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Townsville Web Design - What do website agencies do behind the scenes?

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  Townsville Web Design – How do website agencies build websites? Web Design Townsville WordPress Web Design Like all things in website design there is no one size fits all approach. However, there are certain trends that are followed by most people in the website design and search engine optimization community. One of these is WordPress, WordPress is quite common among website agencies for the main reason that it allows clients to edit their own website. This technology is called a content management system, and in many cases businesses automatically assume that they need a CMS. Where most website agencies fail is the problems caused when you give untrained professionals access to the website editor. When a well-seasoned web professional makes a change to a website, he or she is making a lot of complex changes that all have a reason. As one example let's say I want to upload a picture to the website, I would compress the picture, I would resize the picture, and I would convert it

Starting a new website - you need to read this!

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Overwhelmed when starting a new online business? Web Design Townsville At a Web Design Townsville, we have spent years perfecting the art of search engine optimization. Although we have confidence in the packages that we offer our customers, this does not mean that you can expect immediate results from your website if you are a brand new business with a brand new domain name. When it comes to search engine optimization or web design, there is an expectation that the uphill trend will not start for at least six months, bearing in mind that there is significant work such as content writing and lots of website adjustments which will still be a cost to the business during this time. At Web Design Townsville we try our very best to keep the costs down because we understand this is a period of growth which has no noticeable impact, however we mention it just to be as open and honest as possible.  At Web Design Townsville, we also take the approach where you as the business owner always have

Web Design Townsville - Building websites in small towns.

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  Small towns in Australia, Does web design matter in Townsville? Web Design Townsville Small towns in Australia like Townsville often end up losing a lot of local traffic because other businesses in the CBD push their SEO and website rank so much that they appear before the locals. See these 10 tips on how you can beat them... 1. Create engaging content that people actually want to read. Information that is targeted to your website visitors needs to be relevant and easy to understand.  2. The volume of content is also very important. In the vast majority of online businesses the first three pages of Google will have businesses which each have over 300 pages of content. This gives business owners and website builders a good opportunity to write valuable content that people want to read. In many cases creating valuable content is easier than you think, often people will be engaged in your business if it's just a line of sight into what you do on a daily basis. 3. Website. It seems o

Web Design Townsville - Can I build a website myself?

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  Can't I just build my own website and save money? Web Design Townsville In most cases a business owner building a website of their own has many challenges that you might not be aware of. For example, when we do even the most basic changes there are countless micro adjustments that need to be made. Let's say we are adding a picture to a website, we would all agree that's a fairly simple process however things you might not be aware of are things like, image compression, image size, next Gen image formats, responsive design, choosing when to use certain colors and choosing pictures that are not on other websites across the world. This is just one example of how a simple task like adding a picture can have a lot of complexities that a business owner does not understand. when you multiply this to every aspect of a website it becomes a very complex world to understand. This is why we have spent years perfecting the process so that our customers can send us simple content, text

Web Design Townsville - What is Web Hosting?

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  Web design and Web Hosting in Townsville QLD? Web Design Townsville Put simply, website hosting is where your website lives. In many cases the choice of where to host your website can be overwhelming. You can have your website hosted in very large datacenters or on an old computer in a basement. As a business owner it is not your responsibility to understand the details of website hosting, however it's important to understand the basics so you are not fooled buy cheap website companies. Our Townsville web design gurus make it nice and simple for you to decide. Option one, we look after all of the hosting for you and you have peace of mind that it is hosted in a data center also used by Microsoft and Telstra. Option 2, once the website is complete we can pick it up and put it wherever you like. In most cases option two has more risk because managing a webhost is very complex and should be left to specialists. We have also done countless hours of research into webhosts and we know

Web Design Townsville - CDN's and SEO

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  Content Delivery Networks and SEO Web Design Townsville At Web Design Townsville we explore all options and all avenues of search engine optimization. Generally speaking, we approach this from a very technical lens, meaning that we focus on the microscopic technical points behind web sites to understand what Google likes and what Google doesn't like. One of the key areas that we have seen is the presence of a content delivery network. A content delivery network (generally speaking) is a good thing, but it's important to understand that the primary reason that a content delivery network is better is because you get the website content given to you from the nearest “point of presence”. Let's break this down into plain English:   When somebody goes to Google and they click on your website, they are sent from their computer in their house to wherever the website is hosted. Google will know if that website is hosted in Australia or in the United States. When a website is hoste
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  Web Design Townsville - Do I need to pay more for SSL certificates? Web Design Townsville Yes - lets make this simple, you need to have SSL. Web Design Townsville specialize in building custom websites at affordable prices. These websites include many features that are not found on low-cost website builders. At web design Townsville we do things like use secure SSL certificates on all our websites. This may then ask  the question, what is an SSL certificate? This is a question many business owners don't bother to understand before buying a website. At Web Design Townsville, we use SSL certificates on every website that we build which tells Google you have a secure website and therefore you can expect a higher Google rank if your website does have an SSL certificate.  When somebody goes to your website from anywhere in the world, an SSL certificate ensures that from their computer to your website is encrypted traffic. This has many benefits from something as simple as a padlock sy

Web Design Townsville - Good Price for a Website?

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Why am I getting completely different quotes for a website? Web Design Townsville Wow, what a big question and often one thats answered with a LOT of bs. See the following 5 points that decide the price of a website to give you a rough estimate on what to expect. 1. What do you want to achieve?? Are you a local business that just wants to appear in Townsville? Or are you a mid sized business that wants to appear in search results all over Australia? 2. Another factor that helps to determine the price of a website is if there is a need for search engine optimization. Search engine optimization is a way to get your website appearing better in search engines like Google and Bing. Depending on the nature of the business, this can often be achieved by using blogs. Blogs are an important part of a website because it provides lots of content that Google loves. Although this is only one part of search engine optimization, you can see how this would affect the price dramatically if there is a n

Web Design Townsville

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  SEO and Web Design in Townsville Web Design Does Not Mean Customers! Although SEO can appear to be smoke and mirrors, there are some tried and tested methods to achieve a great rank in Google search engine that are explained below. So let's get down to business – the top 10 tips for SEO Townsville.  1.  The first step is to choose the right domain name. In many cases the domain name has already been decided on because you may be in existing business, if this is the case that's fine we will have a conversation with you around ways we can optimize your domain name and do things like change the name of the homepage. The domain name is very important because it can have keywords like  SEO Townsville  in the domain name which is likely to put you at the top of search results.  2.  Once you have your domain name, the next step is to identify how many backlinks it has. As you know from previous blog posts, a back link is a link pointing to your website from somebody else's websi