating SEO friendly websites. We will document the results as usual.

Here are a few - http://www.webexperts-webexperts.com/ , http://www.webexperts-webxperts.com/ , http://www.hireawebexpert.com/,http://www.webdesignexpert.org/ , http://www.webdesignexpert.biz/, http://www.webexperts.tv/

We have more to come...

How To Get Content On Your Website That Will Help Your Search Engine Placement For Free

2008-02-13T08:12:00.004-05:00

We have been doing a large amount of research on the power of content. One of the things that we have stumbled upon is the ease in getting related content on your page. We have a website that we are experimenting with called Funniest Blog Posts.com.

WebXperts programmed the site to pull search engine listings on several keywords and with the SEO scripting that the web experts worked up this seo script also placed this valuable relative content on the website.

Amazingly enough Google thinks this is actual unique content! Now we have tried some of the pluggin RSS readers out there and some of the widgets that read other websites and places there information on your page. These tactics DO NOT WORK! we have tested them thoroughly and they do not actually place the content on your webpage, they display the content but search engine spiders will not pick this content up.

You have to write custom SEO scripts to get this content to show up when search engine spiders query your website. Call WebXperts at 1-877-932-9778 or visit our website at www.webxinc.com and we will get tour SEO scripts working for you.

Atlanta Web Designer .Net - Yahoo Site Explorer Is Not Worth The Effort

2008-02-11T17:55:00.001-05:00

AtlantaWebDesigner.net is a domain that we have owned for a while. We have Atlanta Web Designers, and have been doing web design for over 20 years, and have tons of satisfied clients. Yet when you search for the keyword Atlanta Webdesigner or Atlanta Web Designer - WebXperts is not on the top three pages.

I have to say our tests with submitting this keyword "atlanta web designers" to yahoo site explorer turned out to be a waste of time. I submitted atlantawebdesigner.net through site explorer and it did nothing for my results on Yahoo. Site explorer by Yahoo is also nothing compared to the tools Google gives web site owners. Just wanted to pass on the research.

Changing Blogger Title - How To Get Better Results With Blogger

2008-02-09T17:30:00.000-05:00

I have read a lot of articles on the frustrating feature of blogger's title. Article after article on changing the blogger title covers one aspect or another but no article on the changing the title tag for a blogger posts covers it all.

Here we go. Follow the steps exactly.

1) Please do not feel you can skip any of these steps in making the title tag dynamic

2) Do not edit any of the files in the blogger window. Copy the source code it presents in the text box into an editor. I tried may times and even though it works with some templates it will not work with others. Maybe it exceeds the length a text box can read, who knows.

3) Open up the the blogger blog you want to modify the title tag for.

4) Navigate to the Template tab in your blogger blog

5) Select the link EDIT HTML. (It's right under the Template tab graphic)

6) Select the Expand Widget Templates checkbox for your blogspot or blogger blog.

7) Click in the text box window and select all of the text.

8) Copy this text into any text editor (PC's - hit start, run, and type notepad MAC's - use Text Edit)

9) Search the Text for Blog2. Lot's of sites dedicated to teaching you how to change the title tag in blogger blog skip this step. I think they forgot the fact that some components already occupy Blog2 and if you find it in your document you need to alter your strategy slightly.

10) If you found Blog2 in your text, check for Blog3 if you don't find it good. If you do find it keep with this pattern until you can not find it.

11) Move to the top of the document ,in your text editor, and locate the title tag (since blogger wont allow you to display it, even in a quote, i had to take a screen shot the area is highlighted in blue)

12) Replace that title tag with the following text.

Important Note: if you have found a Blog2 or Blog3 or BlogX in your document in step 9 make sure you change it. What ever number you found add 1 to it BlogX+1 and replace the section of the code that references Blog2. There should only be one and if you had a Blog2 already you would change:

widget id='Blog2' with widget id='Blog3'

There have been instances where I have seen some weird things happen once you do this I will try to cover some of them.

Bloggger Postings are in my sidebar

Backup everything first.

Check for extra occurances of this code:

widget id="'Blog2'" locked="'false'" title="'Blog" type="'Blog'/">

Delete them. Blogger will ask are you sure just say yes.

