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Sarah Brown

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« on: June 30, 2004, 11:26:14 AM »

I have been in business for a couple of years and have been content up to now with having a website as something to refer potential clients to in order to view some of our work. We now want to start using it as a tool to generate some business itself.
 
Now, before I begin, I guess I should give you some background. My husband and I run a multimedia design business (with the empahsis on the design) and we do create websites, so, "Why don't you know this already?" I hear you cry. Well, we both studied the same digital media degree, but were not taught a single thing about search engine optimisation. It was entirely a design driven course, which has resulted in us having great design minds but little 'net marketing knowhow. As you can imagine, we desperately need this, not only to market ourselves, but to be able to give clients what they need.
 
This is the site: www.avmsolutions.co.uk
 
So, I'm currently doing this:
 
1. Putting META keywords and descriptions on every page.
 
2. Changing the page titles, so that they describe what's on that page (previously, I had called every page AVM Solutions)
 
3. The broadband site is completely flash driven, so I am going to put text on the page further down, so that unless the viewer scrolls down the page, they won't be able to see it. At a later date, the site will be completely changed, so that the site is only partially flash driven.
 
4. On the first page which asks for the viewers connection speed, I am going to put a site map with text hyperlinks to every page.
 
My questions:
 
a) Is any of the above not worth doing?
 
b) Is there anything I'm not doing that I could be doing, preferably at little cost?
 
If you've read this far, thank you. Cheesy
 
Sarah
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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2004, 11:54:16 AM »

One of the really basic aspects of the way search engines work (particularly Google) is that people find you by virtue of their search phrases matching the text on your site.
 
What little text content you have at present is deeply buried so you are to all intents and purposes invisible as far as a search engines are concerned.
 
It might help if you embrace the idea that your website needs to talk to your potential clients at many levels, and one of these levels should be to show that you can write good copy that draws visitors in.  And this needs to appear on your front page as well as internal pages.
 
If you also concentrate on building accessible, standards compliant web pages then you are also heading down the right road, because Google likes pages that are built in conformance with basic HTML standards.
 
Other than that, I would suggest you follow these guidelines and buy Brian's backlink service.  I haven't used his service yet but your site clearly lacks backlinks at present and it will give you a kickstart.  Also, if you buy a link from Business.com for $99 you will be doing yourself a favour.
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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2004, 02:07:38 PM »

If you don't mind a little reading, Sarah, then these articles will provide you with a lot of information to start with:
 
 Firstly, a rather comprehensive article by Andy Beal on general SEO:
 http://www.seo-lab.com/seo-articles/seo-basics-1.php
 
 Then here's a rather interesting article about applying SEO to optimise for Flash websites in particular:
 http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization/Optimizing-Flash/
 
 
 Don't worry about not being having been taught SEO, though - it's something most certainly best leanred via experience than some know-all overcharging everybody for information you can get off the net for free. Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2004, 09:17:21 AM »

Thanks for your replies, they've been a big help. Smiley
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« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2004, 07:45:39 AM »

Feel free to ask any more specific questions - I appreciate that a lot of reading has been dumped on you - I'll see if I can help at least a little in trying to provide none too technical answers - as otherwise I'll probably get carried away. Smiley
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2004, 06:47:38 PM »

Here's some more tips:-:rolleyes: :p Wink
 
http://www.solutions.ukdots.com/advertising_methods.html
 
You mention Flash... This may look good to users with fast internet use but for search engines it's not recomended.
 
Flash could be put on another page.
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« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2006, 02:36:13 PM »

Another website that may be useful to help get traffic to your site is one call www.hittail.com.

I've just been told about it so I can't as yet say how effective it is though.

I will, however, keep you posted if you want
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« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2006, 04:46:06 AM »

Interesting tips; although traffic is obviously good, I was never interested in learning much about it, my lost maybe... Wink

But then again, I do not have anything special that I want to share around...for now.
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« Reply #8 on: June 25, 2006, 03:11:09 AM »

Since you have such a specific target & area of expertise, I would get busy on some forums or message boards about the topic and include your website address in your signature (where allowed, of course)
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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2006, 11:20:59 PM »

Since you have such a specific target & area of expertise, I would get busy on some forums or message boards about the topic and include your website address in your signature (where allowed, of course)

I've heard that this is actually the most effective way of not only increasing traffic, but developing a reputation.
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« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2006, 01:27:56 PM »

Wink  Just make sure that reputation is a good one.

I do have to interject that complete flash sites are not too good for SEO or people on dial-up connections.  According to stats, that is over 40% of the internet population... about 28% of Americans as well.  That's a big chunk still.
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« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2006, 08:14:39 PM »

I see that OneofaKind kindly mentioned our up-and-coming HitTail site. Writing for the long tail of search is a difficult concept for a lot of folks, so we put together this nifty HitTailing demo. Feel free to check it out and comment.
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« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2006, 04:54:07 PM »

Hmm the HitTailing process does seem interesting; however, I would have to say that their demo does not give me the 'professional' vibe, yet I'm sure they are.
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« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2006, 05:35:21 PM »

But did it communicate the ideas clearly? When the idea has proven itself, we'll sink some resources into better demo. In the meanwhile, it was a quick project for me, where I scripted it, narrated it, learned flash and implemented it all in one week. If the idea makes a big splash, I'll turn the demo over to more capable hands.

I'm intrested in hearing from anyone who's using it. Thanks.
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« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2006, 05:42:39 PM »

Mike, I understand your point, but are'nt you actually better positioned if you make the investmen tand do the two simultenaously.
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