Domain Name Choice and Registration
You will need a domain name (ie website name) for your site. You will also need to arrange web hosting - that is 'renting' your little bit of the web where your site sits. Some clients, particularly if they have been through the process before, choose to take their design and deal with domain name registration and web hosting themselves. But for many the prospect can be daunting. Both these services can be organised for you by Waving Moose.
Not sure what you want to be called? We can help you and offer suggestions. We are then able to carry out a domain name search and register on your behalf.
As an added bonus, we offer a .com or .co.uk domain name with all our hosted web sites.
Search Engine Optimisation
At Waving Moose we cannot guarantee the performance of your website and how much business you will get from it. But we will do our best to help you get the most from it. Everybody wants to be at the top of the list in Google and other search engines. That's why not everybody can be! But there are things you can do to help improve your position. This is referred to as SEO - Search Engine Optimisation.
There are numerous companies out there who offer SEO services - and they will charge you appropriately for it! There are also possibilities for paying to generate traffic and improving search engine ranking - eg Google Adwords. At Waving Moose we do our best to give your site a good chance by designing it with optimised content in mind in the first place - including appropriate text content and embedded coding (keywords, meta tags etc.). We will also submit your site for indexing to all major search engines, including Google and Yahoo (this is a helpful step to alert them to your site, although it does not guarantee position).
This is all covered in our design costs.
Read more about SEO in our briefing :
Hellooo... We're Over Here!
Some tips on getting noticed on Search Engines (Search Engine Optimisation - SEO)
And remember, it's not just about web searches, there are lots of ways you can use a good website to publicise your services - we will help you recognise and use these.