Google Sitemap & Yahoo Sitemap how much should they cost

One of my clients emailed me this morning, upset that this SEO place in Washington had emailed him saying he needed a Google Sitemap & Yahoo Sitemap, and they offered the service of making them and doing the initial registration. They are charging something like $375 for this service of making a google sitemap and a yahoo sitemap and registraion this should cost about $50. To make a google or yahoo site map takes not more than 5 minutes, theres a program you can run that collects all the urls on your website, and the registration should be done by the owner of the website, or a trusted SEO, because that gives the person that did the registration access to confidential information about your website. This doing the registration for you particularly concerns me, becasue with a google site map in particular the information google is now offering is pretty outstanding. It's telling you how many searches your site is appearing, and how your site ranked in these searches. So really with this type "professional" that uses "Indian SEO type client finding techniques" who's making you pay for $375 for something that should cost about $50 at most, and this person would have access to your website statistics, and therefore could get in touch again, saying, oh you really need this type or that type of SEO done, probably link building, and looking at their site I see they charge $3500-$3000 per month for a link building campaign, thats pretty good pay for one link building tech, I don't charge anything like that for a monthly SEO campaign. A website can never have enough links to it, never, but there does come a time when the site has enough to go one with, and people start emailing you and asking for links, thats when I stop doing links, becuase the job is time consuming and getting one good link can take hours out of a monthly SEO campaign. I offer link building as part of my monthly seo packages. Sure I wouldn't give you hundreds of one way links or recip links, but google get's suspicious when a lot of links appear to a website all of a sudden, it's better to have say 10 good links rather than 500 crappy ones a month. Anyway, just be careful if you get an email from this place in Washington or anywhere, thats offering Google SiteMaps and Yahoo Sitemaps for $375, the aren't offering anything except a way to get more seo work from you for themselves. In fact, they would do well to actually offer this service free, considering the information they would then have about your website. I'll paste the email they sent below, so hopefully you will do a search and find this blog post, before getting caught up in this scam, obviously I changed the links in the email. As I was on http://www.SEObyCanz.com this morning, I was unable to locate a "Google Sitemap file" on your website. I am not referring to a regular "site map" for people to visit online, but rather to a script which helps Google to read and index your website's overall content. I advise you to visit us online where we explain clearly what a "Google Sitemap file" is and what you need to do to get one: http://www.ripoffseoGoogle and Yahoo-Sitemaps.com/sitemap A Sitemap file is a "code" placed in the root directory of your website which captures all the crucial information about your website, thus facilitating the crawling and indexing process for Google. Give Google easier access to your site: Get a Google Sitemap file! We offer a full turnkey service, including Google and Yahoo Sitemap files creation + registration. Visit us online for more details. Regards,SEO Services San Diego Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com

Google SEO I SEO for Google

Catering to Google when I do SEO on a website. Always, when I do SEO on a website I cater to Google, and only to Google. Years ago I also used to work with yahoo, but found after a year of doing SEO for yahoo and Google equally, I found that the number of visitors to the site approximately 580 visitors came through Google searches to every 1 through yahoo. So I switched to spending all my time doing SEO for Google, and within 5 months visitors have quadrupled from Google. Every now and again a client will insist on their site being optimised for Yahoo, and the stats have changed, now for every 500 searches finding the site using Google, between 3-10 visitors come through Yahoo. Because I don't usually optimise for Yahoo, it doesn't mean that Yahoo doesn't pick up the site, often in fact Yahoo has indexed as many pages as Google has, but search results don't tend to be that high compared to google, unless of course you pay to have your pages indexed by yahoo then things change, but still not enough to warrant the cost, but the SEO I do for the main part, is done in a way that when I finish doing the SEO the sites owner doesn't have to keep paying for adverts everywhere, the results in Google will stay pretty much as they are as when I finish. SEO Services San Diego Best Regards Lynny - getting on google, from the BEST SEO!!!

