I just don’t get it, or buy it … some web designers say that they include SEO with their $800 web packages. What do you all think they do? It was my understanding that SEO is an in depth process?
I think they do HTML validation, div instead of Table, image alt attribute, CSS and meta tags.
I agree with the poster above me.
Generally it has been noticed that they will be taking care of the on-page optimization part and tries to submit the site to all the search engines.
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Hard to say wihtout being able to ask one of them what they include but it can’t be a lot at that price, they probably have no clue what’s really involved for proper SEO and are just making the site search engine friendly.
Real SEO is about improving the volume or quality of traffic to your site from search engines so it’s about a lot more than just using semantic markup. WC3 validation has no SEO benefit other than to verify your markup which means that the bots probably won’t have any trouble crawling and indexing your site but doesn’t guarantee it since Java script navigation can be a bot barrier but will still validate.
I’d ignore austinparkar as none of the things he mentioned affect SEO.
I don’t think they do! In my experience, when webbies make a big issue about SEO, they are far less likely to care about correct and semantic use of HTML - which is kind of ironic, given how much that contributes towards SEO…
Often it includes a load of link-farm and directory submissions (which are largely worthless). And most of the on-page “SEO” they do is what any good webbie would do as part of the design and authoring process, it is simply using the correct approach to coding and to accessibility and usability.
Everyone has a different definition but if they are not doing keyword research and actually optimizing content and custom crafting new meta information they are not really doing much.