Professional, Not Cheap, Web Developers Are Required

Web developers a dozen a dime, as sad it sounds, it is the reality. However, like it is the case with everything else in life, quality doesn't come for cheap. When you find the proverbial dozen a dime web developer, the quality of work is worth a dime as well. Seriously, when someone is quoting rates which are less than even your expectation, can you really expect quality? Realistically, you would even be embarrassed to hold him responsible if it doesn't work, you being a goodhearted person.

Sadly, you need things which work, in your professional domain. You need a website which looks great and has even better functions. It should look professional, so that it gives the vibe of your company being a professional organisation. Enters the professional web developer of Thailand who would deliver exactly that. OK, it might be an agency but you get the sense, right? He will do exactly what your hired the cheap developer for. He will build a site using a design which befits the domain of the site and he will implement the functionalities which you want for your visitors. Moreover, he is accountable and responsible, two qualities of every professional web developer which aid you. You can always find him when you need and make him rework if you are not happy with something he built. If it is an agency, it is even better because there are different developers available at your disposal to take care of different aspects of development.

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WordPress: The King of CMS

CMS website is popular because they serve the purpose without being too difficult to develop. This has led the CMS to be the most popular type of website on the planet. If you don't know, CMS stands for Content Management System and it is exactly what it sounds. These websites are created to deliver contents (videos, texts, audio or images) to the users.  The most popular example would be a blog where we don't sell things and thus the only purpose behind creating a blog is to share contents with the readers.  The most popular premium CMS solution or platform is WordPress and you must have heard of it. Almost half of all CMS websites are built on WordPress and there are reasons why so.

WordPress is the easiest CMS to set up and thus, most web development agencies would offer you WordPress when offering CMS Web Development. WordPress also has multiple inbuilt features when the add-ons are used, the functionalities and the possibilities are literally limitless. Not only you can do almost anything you want to do with your website, you can measure the data so accurately as well. This is very important from the SEO perspective. From where we stand, SEO is the first thing we consider when thinking of a site. This is because, without promotion a website is as good as no website. With add-ons making SEO optimisation so simple, even the webmasters or the website owners can perform simple SEO tasks.

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Importance of Link Building in SEO

Yes, every blog on SEO in Thailand you read told you how important the links are for your website to rank. However, very few explained to you exactly what happens when you have links and why they are important. Let us explain.

Google is constantly searching the internet for content and noting them in their database. While going through the contents on the internet, they also encounter links. They follow these links and check out the contents of these links as well.

Now, suppose you sell shoes online and your website is all about shoes. Also suppose that there is a very prominent discussion board on a website, dedicated to leather shoes, where your link is mentioned. Google can understand the theme of a website by the general content it publishes and thus, it knows the discussion forum is more or less an authority on shoes. Now, in real life, if an expert names you, in a discussion as a reference, would interested people take note of it or not? Same happens on the internet with Google. When it sees that an authority site is naming you (linking you, in this case) it will take note of you, regarding shoes. It will increase your ranking because knowledgeable people cite you in their discussions.

Till now, we discussed the importance of quality links in SEO ranking. Now, your competitors are also trying their best to get mentions here and there. Thus, the quantity of the link comes in. That would be our next blog.

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What is Proactive Online Reputation Management

SEO has always been about improving your online reputation but we didn't use to ponder about protecting our online reputation, thinking it is safe. However, that is not the case and in fact, before the social media sites spread everywhere, we didn't even realise that it is actually easier to defame someone or something online than in real life. Thus, the need of proactive protection of the online reputation came into prominence. Every good digital marketing agency in Thailand now offers online reputation management or similar packages.

What these packages offer? Either you can choose those when the damage has been done or when you feel there can be an attack very soon. If the damage has been done, the agency would swiftly start damage control. Most of the times, these attacks come from social media, so, the agency would engage in social media management and contact the people and try to sort out the issues. They would also ensure that the issue doesn't receive much attention and get buried while in the background they try the appeasement of the irked parties.

Sometimes though, these attacks are motivated and well-crafted just to defame you. In those cases, the agency would ensure that the positive news about you comes to the top of the search engine and not those lies. The agency would also post proofs of your innocence and promote those on different forums, the social media and wherever the attackers are trying to malign you.

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Spot Unreliable SEO Companies Easily In This Way

Every website owner needs SEO else the website is as good as a dead bat. If there is no visitor to the website, the purpose, whatever it might be, isn't served. So, we need SEO, or the variations of it like SMO or PPC and other, for a successful website.

Now SEO is a tricky proposition and a completely new skill for people who don't know about it. Either you can invest time, effort and money to learn or you can hand the duties over to a professional company and spend your time, effort and money on more profitable things.

Those being said, the question arises, how to select a company who can provide excellent SEO services? There is one thing which tells you of an unreliable SEO company.

Any company who does SEO in Thailand would tell you how capable they are but some of those would simply go beyond the realm of credibility. When a SEO company promises you the top spot for all your keywords within a few weeks, there are two possibilities, either they are lying or they are planning to use forbidden techniques on your website.

Now, both of these are dangerous but the latter is probably more dangerous. In the first case, your website might languish where it is when the SEO starts. But if forbidden techniques are used, your website runs severe risk of Google penalty in which case, you might need to say final goodbye to your website.

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Professional Web Development Agencies Have Certain Advantages

The Thailand online revolution is not as old as some of the other Asian countries and thus, we can see the web design and development industry running at a fast pace to catch up with the world market. This rapid pace of expansion has created a huge demand for qualified web developers in Thailand. However, as the industry in new, there is a lack of experienced web developers. One should check not only the expertise and skill levels of the developer but also the experience and the previous works so that the project is left to experienced developers alone.

The other workaround of the problem would be to hire a web development company instead of a freelance web developer. Hiring a company has multiple advantages. First of all, you know who to hold responsible and where to look for when your project develops an issue. Secondly, these companies have more than one web developer so experience is not an issue here. Even if there are inexperienced designers, the team leader would be guiding him and your project will receive the attention you want. Finally, companies are way more professional than freelance web developers will ever be.

On the other hand, companies charge more than freelance developers. This is a trade off which you must make. When it comes to completing a project satisfactorily, professional web development agencies are much better an option and thus, you should not hesitate to pay a little extra to them.

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Evolve With The Industry or Move On

 

2017 is here but many companies can't simply get out of their habit of how they did SEO in 2010. That is the major reason why most of the SEO companies die silently or keep coming up with different identities after messing up at the first go. SEO has changed a lot and the successful players are those who adjusted and evolved with time. Hey, even Matt Cutts is not there anymore. Move on!

The major change in approach is how SEO has changed from a quantitative approach to a qualitative approach. For example, SEO companies used to count how many links they have created for a client as a metric of their success and yes, it worked, but in 2010. In 2017, a SEO company in Bangkok should ask themselves, how many quality links they have created and even how many bad links they have removed for the client! 

This change in approach is needed and it should be a top down lesson. The CEO of the company must assimilate it and should drill it down to the lowest level of SEO executives so they realise what their ultimate aim is, how their success would be measured as an employee.

We have been in this business for a long time to realise one thing, many people and experts can't simply change fast enough and thus, when those Google updates come, they lose complete clue. This is a fast moving domain and one must either embrace it or find another profession.

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