I would like to say that over the years I’ve seen my share of thousands of websites. From the static websites, to the most well designed websites in the world. So you can say that I’ve been around the block when it comes to website, and can say that I’ve built hundreds of them over the years.
Saying this, I can easily tell anyone if they were over charged for a website that was created by some web designer. So being from North Louisiana and being located on the out skirts of Shreveport-Bossier City, I decided to do a little research on the local so called website design companies in this surrounding area.
Before getting into what I found when I completed my research, I would first like to say that my name is Antonio Coleman. The owner of the Coleman Marketing Group LLC, which is by my standards one of the top marketing businesses in the world. I say this due to the fact that I’ve worked with thousands of clients all over this world helping them dominate their local markets.
I specialize in…
- SEO
- Web Design
- Email Marketing
- Social Media
- Reputation Management
- Local Marketing
- Product Launches
- Writing Books
- Video Marketing
- and the list goes on and on to growing your business.
All of this stems from over 15 years of learning how to market by using the power of the internet. Now for this reason, I wanted to educate my fellow neighbors here in Shreveport -Bossier City on choosing the best web designers.
Shreveport – Bossier City Web Designers (Options)
Before I talk about how to choose the best Shreveport – Bossier City web design company, I first want to explain to you my findings when I did a little digging. I compiled a list of about 5 web design companies in the 30 mile radius of Shreveport-Bossier City.
Now I’m not going to name any of these companies, but if you do a little Google search, they should not be too hard to find. I took about 10 minutes each to look over their websites from top to bottom. I really didn’t care too much about their design because that’s not a factor when it comes to growing your business online.
I looked at the clients that they worked with that they setup websites for. So I looked, and looked some more and found out a lot about the certain clients that they were going after. Most of them were high dollar clients such as doctors, lawyers and dentists just to name a few.
These are the businesses that have lots of money to spend, so asking them about getting a website and them accepting it will mean big business for them. The sites that I saw on most of these websites are well over $1,000 to create. To be honest, I think that a lot of them were maybe over $2500 coming from how custom some of the design are.
Most of these sites included well in detail videos of the clients place of business, which I know for a fact that it’s expensive to make. Believe me, I know because I’ve being doing video for over 10 years now, and understand how much time goes into shooting and editing.
Overall, I saw that a lot of these sites took a bit of work to create, but not so much that it warrants spending thousands of dollars on…..and here is why.
The Hidden Truth about Websites
Mostly all of these websites looked good, well designed and pretty much all that you would ask for in a website..Right. Truth is that I’m an SEO guy and for those who don’t know what SEO stands for, “Search Engine Optimization.” This is nothing more than creating content in a form of a website, page, post or video to get ranked into the search engine for your targeted audience to find you.
Meaning…if someone searched for “Shreveport Dentists,” and your website is not optimized right like a good majority of the websites that I’ve seen, then you lose out on those potential clients. Hate to tell some of you that your websites are mainly useless unless you can get your whole entire website optimized for terms that people will be typing in locally to find your services.
Now, I would say that some sites were done correctly on about a 70% level. Meaning, there are still horrible issues that Google doesn’t like about your website that must be fixed if you want to gain more clients who are searching for your services online.
I have noticed that a big portion of these sites were done to please the eye, versus to help you get clients. It was their job to make the car look nice and clean, so that everyone can marvel over it. The issue is that, the car that people are looking at doesn’t even have an engine in it.
So, how would this nice looking car get me from point A to point B if it isn’t equipped with an engine. I try to wrap my head around that subject also when I see websites done in the matter of just making them look good.
Whether you know it or not, the search engines don’t see images, 3D graphs or videos. No matter how awesome your site is, if it’s not SEO optimized you pretty much just bought a car without an engine..if you get it.
Did They Over Charge You?
The simple answer is Yes and No. Reason behind this is because it’s their job to give you an excellent website for the money you spend. They want that site to pop when potential clients view it. So, in the form of you getting found in Shreveport through a Google search for:
- “Shreveport Dentist”
- “Shreveport Lawyer”
- “Shreveport Tanning”
It’s pretty much not their job unless you go to someone who can build you an awesome, simple website that is search engine friendly. Basically, they over charge you in my mind because they sold you the car but kept the engine for safe keeping.
My recommendation is to find a Shreveport – Bossier City web designer who can pretty much do all of the necessary things to get your site looking good, and also in a position to capture thousands of people searching for your services in the Shreveport – Bossier City area. Just make sure that they do SEO and Web design, but if they don’t do both, think about going somewhere else, or you will just be wasting your money and time.
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