What is the best way of Marketing my Web Design Business?

Are you reffering to online marketing?? if so... the best way is to get a search engine optimization package, this will allow the search engines to crawl your website on different search engines, portals and directories, however even though this is necessary this can be expensive depending on which company you use, but optimization can take 6-12 months to start working (start appearing on the engines etc), so you have to be patient, also its not guaranteed where you will appear, i would think web design would be a very popular industry, so you'll be competing with quite a few companies, who all use the same keywords and metatags etc.

The other option you have is to open some cpc (cost per click) accounts with various search engines, this basically allows you to get on the first page of the search engines under your chosen keywords within a few hours, but you have to pay everytime someone clicks on your website, this can be expensive also if your wanting to appear under popular terms such as web design, as the more popular terms have a higher cost per click rate, however with most major search engines you can opt to localise your listings to certain areas, which will attract a more targeted audience and increase your ROI (return of investment).

Hope this helped, im in a rush, otherwise i'd give you a more detailed answer.

Good luck!!

I agree with AndrewB's comments about SEO and PPC.

In your shoes, I'd be looking offline.

I'd look through my local Yellow Pages to find businesses that are advertising (paid ads - so they're willing and motivated to spend money to promote their business) and see which ones don't have websites.

Then I'd write to them and offer them a basic website.

(follow up the letter with a phonecall)

Hope this helps,

Steve

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create a web page, where is your link?, do you want to see the work in progress I am doing? I could send you the stuff no probs.

develop the product, if that is your Web design ideas, put it out there. Show what you can do, word of mouth, seeing is believing are still true in the modern market place unless you have millions to throw at advertising.

repost showing a link to what you can do for more useful comments.

I found a curious System that blows away search engine traffic,
with free PPC ads or so the author claims.

Even though you recently published your domain name on major major search engines/directories, you may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website and placing various critical metatags can surely achieve a high search engine presence and placement.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the Title metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The Title should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the Title is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the Description which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes the goods and services.

And the very last category - Keywords are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query "pizza downtown los angeles." It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where "Pizza Next Door" is ranked. It's in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door's high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

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