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Do website designers usually provide SEO services as part of the design process or is it a separate service?

If SEO services are a separate service, what is the usuall rate for these servicces?

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1. This is usually done as an extra, another way to make more money. Charges vary significantly, whatever you can get away with.
2. Dear Jim With all the respect for david i am not agree with him at all. Its not part of web design at all as its really time consuming and the price is normally based on your phrases. As an example the price for keywords like: "Web marketing" or "web design" is much more than phrases like "bournemouth web design" You can have some basic seo in your design but its not all. Before you start your web design you need to know the phrases that you want to focus on. After that you need to design your web site and wirte your content based on those phrases. Don't forget to use your important keyphrases nearer to top or very bottom of your page. Also use important phrases in your title tag, meta description and ofcourse in H1 tag and ... After designing the web site you need to start link builing and add your web site to relevant web sites. Please do not add your web sites if they are irrelevant even if they got high pr ranking. Also some tactical pay per click will help too. Kind regards
3. Wbsite designers do provide onsite SEO during the building and publishing phase. They would charge extra for offsite SEO. The first part of SEO is page optimization. Basic steps included in on site optimization are: 1) Find best targeted keywords relevant to your business 2) Make title and meta tags relevant to your web page theme 3) Content optimization and internal linking. 4) Use of h1,…,h6 tags for heading 5) Create a site map 6) Use title and alt attributes that include targeted keywords. 7) Make robots.txt file. Once onsite optimization is completed, offsite optimization is started. Here are some basic steps for offsite optimization: 1) Directory submission 2) Article submission 3) Link exchange 4) Free Classifieds 5) Social bookmarking 6) Blogging 7) Forum posting 8) Press release 9) Video Submission For online business, content is the most important factor. Having informative and interesting content in the website will entice frequent visits by more visitors. This also helps you to get quality back links easily, as quality back links are most important factor in search engine optimization. Once your site gets higher ranking, it will start getting more targeted visitors and your ROI will increase gradually. http://www.homebizseo.com/SEO/SEO_Home.html
4. SEO considerations should be accounted for even before one web page, much less a whole site, is created. However, since doing the SEO work takes time and effort there is usually an extra fee for that work. In terms of cost, as mentioned above, they vary widely. It is probably best to ask for referrals to help ensure that the company that you are working with actually knows what they are doing. Good luck...
5. Generally speaking, most web designers do not offer SEO services. In the best interest of your business, I recommend that you hire a company that specializes in search engine optimization. So instead keeping all of your eggs in one basket, it will be to your advantage to work with two specialists in their respective fields. Most importantly, you should hire the SEO company and the website designer at the same time. Both of these companies should work together to create a website that is both SEO friendly and aesthetically pleasing to the users.
6. Designers will try to tell you they know SEO. They don't, any more than an SEO specialist knows design. Be very, very careful here. Make sure you get expert advice.
7. Some web hosts do offer SEO services, however, you have to pay a huge sum to them to do it. They are usually not the experts as well. If you are really keen in SEO, you should look for the experts. I have a free ebook here, "SEO Made Easy" written by the world's No. 1 SEO Expert, Brad Callen. You can take a look at it and I am sure you will have your knowledge on SEO grow leaps and bounds after reading it. Here's the link : => http://www.wealthtreasure.com/recommends/SEO_MakeEasy.pdf I have read it from page to page for 6 times and I am amazed still by how much new things I am digesting. Brad is really that good. :-)
8. Not all web designers offer marketing and seo, but some do, there is a link below to one that offers both, as Tim as said Brad Callen is an 'expert' or 'guru' but that does not mean that he does not promote his own stuff, companies that offer seo usually have some very switched on and clever people working for them so it is worth taking a look.