Website Builders Hillcrest, San DieGo, CA, Anywhere

Website Builders, or people that build websites usually refer to themselves as website designers, yet actually this isn't strictly correct, there are several steps to building a website, and web design, and website building are two very different steps. Web Design = Designing what the website will look like, the banner, where the menu's will be, how the page will be laid out, again the look of a website. This is often done by the webdesigner making pictures of various pages, and showing the client to get their approval. You should not judge a website designers abilities, by the sites they have in their portfolios, as often they build attractive design, and the owner wants some quite different, I haven't ever met a website designer, that has not left many debsite designs out of their portfolio, because of the owners input, making the site unattractive. Website Builders = They take the website design and make it work, this is also called web development or website development, but generally what they do is build the design into a website. Most of the very best website builders, don't have good website design skills and neither web designers or website builders are very good with people, well they are, but tend to be a bit geeky, and tend to only speak in geekspeak. Canz Design, Website Design & Web Building Company, based in Hillcrest San Design, and works with clients worldwide. I'm part owner of Canz Design, but don't have anything to do with website design or building, apart from giving my opinion, I leave that to the experts, I specialize in making websites findable in search engines using the techniques generally known as SEO or Search Engine Optimization. I also work with clients when the aren't sure what they need in a website, the just know they need a website, I listen to what they want, and explain how that might happen, giving them options, and my opinion of the best way to acheive their requirements. I have a nack for thinking outside the square, and think laterally and horozontally when required. The often say that with my help, they don't feel like an idiot when then replying to the design, and builder who tend to be a bit geeky. I often get urgent emails or phone calls, when our clients start working with the design or website building person asking what something or other means. Getting on google with SEO Services San Diego Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com

Indian SEO's You don't even get what you pay for

I have recently taken on yet another SEO job, from a business that was using an Indian SEO company. The owner decided to change SEO, because he found a website that shows where the website visitors are coming to your website from, and 98% of visitors were from Indian IP addresses.... This is a business which operates strictly in California, Texas, and Florida, although they are looking at expanding to other states, but not internationally. This business has been having the Indian SEO team work on his business website for several months, they charge $250 a month.... The owner sent me the last monthly report of what they had done it was about 12 pages long and looked at a glance, to someone that didn't understand what they were reading rather impressive. HOWEVER: I looked at it, and in fact what they had supposed to have done would only take about 30 minutes to do. Let me explain. They had changed 1 links on 7 pages, to show as bold rather than normal text. In Dreamweaver, this would take about 5 minutes, with search and replace, so the 5 minutes includes opening the program and pages to be changed. They had added the phone number to the same 7 pages meta tags, since dreamweaver is now open, as are the pages they are working on, this would only take about 1 minute. Added alt tags to 5 images on the same page, this has to be done manually, since the wording was different, but still with copy and paste, it would only take about 10 minutes. Validated 4 webpages. And fixed errors, that they had made in the first place, I won't even uote a time on that, because you can't chanrge clients to fix mistakes you made.... well I don't Submitted 2 blogs to 2 blog search engines.... 5 minutes... if you are any kind of SEO you would already have the links to the submit page. Submitted site to 30 social bookmarking sites, 10 of these sites were not written in English, so of little use. This would cost me $5 to have done. They had 40 directory submissions done, this job a subcontract and would cost me $10 Link Exchange 39 link exchanges... this is an interesting one, because I checked this site for broken links, and many of these "Link Exchanges" had broken links to them, done purposely, and

1. If you actually looked at the domain names, 25 were the same as the directory submissions above
2. a few the site didn't even exist, something you wouldn't notice if you didn't check.
3. many of these places were just directory type places, and had no real website so they weren't real link exchanges which takes a lot of time to do. so again
4. many of the real sites were again non-English sites.

Since these changes had no real value, Adding the broken links to this sites pages 15 minutes at most So thats 30 minutes, and $15 work, now writing the report, THAT would have taken a good 2 to 3 hours to colate all the information, and get it looking good, and read 12 pages long, in a pdf.... but still the business was paying $250 a month, for 30 minutes, and $15 work I'm charging an extra $100 a month, so $350 total, and have already spent 8 hours working on the SEO for his site, when I do seo on a regular monthly bases for a business, I find the best way to do the work is as soon that months payment clears, I do the work for the month, that way they SEO services I provide, are working for the website before the next month payment is due. SEO Services San Diego Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com getting on google SEO Blog SEO Services San Diego Professional Website Design San Diego

Spoke seems to be a ripoff

Well I signed up with Spoke, but it seems you find out after jumping through all their hoops, that the only way to do anything is to pay for it.... Darn, I NEVER pay for anything online, until I see what they really have to offer, there are just too many ripoff places out there, and my feeling is, if you can't even have a few days free full membership, to see whats for offer, then it isn't worth paying for, cause they are hiding something.

Anyway, I wrote a pretty good intro, so thought I would post it here, so you can read a bit more about me and what I so.

Hi
My name is Lynn, I live, breath and dream SEO. (Making websites rank highly in search engines, ensuring people looking for your products or services can find your site)

I'm disabled, and spend most of my awake time in front of a computer, and my policy is better to be doing something, than sitting watching TV. My life and business partner builds and develops websites so we make a dynamic duo.

I also have a policy, of not working with any website that is in direct competition with any site I have done SEO on, either presently or in the past. I figure there are plenty of different businesses out there, I don't need to double up. Since many of the business I work with are aiming at the local market, then working with another business in another area of the country wouldn't make it competition.

