Welcome to the Website and SEO Planning Guide by VWD-CMS

Featured Articles:

Website Planning ROI

"The return on investment (ROI) for the hours that you spend planning your website project will be in the form of weeks of saved effort and expense..."
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Monetize Your Site

"The key to generating revenue on your site is traffic... If you don't have a steady flow of visitors on your site every month, then you will not be able to rely on it as a source of revenue ..."
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Web Page Title

"The title of your web pages is critical to a good placement in the search results on Google... Your page titles should be fairly short and as specific as possible..."
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Page Content & Focus

"The more focused a web page is on a specific subject, the more likely it is get first page search results on Google... Serious PageRank improvements!..."
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Ad Revenue

"Improve your chances of getting advertising contracts in the future... What you want is lots of traffic... more information about your members ... the more attractive you are to advertisers..."
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Requirements Analysis

"You want a website that is making money... but you need a specification... single most important aspect... determine the success of the website project..."
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Google PageRank

"The day you turn on your website, you have a PageRank of 0/10... PageRank is just a big popularity contest... The key to building page rank is having great content..."
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Business Needs

"Prioritize your company's reasons for building a website... Integrate your online strategy with your business plan... Identify features that accomplish your business goals..."
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More Articles to Help You Plan and Improve Your Site:

Upcoming Articles:

SEO for Google
Search Terms
Keywords
Page Layout and HTML
Meta Tags
Promoting Your Site
Web Design
Your Audience
Browser Support
Flash & Animations
SEO Site Template
Project & Budget
How Much to Spend
Recuperate Investment
Fixed Bid vs. Hourly
Scope Creep
Estimating Cost
Requesting Estimates
Contracts & Licensing
Project Schedule
Getting Online
Hosting
Design Templates
Server Platforms
Content Management
Project Oversight
Design Reviews
Status Updates
Testing

About the Website and SEO Planning Guide

The Website and SEO Planning Guide is a series of articles written for business owners and a non-technical audience with the focus on identifying the steps involved in successfully completing a website development project. This series of informative and detailed articles is dedicated to helping small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) get the most out of their professional business website projects.

Designing and building a website is hard enough already, but if you want to make it known to everyone on the internet, you're up for another challenge - search engine optimization. Getting your web pages optimized is not easy, it takes a lot of work, but it shouldn't be guess-work.

Many people are unsure about what it takes to get a website indexed and showing up in organic searches on Google. In these SEO articles you will find the information needed to make your web pages get first page search results. If you find that you need some help along the way, please consider using my website programming and SEO consulting services.

Having an effective and search engine friendly content management system will make your life as a webmaster or copy writer much easier. VWD-CMS is an ideal content management system for ASP.NET sites because it makes SEO easier by giving you more control over your website.

The articles in the Website and SEO Planning Guide are a way of sharing some of my knowledge and experience with other website owners and small business owners who are pursuing the dream of owning and operating a successful small business.

The Website and SEO Planning Guide started out as a number of somewhat unrelated articles on various strategies and techniques for getting a website online and promoting it via search engines like Google and Yahoo. It then became clear to me that organizing the information into one comprehensive series with coherent a flow, and a step by step process, would help business owners connect all of the individual tasks and considerations of building and operating a professional business website.

I hope that the information in the Website and SEO Planning Guide is helpful. If you have suggestions on how to make it better, please feel free to contact me.