Chicago SEO - Website Design and Promotion
Konrad A. Kociszewski is a freelance web designer and online marketer of business websites in Chicago, Illinois. His specialty is design and development of SEO optimized websites in Chicago for start-up businesses. Konrad will make sure that your Chicago business website is visually appealing and has good ranking in Google and other search engines.
Konrad believes in value-driven project leadership, customer satisfaction, and holds true to his mission statement:
"To provide value to businesses in Chicago and Chicagoland area, through a clean, eye-catching web design, and through effective online Marketing and Search Engine Optimization."
Why Do I Need a Website?
Nowadays, it is considered essential for a business to have its own website, and everybody seems to want one. But having a business website is not an end in itself. Web presence is only a tool. Company's web page exists mostly for one purpose, creating wealth for the owner, or the shareholders. A website may be generating business leads (business development), selling actual products online, or just tapping the broad internet audience to introduce the company's name and create brand-awareness, but all those activities are aimed at the same ultimate goal. This goal, as mentioned before, is making money for your business.
For that goal to be reached online your website needs a clean design, it has to be aesthetically appealing to your visitors and must provide them with useful content.
This requires a quality web design and copywriting, but will not be enough for a successful web endeavor. Even the greatest looking website will not generate business if nobody sees it. For visitors to find your website, it has to be promoted, and needs to rank well in Search Engine Results Pages (SERP). This can be achieved through effective eMarketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This services, as well as Web Design and Development, are what Konrad specializes in.
You can view the complete services list by viewing the web design service page, and see some samples of Konrad's work on his Web Design and SEO Portfolio Page and by checking out his Chicago SEO Freelance page. If you are interested in those services and would like to more know, or get a quote, please leave a message by using the contact page.
How Do I Drive Traffic to my Website?
There are several activities that you might undertake to drive traffic to your website, such as:
- Search Engine Optimization - SEO
- Pay-Per-Click - PPC
- Email Marketing - Email Blasts
- Blogging
- Article Announcing
- Social Media Marketing
All this activities may be broadly categorized as Internet Marketing. Depending on the size of your website and the amount of time you can devote to it, you can choose one of the two options. You can either do some research and do everything yourself, or you may decide to elect to have a professional do it for you.
If you want to learn and do it yourself, please feel free to browse through my SEO Guide or get in touch with me for a free (no obligation) consultation over the phone or email. Paid consultations face-to-face are also available.
Any quick SEO tips?
What it all comes down to, is that to rank high in the search engines and get a lot of traffic, you have to create unique and interesting content that people would like to see. The key word here is the content. You need something that will distinguish your website from your competition. Next you will have to ensure that there are enough links from other websites to drive initial traffic to your website. If your visitors like what they see, they will come back for more (remember to regularly update your website) and will refer yo to their families and friends through word of mouth, emails, social bookmarking entries, links, etc. You might supplement that with some other internet marketing activities, such as pay-per-click and email blasts, and if you do everything right, you will achieve recognition for you website.