I've been doing SEO since before I knew it had a name, and have worked on several websites in the past 7 years I have been doing SEO professionally.

At present, I'm working on a websites for the following businesses one selling Soft Fish Bait, and Helicopter Adventure Company, and a home business selling breastfeeding products, all in New Zealand

A site Selling Gemstones in outback Australia

A  Website Design Business, a Dentist in Chula Vista  All based in San Diego

So what?s your business? How is your website doing in search engine ranking or search engine results, are you getting the attention/sales/inquiries you thought you would from your website?

As you can see I am working with many types of businesses and companies, making their website show highly in search engines.
So if you want your website to get more visitors, but more importantly your website to get visitors that are actually looking for your products, then contact me. I?m the person that will do it.

www.SEObyCanz.com SEO Services, and
www.CanzDesign.com Website design and brand development

SEO Services San Diego

Contact Me directly.
Lynny
help1@seobyCanz.com

Marketing Business in Hillcrest, San Diego

Business Marketing & Website Marketing using SEO It is possible to market your business even if you don't have a website, however a professional looking website is your clients first introduction to your business. And is invaluable. In saying that, I was recently approached about marketing a business online without a website, and the clients were very happy with the result. Marketing a business with a website is much, I feel effective, but it can be done without a website. Contact me, I will give you a quote to market your business whether or not you have a website, or if you are looking for a website to be built or rebuilt, and know you it will also need to be marketed, of course I can help. Contact Lynny help1 at seobycanz.com SEO Services San Diego Best Regards Lynny - getting on google, from the BEST SEO!!! Not The Cheapest SEO, but I get SEO Results that amaze My Clients and & other SEO's SEO Blog SEO Services San Diego Professional Website Design San Diego SEO hints and Tips

Meta tags or No Meta tags

SEO professionals fall on different sides of the fence on this question, some believe meta tags are not required, as search engines don't use them. This is not true, the truth is meta tags, especially the keyword meta tag has been used incorrectly, or spammed over the years, as have description meta tags, or the meta tags are exactly the same on every page, which renders them useless. Google has tried to overcome these badly written meta tags, so sites won't be so affected by them. However if a website has well thought out meta tags, they will always rank better in the SERP's if that is the only difference in the algorithm. So if meta tags are used correctly, they work very well, adding precious keywords to your webpage and it's search engine algorithm. I find it interesting that when I visit a website of an seo that says meta tags aren't of use anymore, often their own meta tags are badly written if they are there at all!!! The problems with not witting meta tags is if the search engine has noting to read, it will read the first thing on the page, which is more often than not the menu, and you will get something like this showing up in the description in a search..... 4 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09. © Copyright . All rights reserved. web site: Do you really want you people searching for your website to see? Contact me today, about how I can help your website rank better in search engines. SEO Services San Diego Best Regards Lynny - getting on google, from the BEST SEO!!! Contact Me directly. Lynny help1 at seobyCanz.com SEO Blog SEO Services San Diego Professional Website Design San Diego

Using Google Adwords vs SEO

SEO is used to get your website in general, ranking highly in Search Engines. I say your website in general, since a good SEO will make sure that ever page on your website, would attract visitors in for different products and or services, since it's a well know fact that people searching for the same product or service will probably all search Google using different search phrases. EG. I'm just starting with the optimization a website for a Dentist in Chula Vista, San Deigo, CA but how would you search for his website? Or what would you put in the search engine to search. There are literally hundreds of ways it could be searched for. Think about it for a minute. Dentist, Chula Vista Dentist, Chula Vista, SD, CA Dentist, Chula Vista, San Diego, CA Dentist, Chula Vista, San Deigo Dentist Chula Vista, SD Dentist in Chula Vista, Dentist in Chula Vista, SD, CA Dentist in Chula Vista, San Diego, CA Dentist in Chula Vista, San Deigo Dentist in Chula Vista, SD Dentist near Chula Vista, Dentist near Chula Vista, SD, CA Dentist near Chula Vista, San Diego, CA Dentist near Chula Vista, San Deigo Dentist near Chula Vista, SD Ok, thats 15 different ways, but hang on, what abut if you wanted a specific type of dentist like a family dentist Chula Vista, or a cosmetic dentist Chula Vista when you think about it, there are thousands and thousands of ways to search for a dentist... and if you actually searched for all these phrases, one after the other, you would often find that the results would be different, depending on the words used, what order they were in, etc. An SEO wannabe, which most people that say they can do optimization are, would only optimize your front or home page, so maybe your website would rank well for just 1 or 2 phrase, however a good SEO would get other pages working for you. Then SEO Guru's like me, I have every single page working for your website, each for different phrases, and use many techniques to make that happen. Google Adwords Google Adwords do have their place, I often suggest them when you have a new product or service you are offering and want people to know about it today, or for very very popular search phrases. With a new Product or Service it could take a month or so to have the new page about it rank in the Search Engines highly enough to get clicks, or with very popular phrases, having google adwords, while I work on getting that page to rank higher. It isn't hard, just time consuming, but since I'm disabled I spend my whole day at the computer, so I have the time and know what and how to get a website to work. That's why our Website Design San Deigo website advertises Websites that Work. We used to just build websites, but as I learn more about search engines, and how a website that wasn't Search Engine Optimized, it meant that the site owner had to pay so much money to have the website even found, eg. various types of printed advertising, online advertising, that I decided that it was better to optimise it as part of the price of the website, some clients decide not to have their sites worked on by me, but as yet, there hasn't been a client, that hasn't come back within a year, and asked me to do it. SEO Services San Diego Best Regards Lynny - getting on google, from the BEST SEO!!! Not The Cheapest SEO, but I get SEO Results that amaze My Clients and & other SEO's Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com SEO Blog SEO Services San Diego Professional Website Design San Diego

