FAQs

The Search Engine Optimisation, SEO for short, is definitely not just about optimising he search engines, as it’s also about optimising the websites for these search engines. Well, SEO is the one that could help your website rank better in search engines, both major and minor. There are, basically, a good number of ways and even methods of SEO, and some of them are legitimate enough, while the others are limited and considered as the blackhat technique. Keep in mind that these search engines do not really like blackhat SEO, not to mention that the effect of its usage could be somehow disastrous for the website.

Every page of your new site will be coded to be search engine friendly and optimised'. This ensures your website gets the best possible start in the SERP (Search Engine Results Pages) compared with other non optimised sites. We use google approved good ⁄ white hat techniques so you can ensure your site will not be penalised for using sneaky techniques to get onto Google and the others. Go here for extra information on search engine optimisation.

We will get your website added to the main search engines are as part of your package. As standard all sites are submitted to the main search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo on your behalf. You will also be pleased to know we create a Google Local listing for you also so your website appears on the map listing when someone searches for you in your geographic location.

Whether you own a small scale or a larger scale business website, you still need to your website to feature in the search engines for relevant search terms. The higher you rank for these relevant search terms the more website visitors / enquiries and sales you will achieve. For this reason SEO can help you promote your business, all around the world. Our websites are created to be search engine optimised (SEO) as part of the build so you can be assured your website will appear highly for its key search terms.

You certainly can if you know how SEO should be completed or perhaps you have some experience in SEO then this would be ideal. However, not everyone has knowledge of onsite and offsite SEO, there are some website owners that have had bad experiences when they attempted to find 3rd party SEO professionals who claimed to be able to help them with making their website more attractive to the search engines, you will be pleased to know that we can offer the full range of SEO services and have a great track record to show that we know how to produce results for you. We are website design and SEO professionals who would delight in promoting your website so all you need to do is to sit back, relax and enjoy the benefits that you’re getting from our hard work. We will always encourage you to work with us during any SEO project and will provide you with easy to follow guidelines to give your own website a ranking boost.

In general you should be aware of all the Google Webmaster Guidelines when creating and promoting websites, we operate a content first strategy for our SEO programs to ensure you have a valuable 'resource' that offers unique / relevant and interesting content for people needing to find you for information or your services.

Generally the more useful and relevant content you can put on your site the better for your visitors and your search engine placement, but it depends on the goals of your web site. If you run a business website you would include as much information about your products or services that your customers would need to purchase from you. If you are a Photo Gallery perhaps you want your photos to do the talking.

For new websites we would like an initial idea ⁄ outline of what you want to achieve with some example sites that you like the look and function of. We then endeavor to investigate and contact you if there are any other questions, this leaves us to send you an approximate quotation price and time frame for your website.

You will receive a no obligation quote and we will be delighted for you to contact us to ask anything you want to ensure you are happy before committing to your new website design project.

At the end of a website build we don't desert you and encourage you to give us feedback about your site and we discuss it's Search Engine positioning with you. Any minor amendments or content changes ⁄ updates are carried out to the site free of charge as part of our agreement. We believe that we stand out in this aspect as most companies charge for updates after the first few months.

We can do it either way, you can create your content and we use it to put on your new website pages or we can agree what pages and topics need web-copy (text content for your website) and we have people who specialise in that part of website-development. We will go away and create a draft document for your inspection then after you proof read and agree it we will put this on your site.

Its important to state that this process has proved to be very popular and having unique, relevant and interesting content that has a high flesch ranking grade will go a long way to help your website rank highly in it specific sector for important keywords ⁄ search terms.

Once the website has been build and put live it should attract more links and rise in the search engine rankings naturally over the years, therefore its going to be an asset of your business that will continue to deliver 'free' advertising. After the first year you will only pay a hosting fee (approximately £3 per month) to keep your website live, compare this with the advertising rates in Yellow pages and the Phone book where half page adverts cost £2000 or £3000. Sure you will agree this sounds an attractive advertising proposition.

