Elevate Your Online Presence
SEO is essential because it often serves as the first point of contact between potential customers and your business. Most user journeys begin with a Google search, and your visibility in those search results plays a critical role in securing leads against your competitors. Our design agency provides SEO in Hertfordshire, designed to boost your rankings and attract the right audience.
- Dominate local search results and attract nearby customers with tailored local SEO strategies
- Get found by potential customers searching specifically for your services right now!
- Drive high-quality traffic to your website through organic search results
- Position your business as a leader by leveraging SEO tactics that consistently places you ahead of your competitors in search results
So, What is Seach engine optimisation?
In the digital age, online visibility is everything! Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the strategic process of enhancing your website’s visibility on search engines like Google, ensuring that your business is easily found by potential customers actively searching for your services.
Effective SEO involves a multifaceted approach that combines technical expertise, content strategy, and link-building efforts. It’s a continuous process that requires adapting to ever-changing search engine algorithms and staying ahead of your competitors. By optimising your website’s content, structure, and online presence, SEO helps build your brand’s authority, improve user experience, and increase your website’s trustworthiness in the eyes of both search engines and users. Generally, SEO is categorised in two ways:
On-Page SEO
On-Page SEO focuses on optimising the content and structure of your website to make it more search engine-friendly. This includes the strategic use of keywords, optimising meta tags, headers, and URLs, and ensuring your content is both informative and relevant to your audience. Additionally, On-Page SEO involves improving site speed, mobile-friendliness, and overall user experience, making it easier for search engines to index your site and for users to navigate it. An optimised and well-designed website is the foundation of a successful SEO strategy.
Off-Page SEO
Off-Page SEO is all about building your website’s authority and reputation across the web. This is achieved through activities that happen outside of your website, such as acquiring high-quality back-links from other websites and social media engagement. Off-Page SEO signals to search engines that your site is credible, trustworthy, and popular, which in turn boosts your rankings. By creating a strong network of external links and fostering positive online interactions, you enhance your site’s ability to rank higher in search results.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS THINK
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We have used Creative Critters for two projects now and they have been really easy to work with. They created a modern logo and website for our catering business and got us ranking on Google already with their SEO Package. Seriously impressed and definitely recommend them.
Sammy at Creative Critters was excellent to work with. We had a pre existing website that we wanted to refine to be in line with our enhanced brand identity, not only did he do what was required, he also gave his expert advice in ensuring the website visitor experience was well thought out. Sammy was available at all times to help us meet our own business objective deadlines providing support both in person and available online.We will be coming back to Sammy for more, I'm sure.Anita Mindful Movements
Sammy has been amazing and created a beautiful website for my bridal makeup business! Such a good price and he brought my vision to life, highly recommend
Our Search Engine Optimisation packages
Our SEO packages are designed to ensure your business achieves optimal online visibility and growth quickly. From foundational strategies to advanced techniques, each package is crafted to enhance your search engine rankings and drive qualified traffic. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to dominate your market, our comprehensive website design & SEO services provide tailored, results-driven approaches that align with your business objectives.
Google Search Package
Securing a top position in Google Search results hinges on the strength of your site’s authority and relevance. A key strategy in our approach is building high-quality backlinks that signal to search engines that your site is a trusted and authoritative source. Our process includes identifying and acquiring valuable backlinks from reputable websites within your industry. This not only enhances your site’s credibility but also improves its ranking potential.
- Targeted Backlinks: Acquire high-quality, relevant backlinks from authoritative websites to enhance your site’s credibility
- Content-Driven Links: Create compelling content that naturally attracts backlinks from industry influencers and related sites
- Link Analysis: Continuously monitor and refine your backlink profile to ensure quality and effectiveness
Google Map-Pack Package
For local businesses, excelling in the Google Map-Pack requires more than just optimising your Google My Business listing and location; it involves building a network of high-quality local backlinks. These backlinks improve your local authority and visibility in local searches. Our strategy includes acquiring backlinks from local platforms to strengthen your local presence and enhance your reputation within your local community.