SEO Reference. A satisfied SEO client

A new client wanted references from past clients, this was one he was sent, and I thought I would share what was said about my SEO Consultancy Skills

SEO with Lynny from www.canzdesign.com 1. How long have you used the service? Since August 2008 2. What is your average monthly site traffic. My traffic has really increased over the past few months, and I’m getting just under 10,000 unique visitors a month. Before any of the SEO work started, I was getting about 6,000 visitors per month. 3. What is your average monthly amount of only inquiries? Very few of “only inquiries”. Most of the people that visit my site purchase products from me directly on the website – they don’t do an enquiry first. The first point of contact I get from people is the sale. This is better for me, as it means that less time is taken up answering enquiries and emails. As of January 2009, I am getting about 3 times increase in sales per week compared to before the SEO started. 4. In what search engines do you rank well and what are some of your page ranks in the SE's? well in the google search engine which everyone uses, my products come up in first or second position. This is true for the majority of the products that I sell, and the keywords that we have been targeting. The site also shows up in other search engines of course too. I have stopped using the Google Adwords campaign now, as that was getting redundant because my pages are showing at the top I don’t need to pay for the adwords at the side of the page. Before we started the SEO work, my page rank was 1. I have had my site for four years, and it was only page rank 1. Canzdesign just emailed me last week with the good news that the Page Rank is now 4, and many of the internal pages within my website also have their own page rank. 5. Do you know of other companies that have successfully used her services? No I don’t know of them personally, but I have seen some of the work they have done. 6. What else can you tell me about Canzdesigns that would be helpful? I was initially very cautious about starting any SEO work, I was hesitant about doing something that I did not really understand. The help and support I have received from Canzdesigns has been astounding, and I am already seeing a huge improvement in my sales revenue, and of course page rank etc. To me, the sales revenue is the main thing that I needed to increase, and that has already happened. Its only been a few months, so I am getting ready for a big year! The support that I have received from Canzdesign has often extended beyond our SEO contract. And they are always quick to reply to emails and be available. The price is totally reasonable as well. I highly highly recommend CanzDesign SEO. Best wishes Name and Contact details removed at Writers Request because of Spam and Nasty Tactics from a woman that thinks shes one of the Writers Competitors Truth is, the other tart, doesn't have a hope in hell of getting the anywhere near a competitor, Hi it's Lynny again. Let me first explain, I didn't do any seo work for this client, I was her SEO consultant and explain her website statistics to her each month. I can't take all the credit for how Frances' Breastfeeding Products Online Store howw her Site is Ranking in Search Engines, well I can.... but also the work that she has put into her site is a real credit to her as she said she was already getting 6000 unique (visitors to the site that haven't been there before) so 6000 unique visitors before I started. Her total number of visitors is of course much higher again, but that's because she offers a great service and her clients are coming back. I have made suggestion for all sorts of changes to her website, and the next day, she has made the changes and asking about what else she could do. She had already started a Breastfeeding Blog and only made a few posts, once I explained the best way to use a blog, she went ahead and has made 230 posts in her blog in 4 months, which are resulting in over 1200 visitors going to her website after reading her blog posts. I just did a check yesterday, 2864 different keywords and keyphrases have been used to find her website in search engines so far this month, that's a lot of different ways people have searched for her breastfeeding products. Looking at the top 200 keywords people used to find her website, only 16 keywords didn't rank on the 1st page of google search results, 150 of those 200 keywords were all in the top 5 positions in Google search results, and just over 100 where number #1 on Page 1 of google. I know what I have said is a bit geeky, but basically Frances Online Breastfeeding Products Store was doing pretty well in search engines before I started being her SEO consultant, so although she's only getting an extra 4000 visitors to her website, she's getting more sales than she was, and making international sales were one of the major objectives when she requested my SEO services re: SEO Consultancy. SEO Services San Diego Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com SEO Blog SEO Services San Diego Professional Website Design San Diego

