[glennmid101]

It has occured to me, and i might be wrong, wouldn't it be a good idea for people who build websites, and the SEO boffins to form alliances.

I think, as part of a sales pitch for a website designer, to tell people, as well as the functionality of the website, any site would be good to go, SEO, so to speak.

Interested in people's thoughts.

[moonlighterUK]

Good idea for those that lack the skills in the respective areas.

[glennmid101]

I appreciate, some people do it all ready, and not having a pop at them.

[Alvin]

Good idea but rarely seems to happen except when both are inhouse.

Afraid SEO's are greedy buggers,owing to business's success often being down to there work.

Alvin

[glennmid101]

You stalking me alvin lol.

Well it occured to me, it would be a great sales pitch for web designers.

I take your point about the seo, and i am presuming, they wont agree with your analysis.

You could say, that the seo pick up the mess.

glenn

[Alvin]

well your right it would be a great sales pitch,but it rarely happens that a web design company has a top class SEO inhouse.


Most of the top guys are independants,and the best do not have to advertise for work to sell there snake skin oil , and are very chosy about what type of project they work on.

Alvin

[Venka]

We are currently re-doing our site, our web design agency does have basic knowledge of SEO but I have hired the services of an independent SEO consultant.

I do often put in suggestions for SEO purposes and sometimes the designer does get annoyed with me, saying the final brief did state it had to be a very user-friendly, nice looking site, not optimised for SEO purposes. I stated a user-friendly beautiful site is not much use if visitors cannot find yours site in the first place.

It did go very quiet for a while, but I think they got the point!

[MSC]

Originally Posted by Venka

We are currently re-doing our site, our web design agency does have basic knowledge of SEO but I have hired the services of an independent SEO consultant.

I do often put in suggestions for SEO purposes and sometimes the designer does get annoyed with me, saying the final brief did state it had to be a very user-friendly, nice looking site, not optimised for SEO purposes. I stated a user-friendly beautiful site is not much use if visitors cannot find yours site in the first place.

It did go very quiet for a while, but I think they got the point!

I thought that good SEO is also good for the web visitors?

I agree with the OP and good web design these days needs to include at least a basic amount of SEO, to benefit both the business and web users.

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by MSC

I thought that good SEO is also good for the web visitors?

I agree with the OP and good web design these days needs to include at least a basic amount of SEO, to benefit both the business and web users.

I would go a bit further ,in most cases without good SEO,you have probably wasted your money.

Alvin

[An Oasis]

Should have been the only way to work years ago. I'm still surprised that the 2 are thought of as stand alone disciplines, would not touch one without the other.