- Local Backlinks: Secure high-quality backlinks from local directories and community websites to boost your local authority
- Community Engagement: Build relationships with local organizations and blogs to earn valuable backlinks from community-focused websites
- A Fully Optimised GMB Listing: Ensure your Google My Business profile is complete and optimised to improve visibility in the Map-Pack
Our Search Engine Optimisation Process
We take great pride in delivering reliable and affordable SEO services in Hertfordshire. We are a design agency that’s on a mission to grow businesses with a tried and tested results-driven process. We partner with businesses to build the foundations for a strong online presence and increase your search engine rankings.
Journey & Discovery
The first step is to understand the challenges your customers encounter and the information they seek during their online searches. By identifying these needs, we can develop a targeted SEO strategy that aligns with their search intent
Design & Develop
After establishing the foundational SEO strategies, we focus on optimising the structure and content. We’ll guide you through best practices for on-page SEO, ensuring your content is aligned with search intent and effectively attracts your target audience
Advise & Revise
We provide expert guidance on selecting the best target keywords and we start by targeting key pages with the most relevant keywords and effective link-building strategies. Once we’ve fine-tuned these elements we extend these optimisations to the rest of your site.
Package & Deliver
Your site is now ready to make a powerful impact. We ensure that your SEO strategy is fully implemented to enhance visibility and attract qualified leads. Our SEO packages deliver fast, measurable results, helping you achieve drive targeted traffic long-term
Frequently Asked Questions
Generally most of the websites we create are designed, developed and delivered within 14 days, while larger projects may take up to 6 weeks. It all depends on the complexity of the website in question and the scope of the project. Generally, by sticking to the project schedule and providing us with well written and considered content and imagery as soon as possible will speed up the process.
That’s a hard question to answer, as all businesses are unique and may have different requirements and goals. For example, a general service or portfolio oriented website will cost less than a website that requires a complex booking, payment and management system.
Our design agency provides affordable website design in Hitchin, Hertfordshire meaning that small businesses no longer need to miss out on offering their customers the amazing digital brand experience they deserve.
It all starts with a chat! We dig deep and ask the right questions to unearth what you and your business are about and your goals. Resulting in a better understanding of who your customers are and what they are really looking for.
From there, we explore types and styles of websites that would be most appropriate for your needs. We then put together a design for your homepage and once approved we will carry on and translate and expand the styling and composition of the content you want to show off for the rest of your pages.
Absolutely, most of the websites we design and develop are for clients based in Hertfordshire who have an old tired website that needs refreshing to grow the business further.
We don’t use templates! You and your business are unique and so should your website – We design and develop bespoke responsive websites that provide the digital brand experience your customers expect and deserve.
Yes! your website will be accessible on desktop, tablet and mobile devices and will be fully responsive to give your customers the an amazing user friendly experience no matter what device they are using. We’re advocates for the ‘Mobile First’ mentality where we focus on providing mobile users a great and consistent experience considering mobile devices account for 65% of all internet traffic.
Yes, we design and develop your website on our private servers which you will have access to.
We request that a deposit is paid prior to work being carried out, typically at 50%. With bigger projects we may also break payments down into multiple ongoing milestone payments. Final invoices are released upon completion of the project.
yes, we will teach you the basics to adding/editing new content to your websites existing pages. If you decide you want us to add content for you, we offer a management & maintenance package which includes minor content changes so you can sit back and relax.
Yes, with quality content your website will rank in google over time. We provide both on-page and off-page Search Engine Optimisation to target keywords you would like to rank for. We also optimise all your images to boost SEO and help with page loading speeds.
Yes, all the websites we design and develop are secure and are backed up every 4 hours. The internet is an ever evolving space with malicious activities we must protect against. Updates will need to be done to the plugins and tools used to build and power your website to prevent vulnerabilities and security flaws in outdated software.
We offer a Wordpress management & maintenance package which includes monitoring and updating the software for your website and plugins used to prevent security flaws.
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