SEO Link Words to your website

If you do a search for the two words Click Here in google and probably all search engines, the adobe pdf reader download page will rank #1. Yet no where on the actual page are the words click here mentioned. So how does it rank #1. How indeed.... it's from the millions of websites that tell people to Click Here to download the PDF reader. This just shows how links to your site, or the words in those links can rank your site for keyword that aren't even mentioned in the conventional places on a well optimized website. The problem of cause is how many links you would have to have around the internet to rank well for any set phrase. But for instance if I link to Best SEO in San Diego or San Diego's best SEO and then have those words in the conventional places a well optimized website has it's keywords, the number of times you have to have links containing the keywords, must be less. I don't know how many links using your keywords you might need, it really does depend on each websites competition, and the pagerank and number of links they have, but it would be many 100 less links, don't you think. SEO Services San Diego Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com SEO Blog SEO Services San Diego

Googles new Favicon Love it!!!

Got to love the new Google favicon, stands out much better on a tabbed browser than the old one, lets hope it's here to stay. SEO Services San Diego Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com SEO Blog SEO Services San Diego

San Diego Debt Settlement

Debt Settlement San Diego Yesterday I met a new client, their business is helping their clients reduce their debt so the client can pay it off, rather than opting for BANKRUPTCY If I was in debt, I would certainly opt to use their services, they have some impressive debt settlement results, and if in debt, I would prefer to keep my good name, and pay off my debts, rather than being a credit leper for the next 14+ years, which is what people don't tell you about BANKRUPTCY. Wouldn't it be a shame to go BANKRUPT then next year your circumstances change, and you get a great job, but your credit is out the window for many years to come, or like you have heard on TV a bad credit rating can stop you for even getting a job, or a place to live. I suggest you visit their site, www.debtfreeleague.com and contact these progressive innovative guys, guys that think outside the square, and know the people to talk to, and deals that can be made, and get them to assist you reduce and stabilize your debts, giving you breathing room to pay your debts and keep your good credit name. These guys have saved clients up to almost 80% of their initial debt, yes reduced debts by almost 80% Best Regards Lynny Brown - Best SEO Results, from the BEST SEO!!! Not The Cheapest SEO, but I get Results that amaze My Clients and & other SEO's Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com SEO Blog SEO Services San Diego Professional Website Design San Diego

SEO Costs Why SEO is a good investment

SEO Services in San Diego. I've recently done a marketing study for a business that sells soft fish bait, looking at all forms of advertising and working out where their advertising dollar could best be spent. There were some surprising results, well surprising for the client anyway, no I must admit I was shocked at the total. For advertising in Fishing magazines, in Yellow pages, newspapers and paid placement adverts online, the bill for a years advertising was just over $1.250,000 and even that was conservative, and at the end of that year this amount would need to be repeated. I initially told the client before I worked out the advertising budget, that if he used 2 months of his first years advertising total on SEO, he could ensure his site would have top placement for several hundred keywords and phrases. However, after I had worked out the advertising campaign, I revised my quote quite drastically, telling him that for just the last 5 figures, I could have his site ranking extremely highly for thousands of keywords and that once the work was done, the number of visitors visiting his site would stay basically the same, increasing more over time as the site and products got well known. It certainly would be exciting to get an seo job, that I could work on fulltime with no limits, just to see what huge results I could get. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com SEO & Graphic Design Website Best SEO Blog SEO hints

Search Engines More people use Search Engines

WEBSITES NEEDS SEO

A study done in July 2008 by TMP Directional Marketing showed that slightly more people were now using the internet to search for local businesses than using the printed yellow pages.

This is a big change as yellowpages have always ruled for local businesses. The study also showed that people preferred to actually purchase the product offline, which was a bit of a surprise for me, but with problems with secure websites or lack of secure websites, I guess I can see that although people found the product they wanted online, they prefer to go to their local store to buy it.

his development though begs the question should businesses that only cater to local clients spend more money on SEO rather than adding shopping carts to their websites. Sure display your product range and prices, but if your site can't be found in search engines, then your website is perhaps a waste of time, unless of course you are happy to keep paying for advertising showing your url or something like google adwords.