I get a error from Blogger when I try to edit the template HTML

You should be able to go back to you template either by hitting back or becuase it has launched this error in another window.

Just revert to your old template - you have not lost any of the content. I tried hard to do so and was unable to.

The Importance Of Being Local

2008-02-08T07:49:00.001-05:00

Our SEO efforts in Decatur are paying dividends. Decatur and Atlanta are cities that our web experts have successfully completed many web design and web development projects. Google rewards those who are local. Just look at the results for the search term decatur web design.

atlanta ga website redesign - WebXperts

2008-02-05T12:38:00.000-05:00

atlanta ga website redesign - We are currently trying to obtain some visibility for this keyword since we have such a large presence in Atlanta, Ga. and since WebXperts has redesigned many corporate websites. We will have to keep you posted on our progress.

Publicly Traded Company Web Design

2008-01-30T19:15:00.000-05:00

Publicly Traded Company Web Design - This keyword is of interest to WebXperts becuase of the large number of corporate and publicly traded companies that we have worked for. Considering the high demands and visibility of publicly traded companies, I think they are a good fit for the efficient way in which WebXperts works.

WebXperts, in its 12 years of operations, has worked for 100 clients. 50 of those clients are publicly traded companies. Half of those companies are Fortune 500. All of advertising has come from word of mouth and most of our clients have worked with us for over 5 years.

We will work on getting higher placement for this keyword. We will keep you posted.

SEO Decatur

2008-01-30T08:56:00.001-05:00

SEO Dectur is a keyword that we have wanted to get a high google listing for. I love it when a strategy pays off. Look at the #1 organic placement of WebXperts.com for the hot keyword Decatur SEO. The great thing about Decatur is that its a big town in both Chicago and Atlanta (Both places we have represented clients in).

Adding Meta Tags To Your Blogger or Blogspot WebSite

2008-01-27T13:05:00.001-05:00

Adding a good article on getting your blogger website to have meta tags. The only problem is that Blogger doesn't allow meta tags on their posts. So I have included a screen shot of how to add meta tags and modify meta and title tags on your blogspot or blogger website. Click the image to make it even more readable -- Enjoy!

Yahoo Results Alarming - #2 for C Sharp Programmer

2008-01-24T14:53:00.000-05:00

Our website csharpprogammers.net has ranked #2 on Yahoo. Check it out here. We never intended high results on Yahoo. As I have discussed it is better to pick one or the other to focus your search engine optimization strategies on but when you get a bonus positive listing on other top search engine like Yahoo or MSN it makes everything worth while.

"C Sharp Programmer" is a highly searched general keyword. Whenever you can get such high placement on a general keyword without a geographical locator (i.e. Atlanta C Sharp Programer) its a feat worth noteing.

Video On Multiple Domains By Web Design Expert

2008-01-22T17:38:00.000-05:00

How Much Does It Cost To Build A Small Business Website?

2008-01-21T10:07:00.001-05:00

"How Much Does It Cost To Build A Good Basic Website That Works?" The key word is a website that works. Each week I get the same question: "How much is it going to cost me to build a small business website?

Certainly, prices are all over the board, but realistically to build something that looks good, presents your company well, converts visitors into leads, and of course places high at Google, MSN, and Yahoo! - isn't going to be $500.

You get what you pay for and your friend who builds websites will cost you more sales than you want to even think about.

Low cost websites often use templates. You may ask why is that a big deal. Unforntunately with the 4 second rule, web visitors will think your template website is a reflection on your work or worst your brand. It can also mean that your competitions website could look a lot like yours, further hurting your companies image.

Even "do-it-yourself" is becoming less effective and I'm getting a lot of calls from those people saying "I used to get a lot of inquiries." It only takes one competitor to build and promote a better website than yours - and you'll see your market-share slip away very quickly. I've seen this happen to 20 year veterans in the industry. It's pretty horrible.

You should always choose a web team or web company. One advantage of choosing a team or web design company is because these companies will have a designers, SEO expert, project managers, and internet marketing specialists all under one roof. It also makes your project's chances of success increase exponentially.

So many of our small business customers come to our company after going with a freelancer to build their small business visit our corporate website at www.WebXinc.com). But a lot of small business are getting savoy to the idea of you get what you pay for. If you think of how much a billboard cost ($15,000 a month), a website should cost more than $1,500 dollars...

