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The Smart Triangle: Our approach to building a successful website.
Successful websites create a strategy to do two things really well:
Drive well-qualified traffic to your site
Once on the site, convert a user into a customer
Because these two things are so important, and so tightly integrated, each strategy we employ for our clients
focuses on heavily on these two principles. In order to successfully accomplish this, our philosophy and process
starts by recognizing the balanced simplicity of our Smart Triangle.
We call this the ultimate solution, and it’s our philosophy in building successful web sites. Our smart triangle holds the key to explaining why the balance of search engine optimization, a credible, trustworthy brand design and structured content (that feeds both the brand and the search spiders) ultimately are the basic principles for success. It gets a bit more complex from there, so this is our way of breaking these down into simple ideas that’s easy for everyone.
Search
So often forgotten until after the site is launched, search analysis is where every web project should start . It’s one thing that stands us apart and makes our approach unique. Understanding your audience online and bringing that understanding through every piece of the project (design, content and optimization) is key.
A search spider most definitely should be on your list for target audiences when reviewing your marketing plan. Just as important as your human audience, a search spider needs to understand who you are, what you’re about and how credible your company is. Of course, they look at quite different things than your human audience, namely the code of your web site and others linking to you, which is where search engine optimization starts. Successful websites start by understanding the online marketplace and optimizing to the needs of your competition in the engines for your selected keyword phrases. Naturally, the online market changes over time and thus the game ensues, which involves monitoring reports, measuring site updates and making quality links a priority.
Brand
Your website is one piece of your full marketing puzzle. It’s one piece of a whole that mimics and expands on your brand and company perception. The brand is the visual reaction, the emotional pull that humans (not spiders) see of your site. It encompasses the graphics, the layout, the call to action and the goals of the site conversion (what you ultimately want the user to do).Successful websites carry forth the style guide, the colors, the photography or illustrations that is consistent with every other marketing message.
Content
Content is the guts of your site. It’s the copy and educational information, it’s the audio and video tutorials, it’s the products and descriptions you sell, it’s the blogging or forum posts, it’s the photo gallery of images of your last event and more importantly, it’s the organization of all the content into your site structure.
If you picture the search spider and the human customer hungry for information, the content is the food that continually feeds both the spider and the humans to keep them constantly coming back. Content has to be quite tasty to capture your audience and have them begging for more! The vehicle for getting your content regularly online is our
content management system
, which allows easy-to-use, anywhere, anytime access to your site. Great content, in combination with branded design and search engine optimization are the keys to your ultimate solution online.
Lastly, and yet still critical to the success of your site, is the ongoing customer support that only a team of experts can provide. Full access to our search, design and content expertise is the last and core center to our triangle and our philosophy here at Smart Solutions. ‘ART’ is our mascot and represents the team of
customer support
here for you.
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