Welcome to our programming service for web sites.
We offer a complete web site package for £1300 .
The Package
- your own URL, registered in your name
- a chunk of cyberspace to host your web site
- about 8 pages of copy and up to 20 photographs in
total
- your own e-mail address
- a reasonable number of copy updates each year
- registration with the best search engines
- monthly reports on your search engine status
- management and maintenance of your site
- total cost is £1300 per year for the first
year, £900 in the second year
Anyone commissioning a web site should understand that
there are two aspects having to a web site
One without the other, and you get nowhere fast. We
offer a web design service that covers both design and search engine registration
and monitoring
Why have your own site
- Experience has taught me that you need to have your
own URL. If you have a page on a bigger site, then your site just gets lost
in the clutter and will not be found by the maximum number of potential customers
- Your own URL is short,
looks professional and can actually be remembered by customers.
- Click the link for a fuller explanation of
why
Who are Soft Options
What happens if you decide
to buy a web site from us
- we agree a design with you
- we agree a domain name with you and register it
in your name
- we buy the cyberspace and put your web site into
it
- we get paid 50% on placement of order and 50% on
the site going live
- you check your e-mail daily for potential customers.
Internet users expect a reply within 12 hours!
- response will be slow at first, as some of the search
engines can take up to 4 weeks to put submissions on their data base
- it takes three or
four months to get the maximum potential from your site
- we give you monthly statistics showing how many
visitors your web site gets, and how they found the site. If they have come
from a referring site then which one, or if from a search engine, then which
words they have used
What can you expect from
your web site
- it obviously depends on what you are selling
- the Internet is full of hyperbole, and misrepresentation.
I believe that "unique visitors" is the important measure of who
is visiting your site.
- the number of unique visitors you get depends on
your product and its placing with search engines
- if you try http://www.hitbox.com
you will find the "top 1000" sites by category. It is not a comprehensive
list, and only covers those using hitbox counters, but is never the less,
a good cross section of sites
- For example if you look at "tourism" you
will see that apart from a few sites offering discounted airfares, the best
sites are running around 100 to 200 unique visitors per day. 100 uniques
per day would put your site at about 150 on the list today.
- a more realistic figure to expect would be 10 to
20 hits per day in this category which is what most sites get
- a similar analysis in other categories gives you
an idea as to what to expect for your product in those
Search Engine placing
and analysis
- There are people who offer get you listed on hundreds
of sites. Treat these offers with scepticism
- Research shows that something like 95% of
Internet users use one of 8 or 9 search engines to find what they are looking
for
- therefore you need decent placing with these rather
that a blanket placing with hundreds of pages that in many cases are home
pages that have virtually no traffic
- the important search engines are
- Google, Yahoo, and a few others provide nearly all web traffic today
- cover those and you have covered most of what
matters
- we hand submit to all these search engines - hence
avoiding the problems with automatic submissions
- you then need to check on how the submission is
progressing. We supply a month report on you placings
- the proof of the pudding is when a browser can find
your site on any search engine using a few "key words" like "hotels
Cornwall" which is a true test of how finable your site is. If they need
to type in your companies name as the only way of finding the site, then it
is not working for you.
Consultancy Work
If you want us to do consultancy work to improve an
existing web site, we can offer anything from £100 to work on the site without
visiting you, to £500 for a full day anywhere in the UK to offer advice, carry
out the technical improvements on your site, and take digital photographs for
inclusion in the site
If you want to order a site or
if you need more information then
email Soft Options
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