Search Engine Rankings?
Posted by Thomas | Posted in questions | Posted on 10-09-2009
Tags: Engine, Rankings, Search
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I currently own a webpage design business and help numerous businesses on their websites, I notice that the websites I help design some are ranked quite high on search engines, I notice the rankings will go back and forth, question is if I loose rankings on a particular business that I am helping out on a website but then they loose their rankings, am I to blame? I almost feel that there is times when theres no control over where the rankings are, a way I can have control over that?
You have some control but not complete control.
Optimizing a website for the search engines is in two logical parts; on-page optimization and off-page optimization.
On-page is everything that is done on the website’s pages to improve search engine rankings and off-page is everything else, like obtaining inbound links for example.
As a web designer you can control on-page factors but not off-page factors.
Very few designers know even the basics of search engine optimization and if you were to study it for a while your clients will benefit substantially and hence so will your business
Start with this excellent tutorial http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php and by the end you will be providing your clients with a lot more!