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Hello Mozzers,
I just launched a website for one of my clients and one of the update requests they had was to add the first link in the navigation again when the navigation drops down.
Here is an example of the navigation now: http://screencast.com/t/K6ooX0I9pe
For example, they would want "About" showing up again, they want this for every navigation item.
I know this wouldn't be right. How would you respond to them?
Around $500 for now. The project I am working on is a family one so I didn't charge them nearly as much as I normally would.
Any insight on the design contests? They seem interesting.
Very good points, I will take everything you said into consideration when going into this web development project.
I have had some experience doing this, like when shooting a video, I find an intern at a local TV station who has access to nice equipment and have them shoot some video for me, it worked out great!
I like the reminder!
This is so true and what makes this designer recruitment process even harder. Finding that balance and even someone that is near my area that is good.
Hi everyone,
I am looking for find high quality web designers that are affordable. I am open to many options.
There are several things I have looked into.
1. I have looked for designers via CSS galleries, but I don't really know how to get in touch with designers or find them. Rand recently talked about this in a webinar, but if anyone has specific insights on how to find people this way, please let me know.
2. I have also looked into website design contests from sites such as:
I haven't used these services and I was wondering if anyone has experience with design contests.
3. I have looked into the option of hiring a freelancer on oDesk or a similar freelancer site. I don't really know the cost, how to find a good designer, how to avoid inexperienced but cheap designers and all the other such roadblocks that come along with freelancers.
If anyone could provide insight into this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Glad I could help! Let me know if you have any other questions.
Email the SEOmoz staff. You can find the help desk here. That is where you will find the "actual" answer you are looking for.
I haven't experienced them before, but their average review when you type in "Blurbpoint Review" on Google is around 3 to 3.5 stars. I have seen their ads on Facebook and such. Just trying giving them a call. My typical saying is: "If its too good to be true, it probably is."
That's my opinion. Take it for what its worth.
Hope that helps.
You've already invested in the domains, my as well leverage them. What these would be good for is to rank for the "exact matches" as exact match domains still to this date do well in the SERPs. I would hire a Filipino or someone for around $200 USD/month. Train them a little bit, then let them install wordpress, maintain the sites, build backlinks, etc. This would be my suggestion for the domain usage. You can also most likely buy more IPs from your hosting provider. So in essence, just try and get these sites ranked for the exact match terms and funnel the people to your "money site". Lastly, if you are really worried about the "spammy" look, add "nofollow" to the links.
You can use the search line on Google: site:www.example.com
This will tell you what Google has indexed on the site.
If you are looking for a specific sub-folder, then use: site:www.example.com/forum
Hope that helps.
Have you thought about incorporating video into your message. This is a great way to keep the visitor on the site and have them do what you want them to do, like fill out a form, go to another page, etc. Video combined with autoplay, works great. After seeing many tests done on autoplay, it actually works. Anyways, suggesting that you add video was a bit off topic, but I thought I'd suggest it.
Here is the Google training for Google Analytics. Take a look at this link: http://www.google.com/analytics/education.html
I would go and test this yourself. Go on to Google, log out of your Google account, then type in your search phrase and add: &pws=0 to the end of the URL and hit enter. This will remove any customized results for you and will help you determine the accuracy of the results of the two trackers.
Hi Mike,
I would say go for it. What this sounds like is three-way linking right? Three-way linking will give you a non traceable link profile which will add additional benefits. The automation part may be difficult, but could work. I'd recommend communicating directly with the webmasters though as it may be against TOS of the reciprocal link networks / systems.
Let me know what you think.
Google doesn't like "cloaking" type things, showing them different stuff than you show the users will get you penalized. Don't do it.
Email the SEOmoz staff. You can find the help desk here. That is where you will find the "actual" answer you are looking for.
If you don't want it to be discovered by the search engines cause it has too many links and such, block it with the robots.txt. It will still obviously be visible to the users on the site, but the search engines won't crawl it and possibly penalize it.
