Do They Practice What They Preach?
Hopefully, if you’re making a decision on re-designing or building a new website for your company at least one of the criteria for selecting an agency is; 1. “Doe's the agency’s own web site reflect the same kind of results that are being proposed for your new website?" In other words, doe's the website design company or agency practice what they preach?
So many times we see companies bypass this most important phase of selection because they get launched right into the “bid selection process” maybe due to eager website designers. Before you know it they have multiple bids which don’t necessarily reflect an “apple to apple” comparison. More times than not, they find themselves trying to make an apple to ocean liner comparison for the project. Once thoroughly confused….they either put the project on hold or they make a decision based on budget or price. This is all done fairly quickly without even thoroughly evaluating the design company or the website that markets their website design firm.
Anymore, if you’re not basing at least part of your decision on the agencies past history, results of their clients and/or the visibility and current success of their own site, you’re probably taking a big unnecessary risk.
When evaluating your potential partners take a look at this third party service and check out how well their site stacks up. 1-100 score. It may help you in this area of your decision making process.
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Thanks for this nice post...
Was this a spun article post?
The reason I ask is you've misspelled "Does" and you used the word "Anymore" instead of "Anyway" or something of that nature. I don't know who in the world would use "Anymore" as a preposition anymore.
Plus, within the same sentence, you are mentioning "web site" and "website"... which is it? I understand it's only a blog post, but either you've hired a really bad article writer from a non-primary English speaking/writing country or just someone that just can't write.
Nothing against them, I've employed some myself and very impressed with their work, but the punctuation and grammar here is really poor.
If this is written in-house and the person claims to have a Bachelor's Degree in English, you might want to check that.
As for the Website Grader advice - that's only part of the equation. I mean, if I provided everything that the program is filtering and stayed within the limits using nothing but the word "fart" I could still get a high score.
What people should also be considering is the structure of their on-page optimization. If they can't optimize themselves, they can't optimize for others.
I'm sorry for being a bit harsh, but I expected a bit more (actually, a lot) out of you guys. I look up to you guys and hate to read a blog entry as lame as this one. Of all people, you guys should know to separate your paragraphs so it's not all bunched up like it is in paragraph 2.