Its outrageous the prices some people charge for a simple web design in Perth!

If you have phoned a few web design companies lately to see what a simple 5-10 page website will cost, you will come away stunned and amazed..

It sometimes feel the average small business owner in Perth will have to mortgage the family home and then sell the wife and kids just to raise the money to get a half decent looking website for their small business.

It doesn't have to be that way!

Shop around there are plenty of low cost web developers around, but let me give you 5 things to watch out for when choosing a low cost web developer.

1. Ask if they have any testimonials (with phone numbers) about their recent work, and actually phone them up and ask them what they think

2. Ask them how many of their recent websites are in the first 2 pages of Google and Yahoo. If the can't show you this, then avoid them like a plague becuase the know nothing about SEO

3. Ask them to give you an idea of what advice they will give you on how to promote your business once it up and running.Most people think that once a site is up, the search engines will "magicallly" find it and rank it #1 .. NOT !!!

To make a website rank takes time, effort and knowlege.. 99% of web designers are graphic artists that have learnt how to make a website.. Sure they can make awesome looking websites, but they are so poorly put together they never get off page 55 of the search engine results..

4. Will they make the time to come out to your business, find out how your business works and tailor make a website for your business, or will it be another FREE template they downloaded off the web and after making you a few "teaks" and changes want to charge you a chunk of money..

5. Are they local? If not, getting support from them when you want to make simple change can be costly and mis-understandings rapidly develop..

So rate your next web application firms details agains the list above and see how they perform. Remember not all web developers are equal..

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Is simple and its obvious when you find out, but simply write more content on your website about the topic your web visitors are looking for.

Identify the keywords they are using and then make sure those words appear in the text you write. Its that simple!!