Small business website design choices are a crucial element to begin an online relationship that will attract potential customers and clients. Using a large company for your website design project may not always be the way to go. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen these corporates use bad SEO strategies to design websites for their customers. Sometimes they put the administrative contact in their own name instead of the website owner’s and have multiple errors on webpages such as missing keywords, descriptions and titles. I’ve even noticed that these company designed websites have errors and warnings on their own main page, something a common visitor wouldn’t notice.

People get charged exorbitant amounts for monthly hosting, like $40 to $100, when it should that much should be for a YEAR of hosting. They see a website online and think it’s the best thing since sliced bread, not realizing that it may not bring any traffic at all, and in Google’s eyes is like a blank sheet of paper. People think “I got a big name company doing my work and they are in the top ten, they must know what they’re doing”, when in actuality, it’s the small webdesign companies like myself who are going to take the time and effort to make sure your projects are done properly.

Your website design choice for small business is not one you want to make more than once. In conclusion, be careful who you pick and don’t be afraid to ask questions to your website designer. If they don’t want to make you the administrative contact or discuss SEO value for your website, you may want to find someone else.