Here are some basic guidelines to keep in your notes if you're thinking about a small business website that is not interactive or database driven.

1) Design

This is one of the biggest areas of investment when build a small business website and where you separate yourself from your competition. A talented designer with online graphics experience will probably put in about 40 to 80 hours into a design. This will include making mock-ups, getting your approval, testing in multiple environments and implementing your ideas to website reality.

As long as they know their stuff and have online experience, the investment is a no-brainer. The designer will also work closely with a programmer who understands how to write standard code that is optimized for performance, functionality, and of course, search engines. The designer will work with your online marketing person to integrate the marketing copy and keywords/phrases that are required if you want any chance at a top-ranked website.

Make sure you avoid templates no matter how great they look.

Investment: $6,000 and up

2) SEO Programming

Make no mistake, if you don't have clean, fast-loading, search engine friendly code behind the scenes at your website you're in trouble with search engines.

Recently I wrote about "4 seconds" being all you have before visitors start to think about leaving a website! These issues will have web visitors heading for their back-button faster than you can say "don't leave yet! The programmer will also have to make sure all the proper keywords, keyword phrases, headings, marketing copy, alt-image tags, and page title tags are properly installed.

Think of choosing an SEO package that maintains your organic web site listing every month. These packages can range from $250 to $1000 a month depending on what services will be performed. But monthly SEO programming gets much better results than the one time work. Contact WebXperts.com at 404-870-0020 for SEO packages for businesses of all sizes

Investment: $2,500 (and up)

3) Hosting

It all comes together and is placed on a hosting server with your domain name tied to it. Usually, your hosting server also manages your incoming and outgoing email.

I talked with a woman last week who hadn't received any email from her website for almost a week. She figures it cost her over $3000 in lost sales and cost her a $15,000 catering job. Her website hosting company was the problem and she opted for one of these $9.95/month hosting solutions. You get what you pay for and when it comes to hosting and technical support so I recommend you avoid the the lowest-cost-provider.

Put another way, putting your website on cheap hosting is like building a house on sand.

Managed hosting is better than shared hosting because you have a team responsible and familiar with your project.

Investment: $1500/year and higher

4) HTML and other Web programming languages

An webprogrammer worth their salt is going to run you $5,000 or more. A good web programmer is going to tie in the web design and the SEO programming together with programming languages to make you site work. A good web programmer is going to understand design and usability issues, the importance of page copy (marketing communications), traffic development strategy, search engine optimization, search engine marketing (pay-per-click), and conversion.

Outsourcing this to a foreign company can cost you thousands. Make sure your web team is local or at least well known in the U.S.

Investment:$5,000 or more

5) Total Investment: $15,000 or more

If designed correctly, and integrated with an effective online marketing strategy, your website should generate 70 to 90% of your new business (after word-of-mouth). It should be the most cost-effective advertising and marketing you're doing for your business. If it isn't - something is wrong.

Your website should generate twenty inquiries a day (minimum) once established in the search engine databases. Especially if you're in a big market area (i.e. Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Orlando). I know that they can - because I see this first hand with many of my client's websites. If you're not getting those type of results you have to ask yourself: Why not?

Web Design Expert - WebXperts.com

2008-01-15T10:57:00.000-05:00

We have achieved outstanding results for the key word Web Design Expert. Here is a screenshot of it being listed as Number 4 on Google.

Contact WebXperts at 1-877-932-9778 for web design, web maintenance, web programming and all things Internet.

Atlanta Web Master - webmaster.webxinc.com - WebXperts

2008-01-12T16:14:00.001-05:00

Atlanta Web Master (webamaster.webxinc.com) was a keyword that we wanted to get a high web search presence with. Since WebXperts helped pioneer the field of web maintenance and outsourcing web master needs, we figured the rest of the world should know also.

It seems as if people like local webmaster. Bad for India, Russia, and wherever they do web design for 4 cents an hour and good for American companies that understand American business needs.

Enough of my Lou Dobbs impression of the cons of outsourcing and onto SEO.

WebXperts is #4 now for Atlanta Web Master. We will see what we can do to make us number 1.