Web Design In Vancouver — Helpful And Informative Links

• Domain Name Registration And Web Hosting
  
  Choose a Canadian company to host your web design — Vancouver Island's dotcanuck.ca is an excellent and affordable source for registering your domain name and providing web hosting services...
  
  
• Better Business Bureau Of Mainland BC
  
  The Lower Mainland branch of the Better Business Bureau allows you to view reports on the Vancouver web design company you may be considering hiring before starting your web design project...
  
  
• The Society Of Graphic Designers Of Canada
  
  This organization can help you find a Canadian design firm best suited for your communication needs and offers some excellent design-related reading material and resources...
  
  
• Small Business BC
  
  Whether your business is based in Victoria, Prince George or Kelowna, one of your first tasks when setting up a new business in British Columbia will be to register it...
  
  
• Yahoo! Site Explorer
  
  Yahoo! Site Explorer is a little known, but very powerful tool that lets you access information about the online presence of a website. You can use Site Explorer to perform a variety of tasks...
  
  
• Yahoo! Search Indexing And Ranking
  
  How to determine if a website is listed in the Yahoo! Search Index, how to add a website, how to improve the position of a website in Yahoo! search results and plenty more...
  
  
• Google Webmaster Tools
  
  Google Webmaster Tools provides detailed reports about the visibility of your website on Google. Sign up for an account and add and verify your website — you will start seeing information right away...
  
  
• Bing Webmaster Tools
  
  Another powerful set of tools for webmasters to improve website rankings across all search engines, get data on which pages of a website have been indexed, check keyword performance and lots more...
  
  
• Create Your Own Blog Website
  
  Blogger is a free publishing tool from Google for sharing your thoughts with the world — a superb way to add news to your web design project and easily update it whenever you wish...
  
  
• Google Webmaster Guidelines
  
  Following this series of guidelines and suggestions outlined by Google will help Google to find, index and rank your website...
  
  
• Best Practices For Local Businesses
  
  When you target online customers in a particular locality, you can help Google to provide relevant information to local users by following a number of steps...
  
  
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  
  Search Engine Optimization can improve your website ranking but it can also damage your website ranking as well as your reputation if it is not done properly...
  
  
• Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide
  
  Google's excellent Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers about a dozen common areas which webmasters may consider optimizing in their web design project...
  
  
• How Google Ranks Pages
  
  The positions of websites in Google's search results are determined by a number of factors designed to provide end-users with accurate, helpful search results...
  
  
• Creating A Google-Friendly Website
  
  Include high-quality content on the pages of your web design — especially on your homepage, and make sure that other websites link to yours...
  
  
• Don't Participate In Link Schemes
  
  Don't participate in "link schemes" designed to increase your website ranking and avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web...
  
  
• Website Not Appearing In Search Results Or Appearing Lower
  
  If your website isn't appearing in Google search results or if it is performing more poorly than it once did, these steps may help to identify and fix potential causes of the problem...
  
  
• My Website In Google's Search Results
  
  Frequently asked questions to many Google-related topics — why your website may not be appearing in the search results or showing up for specific keywords...
  
  
• Working With Sitemaps
  
  Submitting an XML Sitemap helps Google to know about all the pages on your website including URL's that may not be found by Google's normal crawling process...
  
  
• How Google Crawls, Indexes And Serves The Web
  
  When you perform a Google search, Google checks their index to determine the most relevant search results to be returned to you...
  
  
• Google Analytics
  
  Improve your online results and gain rich insights into your website traffic with Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reporting, Motion Charts and more...
  
  
• PayPal
  
  The most popular online payment system available on the Internet which helps you to reduce the high costs of doing e-commerce over the web...
  
  
• iStockphoto
  
  A huge selection of outstanding stock photography — ideal for your web design project with millions of reasonably-priced, royalty-free images to choose from...
  
  
• CuteFTP
  
  Cute FTP is an affordable FTP (file transfer protocol) program for transferring files between your computer and your web server and for performing edits with its built-in HTML editor...
  
  
• W3C Markup Validation Service
  
  Checking the HTML code of your web design structure with this Markup Validation Service ensures a high-quality website which should display properly in all of the major web browsers...
  
  
• Canada's New Privacy Law
  
  The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act entered its third and final stage of full implementation in January of 2004...