Many business owners don't understand that SEO costs less than even a ½ page advertisement on a newspaper, and once SEO is done, it keeps working month after month, whereas a newspaper add is disposed of within a day or to.

I must admit I haven't priced yellow pages printed ad's here in San Diego, and yellowpages are kept unlike newspapers, but still yellowpages only last for a year, SEO is forever.

Sure as your competitors get their websites SEOed you may have to get your SEO to update your website.

I maybe one of the last SEO's that actually refuse to work on a competitors website, although realistically I could, and just make sure they don't compete for the exact same keywords and phrases.

Call or email me, for a quote to SEO your website

Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com 619 269 5372 San Deigo Southern California

More people search in search engines than in Yellow Pages

A new study done in July 2008 by TMP Directional Marketing, shows that more people are now using Search Engines to find out about local businesses and what they have to offer than looking in the printed Yellow Pages. This is the first time ever, and certainly shows a trend, that people should note. Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com

Make your website work for your business

In this time of economic crises businesses are looking at the ways they are spending money, and seeing that often their websites are bringing in the business they had hoped. Read more about Making your website work for your business http://canzdesign.blogspot.com/2008/10/make-your-website-work-for-your.html Best Regards Lynny Brown - Best SEO Results, from the BEST SEO!!! New Zealand Born, English speaking SEO. Not The Cheapest SEO, but I get Results that amaze My Clients and & other SEO's Contact Me directly. Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com

Hillcrest SEO San Diego

Have my first SEO job in Hillcrest, San Diego as an SEO, I've been here since the 15th Sept, and spent the first week getting used to the different weather in the United States and getting used to the different life here. Found the job on craigslist, I love that place, could quite easily spend the whole day there. After writing this post, I'm going to make a few posts of my own, and look for more work both webdesign and SEO work here in San Diego. I have to say I love Hillcrest, being in a suburb that has so many openly gay businesses is a very new experience for me. It's really cool to see males and females walking around holding hands without feeling they have to be careful whose around. I'm really going to enjoy being the official Hillcrest SEO :) Lynny help1@seobyCanz.com > SEO & Graphic Design Website Best SEO Blog SEO hints

Problems with cheap websites

I have been asked to take over and work with various Indian programmers, after they have baffled the website owner, don't get me wrong, I'm sure many Indian programmers do a good job, I've just never come across any.

I did a quick tally last night, and I figure I have worked with 14 different Indian programming companies. And I know my name is on a blacklist somewhere on an Indian coders forum, because I insist that a website works, because the last programmer told me so, when he was getting angry with me, he rang me and said, I should never have worked with you, blah blah blah, I thought that was pretty cool, people are being warned about working with me, because I insist that the work be done correctly, that everything works, and when it comes to beta testing a site I would find every tiny problem.

That's a pretty good name to have I would say. I'm proud of it.

As an example of some problems I have come up with, problems that I've come up against, the first place I worked with, I assumed that if a feature was mentioned that that feature would then work, that's a reasonable assumption I would say.

One I particularly remember, because now I think it so funny but got me so mad at the time. We worked on a site that had 3 levels of website user, the top level coaches, then registered members, then general site users, a coach could sell products or services through the site. And one feature was the ability for coaches to say that website members that made bookings for a seminar before a specific date would get an early bird special discount price. That's a pretty normal way of working right?

When the site was finished, sure enough the coach could there was a place to put an early bird price, but at first it didn't show on the page when a website member looked at the details of the seminar. When I made an issue of this, the programmer said he didn't even know what that early bird thing meant, so just put a text box, so the coach could add this.

I thought well fair enough I guess, different countries different ways of doing things, so I explained how it should work. That was fixed duly, and all seemed well. Until I was beta testing as a registered member and noticed that although the features was there, and it said on the seminar page there was a discount, that when a member made their order, they were charged the normal price not the early bird price. Thinking this was just an oversight, I approached the company, and asked that it be fixed, this is where the problems started.

They said that that feature was in the list of what a coach could do, but was not listed for what a member could do, which was true, it wasn't listed, and because of this the site was now going to cost more to make this feature work for members. I must say they put forward a very good argument, and to the novice building their first website they would have probably paid.

However, I hit the roof, and walls of the reply email, saying that was the dumbest thing I had ever heard, how it didn't even make sense that it or any feature wouldn't work for all people that were using the feature. Anyway to cut a long story short, I eventually got what I wanted and didn't pay anything extra for it. But that was only the first of many many such issues there were something like 62 different parts of the site that the coder actually didn't know what the work order meant, so simply didn't add the features, or added a half assed job, once the coder even admitted to me on MSN that he had hoped that a particular feature was forgotten, because he didn't have any clue how to do it.

