Posts Tagged ‘web designer’

Increase Organic Ranking for Your Las Vegas Website

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

You may have a website for your Las Vegas business or company and that is most certainly a valuable marketing tool. The question to ask yourself is how does your website rank on major search engines such as yahoo!, google, msn and others?

Organic ranking is when your website ranks on a search results under the organic rankings once a search is performed on a set of keywords (not the sponsored or paid listings).

Here are some tips to increasing your organic rankings on local search engines in Las Vegas:

  • Ensure your city, state and zip code are in HTML text somewhere on each and every page.
  • Optimize your META tags to include relevant keywords, key phrases, for the title, description and keywords tags (consult a professional web designer in Las Vegas for more information.)
  • Ensure you have links between website pages from the home page to sub pages and in between.
  • Ensure you have a website site map page with links to all of your website pages included.
  • Keep your website content updated often. Search engines like websites with fresh content.
  • Purchase your domain for a long period of time. Search engines like google, yahoo, msn and AOL like when your domain name is purchased for a long period of time (10 years or more) as it means that your website is planning on being around for a long period of time.

Las Vegas Web Design: How to Plan Your Website

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

So you’re starting a website for your Las Vegas company or business. What do you need to do in order to contact a Las Vegas web designer to get an accurate estimate to build your website? We’ve come up with a checklist that you may want to follow so that you can give a website design company the proper information.

Tips to Planning Your Las Vegas Web Design Project:

  • Do you have a URL or domian name (i.e. www.companyname.com)?
  • Do you have a hosting company?
  • Do you have have the content written for your website?
  • Do you have a list of the pages you’d like included in your website?
  • Do you need a database or e-Commerce developed for your Web site?
  • If e-Commerce is needed, do you have a spreadsheet inventory of all of the products you’re planning on selling?
  • Do you have a merchant account and gateway?
  • Do you want/need photographic elements on your Web site?
  • What are your marketing goals for this site?
  • Who is your target audience?
  • Are you planning on optimizing your site for search engines?
  • When do you want to launch the Web site?
  • What is your budget for the Web site?
  • How often do you anticipate making updates to your Web site?
  • Do you need to be able to make updates to your website yourself?
With these questions answered, you’ll be prepared to speak to a local website design and development company, like Perkolate. Any questions, give us a call, 702.341.0085 or email us as fullsteam@perkolate.com.