cant find girlfriends website on google??

24MARK24

24MARK24

24MARK24

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Hi all,

My girlfriend has recently had a website made by someone who is particularly new to web design. The website itself looks ok for the money spent, but its not displaying in any results while searching in google?

I know nothing about web design so I may have overlooked something very simple. Do you have to pay companys to have your website displayed on the first page?

thanks for help

M
 
Quickest way I believe is once you've setup webmaster tools to submit a sitemap to it.

Also check it doesn't have any crazy noindex tags or a robots.txt file with disallow all in it.
 
Sorry, another question....

Is it normal for the person who made the website to keep admin privileges?

The website is basically for a beauty salon and she would like to offer discounts possibly once a month. The problem is she charges for when changes are made.

I would have thought once the website was complete and paid for she could do whatever she liked with it? Maybe Im wrong in thinking like this, as I said web design isn't my forte :confused:
 
Depends really. That's a pretty common set-up to be honest unless you bought the copyright (very messy potentially).

Does the designer provide/are you paying them for the domain and the hosting of the website? Personally I'd look to moving it to your own host - i.e. you have complete admin right over it - (£2.99/year for a .co.uk and ~£15/year for hosting) because it gives you the control over it and stops them making outrageous demands if they see fit and also if they pack-up business you don't want your site dropping off the internet.

What's the site out of interest? I should be able to tell if it was built with a content management system making updates pretty pain free for them.
 
Looks pretty nice to be honest. It doesn't look like it was made with a content management system (e.g. Wordpress) but Adobe Muse.

Did she buy the domain herself or through the designer?
 
Thanks. She bought the domain herself, would she just need to ask for the password?

Once she had the admin privilege id change the offers myself and maybe add pages in the future (once ive done some web design research of course :)).

The designer is a friend of a friend so it shouldn't cause to much of a problem.
 
In that case you are admin and should have control panel / FTP access to the site. That's all you need to modify it. If you login to your names account does it point you towards a control panel anywhere (maybe under the hosting part)?

Ideally you might want the project files from the designer if you wanted to edit it with Adobe Muse (I'm not sure how it works, it may not even have any) and any changes she does may overwrite yours if she just uploads from her local copy rather than syncing with your copy first. Mind you, you could always change the FTP password to be safe though.
 
As already stated - create an account with Google Webmaster Tools and upload a site map. This will not help on its own. Web design is equally important.

Make sure there's plenty of worthwhile content on there and that it's relevant.

Also, link to other sites and get other sites to link to you. While Google is crawling web sites this will help.

To get a decent rank you need to really keep on top of things - which is why some pay for SEO.

Just been looking into all this myself :)
 
I'll have to ask her in the morning now as she's away with the fairies, also cant get access to names.co.uk as blocked by work filter! I'll report back tomorrow as I work nights.

Massive thanks tho Pho and all who helped!
 
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edscdk said:
whats the issue with that?
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Not really an issue per say, but the code is being created by a program and not hand coded by a human (which is very easy to do), so if the price was high then it could be slightly annoying.
 
24MARK24 said:
cheers Pho

http://www.beautyworkscheshire.co.uk

the mrs paid for the the domain name and also the yearly subscription.
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The site looks pretty

I notice the domain of the design company (iuvo-design.co.uk) is a holding page and on whois is registered to a non-trading individual :confused:
Also there seems to be another company trading as 'iuvo design' with a .com domain

Tripnologist said:
Hope you weren't charged much for the build as it looks like it was done with Adobe Muse.
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Locke said:
Not really an issue per say, but the code is being created by a program and not hand coded by a human (which is very easy to do), so if the price was high then it could be slightly annoying.
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Completely agree :(
 
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