We don't normally recommend this as It's part of our service for us to take care of that for you. Along with it being part of the service the packages include the domain and hosting (for the first year) by default. We look after your domain / website / hosting / email and manage them for you.

Most people simply refer to the domain as the 'website' so www.delicious-webdesign.com is our domain name. A Domain name is a series of characters that is used to identify one or more IP addresses. They provide convenient alternatives to IP addresses, which are complex and would be difficult to remember. They work pretty much like street addresses. A domain name may refer to a specific business, organization, person, idea or anything else. It directs people to the website, which will help you make a lasting impression of your business / brand on the Internet.

An IP Address is the actual address of an individual computer, server, or network on the internet. It is a difficult-to-remember string of numbers such as 95.128.131.18, IP address takes you to a specific point on the internet. Domain names can be mapped to IP addresses so you will never need to remember your IP Address but only your Domain name / Website name.

Once you enter a domain name in the browser address bar, the browser requests the nameservers to identify the IP address associated with the domain name. Then, you will be taken to the IP address, where the website for the domain name is located.

Nameservers are record-keepers. They keep records of all the domain names and their associated IP addresses. They help your visitors come to your website by typing easy-to-remember domain names, rather than the complex IP addresses.

Web hosting is an essential service for website owners that allows you to publish your website for the world to see. Your webhost is where you upload all your website’s data (code, documents, images and databases) such as html, css, documents, and so on, so that your visitors can access them from anywhere in the world. Hosting invokes a fee and is normally charged along with the domain renewal on a 1 or 2 yearly basis.

Normally we take care of this aspect of the website design / development process for you. Our control panel makes it very easy to set up your website. Using the login and FTP details that we create for you its possible that we can set up the website (install database / code for a holding page) in as little as 15-20 minutes. If you need any help, our support team will always be ready to help you with the process.

People often ask us 'How do I choose a hosting plan?' and 'Will the hosting be adequate?' Our standard hosting plans come as part of our packages and are sufficient for 98% of standard business websites, we have the capacity and are flexible enough to be able to offer you as much speed / bandwidth / space as you need. To determine what you need we need a clear idea of what you want to do with your website. Do you have a large website, or will upload lots of images and documents? Then you need a hosting plan with a large disk space. If you expect a large number of visitors, then you need a hosting plan with higher bandwidth. It is always better if you keep room for growth, whether it is in terms of web traffic or space requirements.

This is something you don't need to worry about, unless you have an existing website written specifically for Windows Server we will generally host your website on a Fast Linux Server. Web hosting servers generally run on either Windows or Linux operating system. Your choice of OS for web hosting should not depend on your choice of OS for your computer. When it comes to web hosting, both OS have vastly different features and characteristics. Understand what your website requirements are, check which OS supports them, and buy that hosting service. We have multiple hosting options on Windows and Linux Servers to enable us great flexibility.

Of course. Our hosting is flexible and we will give you the best advice about this if you have more than one domain. If you want more than one on the same account, this could be limiting for future development so we generally have one domain per hosting account. While some hosting plans do support more than 1 website, it is quite normal for hosting plans to support only 1 website. If your hosting plan does not support more websites, then you have to buy a different hosting plan for each website.

Typically you will have access to a Content Management System that gives you a dashboard or control panel that you will be able to use to upload media like documents and images to your your webspace on your server as your own hosting account Its possible to give you code that allows you to do this manually (but unusual) so you can do this manually within your hosting control panel where you will find a File Manager with an upload function. Alternatively you can also upload your files using an FTP client such as FileZilla or SmartFTP. Some people are concerned about how long it takes to upload their website files to a hosting server? As we have a fast server its normally fast but depending on the size of your website files and your own connection speed it can take between a few seconds and a couple of hours. For most website file transfers for images files it takes less than 5 seconds.