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Archive for January, 2007

Credit Solutions LLC has ordered a Premium web site design for thier main site, which targets mainly Debt Consolidation, Debt Settlement and Credit Repair Services. It’s a redo and fix of a site I created years ago but was turned over to a company in India which made some, um, not so functional changes.

I’m handling the search enginge optimization service for this company. It’s quite beyond just the basic search engine optimization service I provide. It’s a custom package actually, it’s skipping all the paid directories and focusing on specific hand-picked free web site directories. Not the way I would usually do it, but I’m confident it will have positive results. Already after only tow weeks more links to the site from pages indexed by search engines are showing up. Being a brand new web site, it’s still in the “google sand box” so we’ll see what kind of google PageRank it’ll have after it emerges from the google sandbox in a few months.

This was a Florida Web Site Design Project.

Florida Hurricane Panels has purchased update their web site design. I made their web site orginially three years ago. The web sites uses a three flash movies on the front page. One flash animation is for navigation (of course it has regular text navigation as well), another incorporates the logo (which I also re-did) and the third showcases some of the work they’ve done. This third animation is the largest of the three and is only on the home page. The other two are much more subtle and are part of the entire sites graphic design.

This is what we like to call a “Premium Plus” web site type here at Dream Designs by Texx Smith. This site was purchased through the St. Petersburg Web Design office.

Most of the time when a client starts a new web site the just assume google, yahoo, MSN and the other search Engines (SE’s) will index their web site and show it their search results. This is just not the case. Why?

Well there are several reasons:

• Search Engines make more money when they don’t relative content in their results. After all no one would buy those ads if the search engines worked the way they should.
• IT’s hard for a robot to tell what your site is about. The SE’s don’t have humans reading the sites, they use “bots” to do it. That’s where the Basic SEO I give to all web site design customers comes in. This valuable service lets the SE’s know what your web site is a about and tells them “Here’s a quality web site you should include.”
• Competition. For most search terms there are literally at least hundreds of thousands of competitors. They haven’t decided “I want to compete against you” (most of them anyway), but their web site content is similar to yours (at least the SE’s bots think so).

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