WordPress Websites that are SEO-friendly, Quick & Secure

1. Identify your specific needs

The first step in any web design project is to learn about your site’s specific goals. We take time to learn about your business, and carefully plan a strategy to create a site which is perfect for your needs.

We start by asking the following questions:

• Please provide a couple sites (they can be competitors or not) that you like and tell us what you like about them?
• Is your site’s main objective to teach, sell or entertain?
• Who is your site’s target audience and what do they expect to find on your site?

2. Define project scope

Once we know your site’s goals, we move on to the project scope phase of planning.

In this step, we carefully consider the development project as a whole, and go over the following:

• What pages do you need? (e.g. homepage, about, contact, services, etc.)
• Do you have brand guidelines to follow or need to create them from the ground up?
• What photos and visual elements do you want to use?
• How about text content for pages?
• What additional features do you need on your site? (e.g. contact forms, Calls To Action, email newsletter integration, etc.).

3. Recommendations and overview

Once we know all the details of your project, we will come up with specific recommendations and provide you with an outline of your new website. This step is crucial, so you will know exactly what is included and what kind of timeframe is to be expected.

4. We build your site

We carefully craft your new site using the answers you provided in the beginning. Not only are our sites designed to look and function well, but they are carefully created to drive traffic and convert. We will build your new site on a temporary URL to avoid downtime.

5. Site review and testing

Once we have finished your website, we will have a call and go over it in detail. We will make note of any changes you might want, and promptly make them. We will ensure that the site works well on all browsers and devices, including desktops/laptops, tablets and smartphones. Once the site is complete, we will move it to the proper URL and officially launch your site.

Extra services included

Not only do we design your site and get it ready for launch, but we set it up so that it is optimized for SEO, speed and security. We strongly believe in offering our clients added value, so you get everything below included in our WordPress web development at NO ADDITIONAL COST.

• Install and configure must-have plugins for SEO, speed and security.
• Create and install a robots.txt file to help search engine spiders index your site.
• Optimize URL structure (permalinks) for optimum SEO performance.
• Create an XML Sitemap and submit your site to Google and Bing.
• Setup spam protection to prevent comment spam.
• Basic documentation about how to optimize new posts and pages for SEO.