Just in case you are wondering why we are now specialising in WordPress development, I thought an explanation might help people considering their options for website design in Gympie.

Firstly we have been developing small business websites (mostly for Gympie Businesses) since 2000. After almost 10 years of providing stock standard HTML websites (and a couple of other scripted CMS and ECommerce sites), we discovered that nothing comes close to WordPress when it comes to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).  SEO is huge these days as everyone wants their site listed as number one in the Google search results and we have been researching various SEO methods for the last couple of years mainly through Jerry Wests’ SEO Revolution.  The thing that has become clear is that SEO is a lot of work and theat WordPress does most of the SEO work AUTOMATICALLY.

As confirmation of this, here is a presentation by Matt Cutts, (Googles’ antispam and SEO guru).

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Matt did the presentation “How to do better in Google” at WordCamp San Fancisco on 26 June 2009.  Matt uses WordPress instead of Googles own blogging system “Blogger” and makes the following comments:

“WordPress automatically solves a ton of SEO issues”

“You would be amazed at how many sites just throw up a glob of flash so we can’t even crawl it”

“WordPress is a fantastic piece of software and there is few things you can do to optimise it”

We have undertaken considerable research and development in WordPress over the past 2 years and now offer customised Content Management Systems based on the WordPress core.  If you need a real website that does most of the SEO work for you (with our customisations and improvements), then there is no better solution that a Gympie Website WordPress System. 

After all, how can you argue with someone like Matt Cutts, a senior Google Engineer when he recommends WordPress.

Gympie Websites is the newest addition to the www.cooloolabusiness.com network.  It has been developed to enable us to continue to provide the best and most affordable website design services in Gympie.

When we commenced the Cooloola Business Directory in 2001, our philosophy was to provide economical website design services for small businesses facilitating an internet presence using sub-domains to save on the costs of domain name registration and website hosting servcies.  While we still provide this service today, most of our clients have recognised the benefits of having a full website and now we provide full managed domain registration and hiosting services for those clients as well as our other website clients located from Townsville through to Melbourne.

Recent technological advances have made it possible for us to now offer a much enhanced sub-domain website service while maintaining the economical pricing of our packages from 8 years ago.  We can now offer a full sub-domain website with an easy content management system based on the WordPress editor so that our clients can add new pages, photos and content, all from just $10 per month.

We will be bring you news about our network, current website design principles and SEO (search engine optimisation) as we continue to develop our new portal for Gympie businesses.