Website design and SEO both are the basic requirements for a website. That means you might have good looking website but do not have people to see it or you have a lot of visitors but don't have good looking design. Might be you don't like my way of telling but it’s the thing what I see every day.
Same goes with contractors because they really need best looking web design and SEO at the same time. No doubt Contractors website design companies are well aware of importance of web design and SEO but still they needed to be updated about this. That way they can gain new customers and new opportunities which hopefully results in a good return on investment.
Here I am going to show an example for both contractors and website design companies:
You paid twenty five hundred USD for writing a book for you and it should be placed a library at right place. What will you feel if that book does not have a title? Every chapter is also doing have any kind of label! It’s obvious you will call that writer again and ask him/her to write these things and you will get charged for this. I'm sure you realize how hard it might be for someone to find your book in the library computer without a title.
Well SEO is a lot more complicated as compare to this example but their basics are same. Title and description is something that tells search engines what you want to show. Then your content and links need to have the same keywords and phrases.
If I own website.com and list the word "website" on 10,000 pages worth of content, what keyword might I show up for? It's more about phrases rather than a single word nowadays so in that case you need to add words to both sides of the keyword "website" such as: "NH website design services" or "Chicago website design" or something similar.
After getting ranking for one small keyword your site's quality checking started and survival of your site depends on final report of search engine.
Just for example: Your site and your competitor's website get 200 visitors each month. Visitors come to your site and left within 20-30 seconds. Your competitor's site visitors go and check multiple pages too. That tells Google that people like the information they're finding on your competitor's so it should rank for more words.
<a href=""><b>Small Business Website Design</b></a> could be as simple as templates available in market but they don't have a way of being found at all. Possibly you can find more designs on sites that might be not being found in search engines in any way.
It needs 2 to tango this means you should really inquire about the small business website design and exactly how much Web optimization job will probably be performed, if any. Then cost around your best options based on what each company says. Try to find a company with a guarantee so that your risks are less if they can't perform what they promise you.