Teamed up with a London based marketing agency to assist them in migrating a static site to a WordPress powered contemporary effort. The static site had scores of pages, in both classic ASP and PHP, and were each given a 301 redirect.
Teamed up with a London based marketing agency to assist them in migrating a static site to a WordPress powered contemporary effort. The static site had scores of pages, in both classic ASP and PHP, and were each given a 301 redirect.
London based art gallery, and Damien Hirst specialist, Roman Black Gallery, treated itself to an overhaul, both in terms of design and content structure. Given the bespoke nature of the galleries and the fact that the site would be handling a lot of images, Drupal was choosed as a CMS, in favour of WordPress.
Whipped up version two of a site for the guys at Nova Forca. Along with a new design, the site moves up to the much improved WordPress 3.
Surrey and London based fight sports club, Nova Forca, extended its website with an ecommerce system to perform online sales of casual MMA clothing and fight wear.
Search engine knowledge base specialist, SEOmoz, provides an excellent round up of the factors that impact a website’s search engine ranking. An international host of industry experts are polled, which results in some intersting findings.
Nova Forca are a successful BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) and MMA house based in Surrey and with operations in London. Their existing site was treated to a redesign and a content management system (CMS) to allow staff members to performs updates, blog posts, and upload galleries. The CMS has put them in charge of their content and encouraged them to post more articles, which among other good points, benefits search engine optimization (SEO).
November 2008 saw Google release a very readable best practices SEO guide. According to their Webmaster Central Blog, it was compiled so that “teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow and improve their sites’ crawlability and indexing.”
A brief SEO primer….
Put simply, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the quality and content of a website in order to drive more traffic to it from search engines, through natural (or organic) search results.