Overview: Kwik Claims 4u came to us wanting a rather special lead capture business website design.

Details: They needed a professional and informative website that would have a conservative ‘wow factor’.

Solution: We have provided a full and informative website, with a very fancy image splicer display gallery.

For a UK commercial website to prosper in the search engines in the UK, the website has to basically be “developed” to be discovered and well-received by the search engine algorithm. This process of preparation is called Search engine optimization (SEO). We provide effective website design in the UK as well as SEO.

As the amount of websites grows exponentially, website design UK must improve on it’s quality. Search engines will play a vital role in keeping order on the net. This has encouraged increasing numbers of people looking for specific information to rely on SE’s to a greater extent. It’s a fact that you can find information faster if you use a search engine.

Because of this fact, business websites looking to attract more traffic to their sites will pay for valuable ad space within search results sent by the search engines to browsers. Because browsers are more often than not set on getting information about something, placing an ad that totally dovetails with what they”re looking for makes it easy for the advertiser to make a sale. Local search is also becoming ever more important to many business websites as SEs such as Google are trying to force the display of local search by geo targeting our web browsers and returning the relevant local information. There are mant benefits to having your website design UK based, as well as web hosting.

It’s further believed by many that a business website can increase it ranking in it’s home country (in this example the UK) by having a .co.uk domain and being hosted in the UK also. These ranking factors are however disputed by some but seem logical to others.

What search engine optimisers do then, is to make every effort to make the site reasoned to be highly relevant and show up in the top ten listing of their respective search strings for their keywords. The usual method of SEO is to improve content, and dynamically expand the site with even additional relevant data.

Unfortunately, unprincipled SEO’s have also formulated ways to cheat the algorithms of search engine to keep themselves on top with poor quality and even deceptive or ‘scraped’ content. Google, Yahoo and other search engines such as Bing have opposed this treand by applying more complex algorithms to filter out the junk and refuse out of their engines. The practice of ‘bad seo’ may now get you temporary high rankings – ultimately your rankings will be short lived and often now leading to a search engine ban or delisting. It’s never a good idea therefor to engage in bad SEO practices.

To properly optimise a web page and website, follow the these steps:

1. Optimisation should be part of the design not an second thought. To properly optimise a business website or page, it should be conceived as part of the design process. It shouldn’t be treated as an afterthought. This leads to shoddy workmanship and creates gratuitous strain in the browser looking for relevant data.

2. Each web page must be optimised. Namely, each web page must be unique, with their own content, titles and tags.

3. It’s not a good idea to go over board with SEO either. Don’t create a site specifically for search engines neglecting your site visitors. Most people who kickoff this route create a site that’s ungainly and has bad grammar. Most browsers simply pass over unprofessional sites with poor copy.

4. Keywords. Make certain you’ve a list of keyword terms you want placed in the page and to form part of your over all business website. Also consider that the keywords relevant to page 1 stays in page 1 while page 2 keywords stay in page 2. This is to make certain each page is specific in its offering, avoiding redundant or duplicate content on your business website.

Website design UK

must become high quality if it is to rank highly globally.

If you have your website design UK and SEO attended to by us, we believe that you will have the edge on the competition.

Look what the nice people at website grader said about us today! We don’t like to boast but….here is our website grade.

“The website www.localwebsiteseo.co.uk has a website grade of 62,866 of the 2,522,980 websites that have been ranked so far.

A website grade of 97.5/100 for www.localwebsiteseo.co.uk means that of the millions of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 97.5% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.”

Domain Tools still only ranks us with an : SEO Score:94%

website grade

Website Grade

The reason we have not been awarded a 100% website grade? Only because they both judge us to have far too many images on site!
Their testing metrics are not set up fully to account for images rich sites like us.

You wouldn’t want us to leave off the client case studies of design example now would you? So we will keep them and take the 2.5% hit to our ratings!

Our site is just two months or so old at this point….Think about what we could do for your website and business?

