Back before the dot-com bubble burst, the national Web giants such as Razorfish, MarchFirst and iXL used to place a great emphasis on user experience and information design.
Nowadays, budgets are tighter, and lots and lots of information architects are doing something else for a living.
We bring this up because in our work with complex websites, shopping carts and dynamically generated sites, we often run into areas where we have been able to really boost the client ROI with our strategic search marketing services.
Plenty of Web boutiques offer graphic design. Information design is another matter entirely. The information architecture process is designed to marry the needs of the user with the requirements of the underlying technology. It's about making choices obvious, it's about grouping things logically and grouping things visually. It's about analyzing traffic and responding to visitor needs, about limiting the number of choices without limiting the visitor's travels.
Again, we bring this up because in some of our strategic Internet marketing adjustments to dynamically generated sites, we can refine the information architecture at the same time. It's something we tell our clients all the time; if we're going to the trouble of optimizing your site for search engines, we might as well optimize it for humans while we're at it.
So go ahead, give us a call toll free at 1-877-216-3008 and ask about both strategic SEO and IA adjustments. You're actually doing us a favor when you do; while optimizing for search engines is a given, optimization for the user is the sexiest kind of work for creative types.
In fact, that's the secret to our strategic Internet marketing success -- understanding both the human side and the search-engine robot side. We say it a number of times on this site, but we'll say it again here. Search engine robots don't buy products, people do, and your SEO consultant needs to be proficient in dealing with both.
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