So we’ve been consulting with www.webtext.com and their excellent Irish web designers – Redmillion.ie (Galway’s finest) on the v2.0 site rebuild and migration which has just gone live this morning.

Isn’t it pretty? 

It’s quite ironic really coming right on the heels of the Derek Powazek nonsense that this particular project shows the way SEO and web design can work together in a happy partnership for the benefit of the project and customer.

The guys at Redmillion are no slouches at SEO by any means, they build well optimized sites anyway, and do ongoing SEO for some of their customers, and they rank pretty well themselves for their local and national terms anyway, in fact they’re periodically on the first page of Google.ie for SEO Ireland, (and will likely be top 5 a few weeks after this one )

However as primarily web designers they didn’t have either the time, nor the requisite experience of phrase- targeted site rebuilds and migrations, nor the specialist market knowledge on the relevant SERPs strength, competitivity, and weaknesses, nor how to balance the site’s link-weighting for maximum leverage, subtle title nuances, nor blog integration tactics, or know (from long experience) the best domain consolidation  strategies, or that we needed to move the hosting package to properly target the UK etc etc etc…

We would say they probably do now though..

So they did the graphic design, we thrashed out the structure together on Skype one afternoon, they built a smart modern-looking site, we optimized it’s ass..

Here we are, everything is good. Watch out for it in a chart near you soon, and give them a try, its a great service.