News Source: http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Published: Aug 08, 2007 - 08:00 am
Story Found By: onreact 1754 Days ago
Category: Usability
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News Source: http://seo2.0.onreact.com
Published: Aug 08, 2007 - 08:00 am
Story Found By: onreact 1754 Days ago
Category: Usability
17 Comments
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Just don’t look at my site :) Seriously, one other thing to consider. Sometimes companies that are so busy working for others don’t have time to punch up their own sites. When I first started in web development, we had a dry spell, so I spent a lot of time fixing up the site. When we were busy, it became and afterthought. So you could argue that a bad site might indicate a busy firm :)
Well indeed that’s the case with me and my own site that has barely any "design" at all. On the other hand: Once you are really successful you earn enough money to take a time out or pay someone to create a great site.
Go on... I’ve got to nominate mine for the least optimised and least work done on it category!
Couldn’t agree more with Danny. We’ve been trying to find the time to update and, hell, maybe even optimise our own website for close to a year. One of these days...
Now how many of those listed had bought the templates :)
we just redesigned - and have put a site live that I’m less than thrilled with because our designers got too busy to work on un-billable stuff. We’re working on it bit by bit and it is easier to work on than the old site. I’m working on a new color scheme, blue and tan just plain suck - but i dont think my first choice, pink white and lime green are going to fly. The optimization is partially done, maybe if I spent less time at sphinn I’d have more time to optimize pages. :)
I may be biased but how could you leave the ACS site off that list... acsseo.com
Thanks for adding Fathom SEO to your list. I’m curious, how many sites you reviewed in preparation for this blog post?
Cameron’s right. ACS should be at the top of any SEO design list. I’d visit it even if the content was crap. :-)
*cough*SEOmoz*cough*
DJLitten, I collected them over the course of 17 months I think, so I did not keep track of all sites "reviewed". And yes indeed ACS looks pleasing, I was to fixated on their blog to see their site... More suggestions? squishee: After the redesign SEOmoz is very difficult to look at...
Danny may be onto something in his first comment. After all, the shoemaker’s children go barefoot.
Thanks for the props, onreact. Glad to see our site (netconcepts.com) made the list. In response to khilley’s question, Netconcepts.com is not a template. Despite this fact, some companies have chosen to "borrow" our site design AS IF it were a template! Check this out... http://web.archive.org/web/20050205010824/www.hummingbird.com/ Compare with our site at the time: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.netconcepts.com Hmm... Here’s another blatant one: http://web.archive.org/web/20050507053310/http://www.philipsdata.com/
Too bad our new design is about a week away from implementation. But here’s a nice home page preview (placeholder text of course): http://tinyurl.com/2rcqcn
Although I`m still rebuilding and updating from the old layout/ design I`ll post my link: http://www.jabz.biz/
I paid someone else to design my website though I carried out the optimisation, link building and content creation. Has it been worth it? Definitely in some cases I am getting 2 to 3 enquiries an hour... not bad for a "one man band". It did take quite some time planning what was going to be written and not all went exactly to plan but to say I am satisfied is an understatement. I managed the project by treating the requirements as an external client project and scheduling it in as I would any other job (and then sticking to it!)
As a site developer, I’m a bit biased, but I think ukdaz is on the right track. If you don’t have time to do a good job (even if you have the talent), you’re better off outsourcing it. After all, that’s what you’re asking your potential clients to do. :) (Of course, I need to take my own advice and get some work done on my sites!)