Search Engine Optimization service

A basic Search Engine Optimization is included in our
R200 per page web design price.






What can you do?
Scroll down to view free do-it-yourself for free SEO tips.

What is SEO? It stands for Search Engine Optimization.

SEO means that your website is designed and marketed in such a way that it is more easily found by search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and a multitude of others.
This means that people searching for the kind of product or service your business provides, will find you more easily on the first few pages of the search engine results.

When you are searching for a product, or service, or information on the internet, how many pages do you look through? It's usually only the first few pages. This is where you want your business to be.

View Google rankings of webs designed by TnT

What is the point of having a website if nobody can find it?

Why would anyone want to use our web design service if webs we design are not easily found? - or if we don't offer free advice on increasing quality traffic to your site?


What does our basic SEO here at TnT Web Design include?
  • We make this very page available for you to read through, and advise that you follow the tips here.

  • We edit content you supply us for your web design, if necessary, to ensure excellent content and keyword compatibility.

  • We pay meticulous attention to the meta description and meta keyword tagging of your website.

  • We insert search engine robot crawl instructions into the coding of your website.

  • We use Submitexpress to submit your site to 40 search engines, which includes Google.

    Submitting your site to search engines helps speed up the process of the search engines' awareness that your site exists on the internet. Not submitting your site delays this process.

    By typing in "free search engine submission" on Google, you can find many sites where you can submit your site to search engines for free, yourself.
    A warning to our web design clients: We submit your site for you. Repeated submissions, less than a month apart, to the same search engines may result in you receiving a spam warning, or a search engine no longer indexing your website.

  • We use Submitexpress to analyse the meta tag coding of your website.


Please note: The above basic SEO service is included in our R200 per page web design price.

View Website design, and hosting services to see what else is included in our R200 per page design price.

No, this is not a special price. It is our standard all-inclusive web design price. There will be no price increase before 2010.


What can you do?

  • You want traffic (visitors) to your site, and it is in your best interest that you advertise the link to your website wherever you can, and as often as you can, through both usual advertising media, and online advertising.

  • Speak to your clients and suppliers - anyone that has something to do with your business - and suggest a link exchange.

    What is a link exchange? It is when a link to somebody else's website appears on yours, and vice-versa.
    Make sure the sites you swop links with are quality sites that are not overloaded with links to every place under the sun, that have very little to do with what your business is about, as this could do more harm to your own site, than good.
    Try and arrange this before your website designed by us goes live, as alterations to a website are charged for after the free first 7 days.

  • Send an email to everyone you know, friends, family and business aquaintances, to let them know your new website is up and running.
    This not only helps start the flow of traffic to your site that it needs, but also gives you an opportunity to ask them what they think of the site, and if you feel any alterations are required, you can submit them before the 7 days for free alterations is over.

  • Make use of backlinks wherever you can. What is a backlink? A backlink is another term used to name a link that is incoming to your site - you don't necessarily have to have an outgoing link to those sites too, so it's different from a link exchange.
    Backlinks can make a huge difference in your findability on the internet.

  • Make free use of a keyword meta tag analyser like on Submitexpress to check the quality of a website page keyword tagging, and discuss the results with your website designer.

    If having a website designed by us, meta tag analysing, and implementation of the results, is done, once, at no extra charge, at the time of designing your website.

  • Many many online classifieds are free, and we suggest you submit an ad to many of them. The more the merrier, but the following ones really often rank high when various search words are typed in:

    Ectourism (Eastern Cape area only)
    Easyinfo
    Vottle
    Locanto
    Gumtree
    Hotfrog

    Besides making sure to advertise on most or all of the above free classifieds, here is a worthwhile project for you to undertake:

    On Google South Africa, type in a search word or search phrase pertaining to your business product, service, or location. You want to advertise on whichever free online classifieds come up in the results.

    Repeat the whole process for another keyword or key phrase, as different online classified results may come up each time.

    Be sure to update or refresh the adverts at least once a month.

    You can use the same method for finding blogs to visit, where you can comment on posts and leave a link back to your website. Make sure to leave a fairly lengthy comment and be polite. Leaving comments and your link on blogs that have similar content to your website or blog, and that are easily found for the search words you also want to be easily found for, is a good method of SEO not to be overlooked.

  • Other methods to help you gain more traffic include submitting your site and business details to online business directories.

    Join and participate in forums related to your line of business. An excellent, helpful forum for both website designers and website owners is Website Babble

    Join business networking communities such as My Genius



All of the above basic SEO procedures are what we also use for our own website. On Google South Africa, type in "web design east london" and see if we're there!

There's a lot for you to start doing regards increasing your website traffic and findability. Get started!

Always remember that the internet is huge. And most of the time there are thousands of businesses similar to yours in one way or another.

Please note there is a NEVER A GUARANTEE that you will appear on first page search results, but efforts can be made to increase your chances.

If your competitors websites have similar content to yours, and are getting the same amount of traffic as yours, you need to improve your SEO.

In the same way, if your competitors have used similar SEO methods, and have similar content to you, you need to increase your traffic.

Good luck!


Terry and Tony
TnT Web Design

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