ThemeGrade

We know what it takes to rank on major search engines using only the white hat SEO.

If you want fast and temporary results, you are referring to the black hat SEO and this service is not for you! We only deliver long-term SEO result at a very affordable price!

First of all, we strongly believe that you need to know the basic of SEO before engaging any SEO services. Why? Because it is easy to get lured into paying for services that don’t deliver as promised or you are paying TOO MUCH for the service.

Let’s get down to the basic.

Broadly speaking, there are only two things to consider if you want to rank for a particular keyword: on-page SEO and off-page SEO. On-page SEO is how well your page is optimized for search engines while off-page SEO is the links (or backlinks) you get from other sites. We call this process SEO link building.

For an SEO expert, it normally takes less than half a day to research the keywords and probably another half a day to implement the keywords to a page. If you already have your own keywords to target, you can save up to half the money.

For non-competitive keywords in which few people are targeting, you can get them on the first page of search engines by optimizing your page WITHOUT any link building. On the other hand, if the keywords are competitive, you need to optimize your page both on-page and off-page.

One way to know whether the keywords you are going to target are competitive or not is to use the Google keyword tool. Enter your keyword in the box and you’ll get the number of searches in the previous month and the monthly average. In general, keywords with less searches are less competitive and easier to rank but keep in mind that there are some exceptions and you can’t depend on this tool alone.

Avoid SEO companies which
1) promise link back from 1000 (some even 10,000) websites within a short period of time

2) charge you for search engine submission

3) promise to get your site on the first page of search engines within 1 month.

Most designers ignore the W3C test when coding their themes simply because it is a test too tough to pass.

Nevertheless, to comply a theme with W3C is important because of the following benefits:

• Compliance helps the search engine rankings as compare with non-compliant websites. Frederick Townes of W3 EDGE Web Design explained it well when he said, “Proper use of standards and bleeding edge best practices makes sure that not only is the copy marked up in a semantic fashion which search engines can interpret and weigh without confusion, it also skews the content-to-code ratio in the direction where it needs to be while forcing all of the information in the page to be made accessible, thus favoring the content. We’ve seen several occasions where the rebuilding of a site with standards, semantics and our proprietary white hat techniques improves the performance of pages site-wide in the SERPs.”
• Compliance helps ensure that your website is accessible from a number of devices; from different browsers to the growing number of surfers using PDAs and cellular phones.
• Compliance will also help ensure that regardless of the browser, resolution, device, etc. that your website will look and function in the same or at least a very similar fashion.

Exclusion of CSS Validation

We no longer grade themes on whether or not they have valid CSS for a couple reasons. First, certain “hacks” required to make various features function properly in legacy browsers (i.e. Internet Explorer 6-8) are not valid CSS, but are widely considered to be acceptible means of achieving cross-browser styling. Second, with the latest advancements in CSS3 and the way in which various browser vendors impelent these new specs, including one line of browser-specific CSS3 code can lead to validation errors. CSS validation is more or less a good way of spotting errors in a document rather than trying to achieve a “perfect score,” which is very important in terms of markup validation. Hopefully this helps to explain why we no longer apply a grade in this category.

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