Frequent Questions

Our projects usually range from 2 to 6 weeks, depending on the complexity of the page. There are several stages to our project, and you may visit the Our Process page in the Who We Are section. The timeframe provided includes the stages from exploration to execution and optimization.

Website hosting is how your website becomes available to the World Wide Web. Hosts are companies that provide servers, which are owned or leased by clients for the hosting service. Without hosting your website does not exist on the Internet. POP Creative offers business class hosting services with 99.9% up-time.

There are a few steps that go into the planning of your design, including initial questionnaires and meetings/phone conferences. We spend time researching your competition and your market, as well as making wireframes that will make the design process as clean and organized as possible.

There is the exploration phase, where we get to know your business and your market personally. After the exploration phase is the strategizing phase, focused on the design aspects of your website. Then, there is the design and development phase, when your website is made by our in-house designer and developer, with your input taken along the way. Following design and development is the execution process, when your website gets launched. And finally, there is the optimization phase, when we observe your website function live, and make final improvements.

Search engines help people find what they are looking for, locally, nationally, and globally. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a carefully handled process that makes your website more easily found through search engines, by building links to your website. Using strategically placed keywords that people are searching for, your website becomes more highly ranked in search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Search engines results are influenced by the number and quality of links pointing to a site; the more links there are to your site, the higher it ranks and the more visible it is to your customers, making your business more successful. For businesses that want to build an online presence in this increasingly digital world, building links to your website is crucial to your success. For more detailed information and options, please visit our Online Marketing page.

There are a number of things to consider when deciding if you are getting good SEO. Take a look at what the search engine giant, Google, qualifies as a good SEO http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35291

Typically, to rank for a local search term a safe estimate is between 3-6 months, depending on the amount of competition. There is no standard way to predict or estimate how long it will take for a site to rank because of the amount of factors to consider when determining how long it will take for a site to rank, including budget, competition, and how SEO ready your site is.

Yes. Because it usually takes at least 3 months before your site will begin to rank, we want to have a fair opportunity to give you the best results possible. Our standard contract length is 6 months.

Though no company that handles SEO seriously can guarantee results, we have helped 100% of the clients whom we deemed SEO-ready increase their conversions and revenue. Almost any business qualifies for SEO, and we have increased the success of many businesses.