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David Ogletree will be speaking at the upcoming Look at Me seminar about Search Engine Friendly Web Design. We sat down with David and asked him some questions about his presentation, along with a few about what he’s been up to lately.

I see you are speaking on search engine friendly web design. Why do you think this is an important topic for businesses in St Louis?

If you want increase sales from search engine searchers you need to make sure your website can be found in search engines. Most web developers are only concerned about how the website looks and not how a search engine looks at it. When you make a search engine friendly website you have a better chance of ranking at the top. It is not uncommon to be in a 3-way battle for the top spot. You may all be going after the same links. In this case the site that has better on page optimization will rank the highest.

My cousin’s girlfriend built my business website for a few hundred bucks. Is spending thousands of dollars on a SE-friendly website really worth it?

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