Sarah came to us as although she felt her site was ‘OK’, it wasn’t performing in the search engines. We performed an in-depth keyword and market research analysis and we found the problems.  A whole new CMS (content management system) was installed and we re-designed the website in close consultation with Sarah. We applied full SEO and gave extensive free marketing advise also.

This is what the Children’s Playhouse Company website used to look like before we got to work on it and gave it a website makeover!

The improvements are self evident. With a new CMS, navigation, correct keywords, SEO and lots of added functionality, the new site is set to soar through the search engines. The Children’s Playhouse Company are thrilled with the results of their website makeover and said:

“I did not realise how much I needed the help and advice of Dee from SEO.  I thought I was doing okay with the website I had – I was very much mistaken.  They were great, worked round the clock and the outcome was I have a fantastic website and I have been given great marketing help and expert advice and most importantly advice that I felt I could trust.  I would like to say thank you to you and your team for all your hard work and the help you gave to the Children’s Playhouse Company. I love the

website makeover

”

We are delighted to have helped. We love to work with companies who make quality British products.
We enjoy a good

website makeover!

When you have a business website built for you by Local Website SEO Surrey, what do you get APART from your site you may wonder? Do we offer any free services for clients?

We’ll we really like to go the extra mile for our business clients. We know that you are busy and we know that you need to get your business in front off and found by as many people as possible so we give our free services for clients!

We won’t just build your business site for you, we will also:

• Get you listed in Google Local
• Get you listed in Thompson Directory
• Get you listed in the Yellow Pages
• Get you listed in Yahoo Local!

And what do we charge you for this? As a valued client, nothing at all! All our clients receive this service as standard and free of any charges. Contact Us to find out more about our:

Free Services For Clients

There is no point in simply having a good looking website. We at Surrey Local Website SEO strive to build great looking business websites, with built in SEO and can also offer traffic generation methods and techniques. We like to show what we can do so here is an example of our success. Our site is now around 38 days old and already we are No1 in Yahoo.co.uk. We would love to build or promote your website so you get to No1 on Yahoo also.

View the image below or simply go to Yahoo.co.uk and type in Local Business Surrey Website Design and you will see us right at the very top of the organic search engine listings. We have actually been there for around 10 days but wanted to give it some time to show you that the high ranking that we are able to achieve sticks. What could we do for your business website when we are No1 on Yahoo?

Contact Us to find out.

It’s the 28th of April 2010 and although we have been in business for some time, less than 28 days ago, we finally got around to putting our own web site online! In under 28 days, we are No1 on Google UK and Google worldwide search also.

You can view the screen shots below or simply type ‘local website SEO’ into Google UK and/or Google worldwide. Just think about what we could do for your business and web site? Would you like your business website to be No1 on Google UK for your main keyword?

No1 in Google UK Search Engine.

No1 In Google Worldwide Search Engine.

We have managed to speed up clients sites by more than 75% by simply disabling and unistalling there ‘cache plugins’ using this method. Most people ‘think’ that cache plugins are a great idea- I disagree. Before you start, test you site speed at www.iwebtool.com/speed_test or similar so you can check your results afterwards. You may also like to install Firebug and Y-slow Mozilla Firefox Addons to test your Y-Slow score before and after to speed up your website.

Warning: Back up your site and files and store somewhere safe before attempting any site improvements!

After much testing and tweaking I can report to you that this method of speeding up WordPress and improving Y-Slow score works and works very well to speed up your website!

It is the only method suitable for the novice and the only easy method to apply that I have ever found that is also safe to use on highly dynamic WordPress sites also. Sites that are used more as a CMS with full media, slide shows, multiple plugins and lots of Java script.

I can report that I am yet to find any plugin that this method conflict with either.

Now follow these steps exactly and in order to

speed up your website

!

1. Start by doing a little site maintenance!
Delete any drafts that you don’t want, clean up your tags. Make sure that everything in your WordPress is fully up to date to and that you are using the most up to date version of all your plugins and that you have the latest WP installed. Consider crunching all your images with http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/imageoptimizer/index.php or similar also.

2. Deactivate, uninstall, delete and remove all traces of ANY/EVERY cache plugins that you are using! Refers to plugin authors sites to ensure that you have deleted ever trace of them and their code from your site.

