Tag Archive | search engine optimization

Google, Bing & Yahoo! Search Engine Optimization

The Internet is becoming the center of practically everyone’s lives. According to TNS, more people spend more time on the internet than watching TV. As businesses realize the importance of having an online presence, your industry becomes more competitive. If you want to get found in the midst of 1 billion daily searches conducted online, you need website marketing professionals to help your business succeed.

Take it from us, Milian Design’s website is ranked #3 on Google for keyword searches “website design Worcester ma” and “advertising company Worcester ma”. That means out of over 4 million other pages in this category, we rank #3!

Let our expert search engine optimization (SEO) team handle all your website ranking needs. With the sea of websites out there, you need a company who has proven results and all the techniques to turn searches into customers. We will asses your competition, target locations and devise keyword and title searches to help your website skyrocket to the top of the proverbial search engine list.

Just visit www.miliandesign.com/searchengineoptimization to read all about our SEO compliant guidelines and techniques. Cheers!

Milian Design ranks #3 on Google Search

Milian Design ranks #3 on Google Search!

5 Characteristics To Look For When Choosing A Website Design Company

Are you looking for a web designer to get your website design projects done? Hiring a web designer is a crucial decision and there are a number of factors that should be considered while choosing a web designer for your website design projects. This article from Massachusetts Website Design company Milian Design will break down the essential 5 characteristics to look for when choosing a company to design your website.

Experience: One should find out how long their website developer or website agency has been in business and what type of projects they have worked on. There are many models for websites, and often there is someone whose past experience with a similar client type will be an advantage to you. Past experiences with similar business types should lead to quicker discovery because that website designer knows what options there are and what questions to ask. Also, make sure that your developer is working with modern technologies and best industry practices, no matter if they know your business model or not. Modern practices lead to better search engine results and good usability across multiple browser types and operating systems.

Development Skillset: Although this may be harder to hone in on, ask your website developer or website agency about their skill set and attention to best and industry standards. Ask if they are using most modern HTML coding, high quality CSS for best cross browser compatibility, smart basic search engine optimization practices, and a site that is foundational in that you can add more pages or content down the line. You may want to ask how far their technical strengths are in custom programming, ecommerce, content management system development, or other skills if you know you may need them. If you want to sell products online, you will need a website developer who has a lot of experience in ecommerce website design and development. Often, as a company uses the web more and more, business owners find they need more than one person do handle all skill sets needed for a particular website project.

Website Portfolio: A website company’s work will most often speak for itself. Decide if you like their website design portfolio. A design portfolio will show you what styles a website company can deliver and what type of features to expect in their page designs. When you look at a website design portfolio, you can form questions about those designs that may lead to a better design for you. If you see something you really like one of the website designer or website agency designs, you can point out what you like about it, what you want, and what you do not want.

Strategy: A website project requires proper preparation, attention to detail, collaboration, and more. Organization becomes as important as any of these items. You will want a website designer who can effectively communicate with you and your personnel, from project start to project completion. If you need a hand holder, hire a hand holder. If you want someone who will come in for planning meetings once a week as part of the project, hire someone who can commit to that. A website developer needs to have organizational tools in place to keep the project on time and can get all involved to meet deadlines in order to meet time goals. Ask your website developer how a project process will go and see that you can agree to meeting times and other requirements for good outcome.

Availability: If you know when you need your website to go live, make sure your website developer will be able to make him or herself available to meet your deadline. If they have many projects at once, make sure they will make your project as important and will meet your time requirements.