Does Your Custom Designed Website Template Include SEO Tags?
• You’ve Paid Good Money For A Custom Designed Website Template …
And There Are NO SEO Tags In The Template’s Coding! •
OK, I had to stop what I was doing this morning (working on a mini-site for a new client) and write this post. I am astounded gang! Really … astounded. Why? I’ll tell you …
While doing research on the competition to my client’s niche, I was of course clicking on the competitors sites. Often, if I see a design I like, I’ll click on the designers link too, just to check them out. In addition, I am paying close attention to the search engine optimization of the competitors sites.
What made me stop to write this post is this … I found a particularly pleasantly designed site that was 100% missing the SEO of the Title tags and Description META tags on every page. (I find it amazing in today’s world of internet marketing, that a site designer could be ignorant of the need to include the HTML coded tags for optimization of the pages!)
Since There Was A Link At The Bottom Of The Pages For The Designer, I Clicked On It …
I was taken to a website boasting of the “fantastic” templates you could have designed for you, for a mere $199.00. OK … that’s darn reasonable, BUT!! How could these designers overlook the simple insertion of the Title and Description tags in the template’s coding?
I guess once more the statement “you get what you pay for” holds true! lol
Egads! I’m going to say it again … in this day and age, how can anyone who claims to be a website designer not be aware of the proper coding needed in the HEAD section of the template? Come on! This is 2008, not 1998!
Well, once again everybody, my words of support continue to hold true to those of you who do pay attention to even the most basic steps of search engine optimization on your site. You WILL be ahead of 90% of the rest of your competition through the attention to SEO.
You know, I come across too many poor floundering sites every day during my SEO research. It really pains me at times when I find another sad site. Normally, just by looking at the content and presentation, I can tell it is a very sincere person trying to be an internet marketer. But they’re limping horribly with a totally unoptimized site. I have to sigh, as I wonder how long it will be before either: (a) they give up (because they have no online presence); or (b) hopefully, the light goes on and they realize they are in desperate need of SEO attention.
Oh well … I’d better get back to my client’s site. And with a smile on my face, I know that by the time I am done putting my SEO magic to it, this client will be leading in the top-ten organic rankings in the very near future.