For C-panel Users (and similar)

3. MySQL has a built-in optimize function to clean up wasted space in your tables. It’s particularly effective when you’ve deleted a lot of data (E.G. comments). Don’t be afraid, this is really easy to do! Go into your control panel and look for PHPMyAdmin. Click on it and choose your WP data base. In phpMyAdmin, just select the table, E.G. Comments. Then go to the “Operations” tab, and then click “Optimize Table”. That’s it your done!

4. Now login to your WordPress and Install the following plugins (but do not activate) via your admin:

• WP Database Cache Reloaded
• Optimize Scripts (Yes-I know it says it has not been tested up to the latest version of WP but it works so don’t worry)
• Really Static

5. Activate WP Database Cache Reloaded. Go to the settings page, tick activate and leave it on pre configured settings.
Activate Optimize Scripts and leave it on default settings.
Activate ‘Really Static’ and again, leave it on pre-configured settings. You will need to go to the settings page and add your FTP info and save it. Then, go to settings tab “manual refresh” and choose the option to write all files. This will start to write all your WordPress pages into a folder as static, fast loading pages that will be served up instead of your actual blog pages. If you have a large site, the plugin may timeout before your whole site is copied over. Don’t worry, just select “write all files” again until you get a message saying the plugin has finished copying.

6. Recheck your site to satisfy yourself that everything is working!

7. Ask your host if they have mode_Gzip enabled. (if they don’t – come over to us for hosting as we do!)
If they say yes, ftp into your site and locate your .htaccess file and add this and underneath anything that is already in there:

[<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file \.(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>]

Save file.

If your host says that ‘no’ they don’t, add the following code instead:

[php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler] (remove[] from code)

Save file.

This forces php to compress your php files. (can be resources intensive on the CPU so use with caution)

Your done! Now wait an hour or two (or even until the next day) and go back and test your site speed and Y-Slow score again. The last site I applied this to for a client had a cache installed and the sites scores were:

Page loading time: 17.90
Y-Slow score: ‘F’

After we had finished applying the above;

Page loading time: 0.64
Y-Slow score: ‘B’

Of course there is much more that can be done to improve speed and Y-Slow score but you have to agree that is a dramatic change without even touching so much as a line of the sites code! If this tutorial makes no sense to you at all but you would like to speed up your WordPress site, Contact Us to find out about our services.

Why worry?

Google is now using a site’s speed as part of the algorithm that ranks the order of pages in its search results. Fast sites will rank higher, while slower-loading sites might suffer.

Speed up your website today!

Overview: A client in a hurry contacted us asking if we could produce a simple yet classic authoritative themed web site in just two day as an extremely rush job!

Details: We spoke to the clients and found that although in a hurry, they really needed a CMS system to enable them to apply regular content on the fly themselves. They also need a prime ad spot on-site to promote their new product.

Solution: We spent two days getting a very simple back-end CMS up for them and due to their lack of time, emailed them their instructions for use! We chose a no frills sensible newspaper style theme that looked very good indeed, The site was built for them by our team in 48 hours flat! The clients was pleased and has engaged us to build several more web sites since.

You Can View Our Portfolio Here

Overview: A local plumber rang us recently stating that he didn’t think he needed a web site, but trade had been slow and his better (smarter) other half had been nagging him to get one! He made it clear that he wasn’t terribly interested in having a site at all!

Details: We asked him for some business details expecting to have them emailed to us….when a letter arrived containing several scrap pieces of paper with various notes on them.

Solution: We had little by way of brief .  The clients had paid a deposit and told us “do whatever you think….” so we did. We were surprised at his delight when he saw his site after his previous disinterest. He clicked about on it for ages and confirmed to us that he thought it was “good enough”. He also added “yes, it’s great but doubt it will do me a blind bit off good”. Two weeks later we got a very excited call from him telling us that a contractor had found his site and he had landed a rather big job because of his business web site! He is now a regular client employing us to do SEO for his business site on a monthly basis. He has confirmed that his business has been ‘up’ by 30% every month since.