When starting to work with these company's you will also get a multipage proposal for building your website, this will be 35 plus pdf pages, and seems to list every last detail, but a word of warning, never under any circumstance assume anything. I did in the above mentioned example, and if I hadn't of known, could have had a different outcome. They always quoted a new price whenever I mentioned a different feature not working, and if I would have paid them all, the site would have cost over 3 times as much as the original quote said.

Oh another problem we had that was really funny, on the proposal anyone visiting the site could ask the coach a question by clicking on a link which took them to a form page. However because it wasn't mentioned on the coaches list that they would receive this form, the submitted form didn't have a place to go, it was really just a dummy form. How pathetically dumb was that.

My main problem with them is they prey on unsuspecting new website owners, people that really need a helping hand, and understanding that the idea of a site will evolve as it is being built, they are offering them a cheap website, and pretending to be wonderful and helpful, ringing up talking for hours on the phone. When most often rip the poor client.

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Cheap websites can end up a nightmare

I've dealt with a few website owners, over the years, who had their original website built by different Indian website designers/developers. Although the original website was cheap enough, they mistakenly agreed to have only the original developer do any changes on the site in the future or the site warrantee would be void.

One site was a comprehensive community website that originally cost only $6000 USD. Great price for the site, so no problems there, however a year down the line, and the site wanted to add a feature they wrote to the developer, and they wanted, $25,000USD that's twenty five thousand dollars USD for what was a relatively easy job even if the coding had to be written from scratch.

This is outrageous, yet sadly enough commonplace. For a new website owner really daunting.

Looking at the website warrantee or guarantee it actually only lasted for a month after the site was built, so I advised the owner of this, much to their relief.

I found a coder, and had the job done for a total of $350. The killer was that the feature the owner actually wanted added, was actually in the code all the time, and had been hidden, so all that was required was to find it, and take out the code that was hiding it. It took me longer to find a coder that actually coded in that particular coding language than it did to have the work done.

It is vital that if you get a cheap site made you don't agree to anything like this, for this very reason. I have heard story after story from owners of how these "Cheap websites" end up costing the owner a bundle of money.

Another story was a website, that at first look, seemed to be a nice website, and as long as any members joined, and did everything correctly the site worked well. And in the testing stage of the website, since the owner wasn't an experienced beta tester, he didn't realize there were no correct error controls within the site.

I went to the site, actually to become a member, I filled out the membership form, and when I submitted it, my password didn't have enough characters, when the page refreshed after the error message it was blank, so I filled it in again, this time my dyslexia kicked in and my password didn't match, again I was faced with filling in the form. After 4 tries I eventually got the form to accept, and wrote to the owner, explaining that it was a simple change in coding to make the form keep the information, when something like that happened. And told him what to ask his developers to do in geek speak.

The owner wrote back and thanked me, and said that he hadn't known of the problem, and would get it fixed. All was well. I started writing to the owner just on a friendly basis about the site, and how things were going, his idea was a good one, and I have an inquisitive nature, like hobit our hedgehog mascot.

A month later the site owner wrote to me and said he hadn't had a reply from the company, after several emails on his part, and was sick and tired of their lousy after sales service.

He told me about a couple of other issues that had been reported, and asked if our webdesign/development company would be willing to fix these issues. I by that time had found another 3 problems with the site.

I said that we'd be happy to do the work, and carry on as his developer. I suggested that I beta test the site, which he was happy for me to do. I found 24 different issues, nothing major but things that should have been found and fixed during the building and testing stage.

While looking at the code to fix a couple of small issues, I noticed that some of the code was familiar, and actually turned out to be open source code, free to use, and just had a couple of minor customizations made to it, and should never have cost the $4000 that he was charged in the first place, so even though initially he was happy with the cheap price, he was actually overcharged.

That was over 3 years ago now, and now the site works well, has had several changes made, and features added, the owner is a happy camper.

The moral of the story is, you often get what you pay for, especially when it comes to very cheap websites. And paying for someone to explain the options you have can often save you a lot in the long run.

Regards Lynny

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One job since arriving in San Diego

I arrived in San Diego on the 15th, got married on the 17th, finished one seo job, and scored 2 new SEO jobs right here in San Diego on the 22nd and 24th of September. So I'm up to 9 out of my 10 clients.

Have been busy getting used to a whole new country, I'm fascinated by the black people here. I've touched 3 different peoples skin, and it's so soft, nothing like what I've always though that it would have been tough skin.



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Commissioned a painting By Georgie MacBrayne New Zealand Artist

I commissioned a painting from Georgie MacBrayne a very talented New Zealand artist from http://www.fish-paintings.co.nz/.

