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Have you worked for businesses like ours?

Have you produced other sites using the type of features we've described?

Do you have ideas on how our brief could be improved?

What will you do to improve our ranking when we register with search engines?

Are you prepared to sign an agreement to sign over copyright to us?

Please provide a proposal to incorporate costing and ideas for hosting, design and development.

Please provide timescales.
key info

What will you do to improve our ranking when we register with search engines?
www.searchfactor.com - free meta-tag generator tool
Title(3) - description(50) - keywords(20-30)
Copy & past your meta-tag within the Head

TITLE tag - most crucial:
  • 3 keywords - short is better
  • First thing the search engine look for is the title of the page

Choosing keywords:
  • Mix of most popular keywords and the less popular
  • Shortlist less popular but more specific, niche market
  • Good mix o f: relevance, specific, popular, less popula
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  • Include business name in keyword
  • Geographical location - indication
  • Repeat meta tag keywords on every page

Writing for the Web:
  • Focus on 2-4 of your most important keywords/phrases on home page
  • Emphasise your main keywords in a paragraph heading and the first paragraph on each page
  • Writing short paragraphs, including sub headlines and integrating keyword-rich bullet points will help enhance usability while satisfying the search engines
  • Bullet list - search engine recognize each point
  • Turn paragraph headings into proper headings - H1 more important to H3
  • Emphasising different keywords for different pages allows you greater control in search engine optimisation
  • Prominence of a keyword on every page
  • Email addresses, tel, addresses shows you are a serious and respected company. Have offices and address, not just a spooky. (search engine picks this up as well)

Brochure & Leaflets: (Scan them in)
  • PDF files to download from the web
  • Search engines can read PDF files and will register any keywords

FAQ page
It is advisable as it shows care for your customers and it also works as a customer centre.
TIP: FAQ pages are useful in the optimizations for search engines. You can repeat key words in questions an in the answer. Write one Q&A for each keyword, repeat as much as you can. (10 questions)