I sent her a very bad graphic of the idea I wanted and then some photos of my partner and I. Instructions that the faces should not be obvious like in the bad graphic, they should look like rocks, only when you looked at it should they become clear. To the right is that bad graphic first.

But that's not the end to the story, for those of you that can see a third face in the rocks below; that face was not intentionally added by the artist, someone else looking at it while it was drying saw it and pointed it out.

I saw it and thought… well this is part of an email I was writing to thank the artist for this lovely commissioned painting below, when I noticed it:

and the extra face, is weird, definitely a males face, the more I look at it the more it becomes someone I know or knew….those eyes and the nose, the brow… someone…. Kym my partner might know when she sees it, she's better with faces…. Oh my god, I can't believe it, it's my father. Without realising it you have added my dad to my painting.

Oh Georgie, now I'm really crying again, my Dad died before I met Kym, and I always wished he had met her, he would have loved her as much as I do.

And now in this painting, it looks Dad's watching us, oh Georgie, thank you so very very much. I could never pay you it's worth to me now it's even more precious……

So anyway….here is the stunning painting this talented New Zealand artist from Tauranga came up with… I will cherish it forever.

Feel free to take the the picture, just leave the words at the top so you remember how to find out where you can get a commissioned artwork that will be cherished forerver.

Thank you again to you Georgie

By Lynny, who's going to San Deigo to get married on leaving on Monday the 15th of Sept 2008, four sleeps away from now.

Click on the painting, and be taken to the talented artist based in Tauranga, New Zealand that created this wonderful painting

Websites Need SEO or Brochures need reprinting,

Selecting the cheapest possible web site is not advised if your goal is to earn money from your web site. The best way for you to insure that potential clients can find your website is to invest the money needed to have your website optimized for search engines.

Unlike brochure printing, you do not need your entire website rebuilt from scratch each time your company, which offers scenic wildlife tours, must change a facet of its operation.


If you compare the costs of producing a quality brochure, and having a website, even in the short run, a website is less expensive.

To have 50,000 professional brochures designed, printed in color, delivered to you, and distributed through travel agents and tourist information centers would cost somewhere around $15,000-$20,000. The entire cost of this service accrues again and again every six to nine months.

If you spent that much on a professional website, and the very best SEO services, for a site like I'm talking about above, you'd be looking at $12,000 xaximum, and then $5000 a year for hosting, and making changes, maybe even a new look for the site each year as required. Add to that $300 a month for continued seo and you are still way better off to have a website.

Use that time and money to hire a professional website designer, and infuse your site with search optimization strategies, and you can see 10,000 new visitors hitting your site every month after the first six months, and 20,000 unique new visitors within a year, in addition to those who keep coming back.

Making changes to a brochure is expensive, and it must be changed with each new event; a website can be customized on the fly, by yourself, or by someone you hire, at a much lower cost.
The cost of a domain name and web hosting, which are key to keeping a website online, start at approximately $150 per year. Continual re-printing of paper brochures is required. You do your own math.

You can easily make small changes to the web pages as you choose, because we will make sure that you have a CMS if you require one. A photo gallery can be included in the CMS for displaying photos of your work which may interest prospective clients. You could add and subtract photos as you choose. You will be trained on know how to use CMS by us.

Because we are confident in the quality of our website design and services, we offer payment plans where an initial deposit can be placed, followed by monthly payments. Most web designers like to be paid up front or as soon as the website is live.

With our payment plan if you have the extra money, and realize the benefit of site to your business interests, you can then pay off the balance. Because we are confident in the quality of our website design and services, we gladly accept payments.


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SEO is just a big game, and you want to be the winner.

SEO is just a big game, and you want to be the winner.

I have a new SEO client that's thrilled that after his new optimized website has been online for only 5 days, he's #1 for all the keyphrases he wanted to be ranked well for, when we started his site couldn't be found in the first 100 search engine results. This client did his own SEO with my help.

Like I said he's jazzed about being #1 for all these phrases, and I offered to show him, how he could improve the phrases that say at #5 and get them upto #1. He is of course interested to know, and has made an appointment, but his comment was, SEO is just a big game isn't it…. Never have truer words been spoken.

The really good thing about SEO is so few sites have any done, that often only a small investment, will go a long way, unless you are in one of the very high competition businesses. But even then the investment will be more, but the results are well worth it for your business.

SEO is a game, and you want your site to be the winner. Contact me, if you want your site to be the winner…. We'll make it happen.

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Call me multi talented, as well as doing a great SEO job, I also have a heap of other talents, read about them here Gay Friendly graphic designer or check out our Web and graphic designer services pages.

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