The Brief
JMAC IT and Office Solutions offer a complete solution for offices including design/layout, fit-outs, ergonomics, equipment, stationery supplies and IT services. While they were an established business, they had not yet had a website built for them, but they were now ready to market themselves online.
We were commissioned to build a mobile-responsive website with the following objectives:
>> To describe their wide range of products and services, thus promoting them as a one stop shop for office supplies and services
>> To position them as experts in their niche
>> To follow the existing branding through to the website and ensure that it is easily recognisable as an office supplies and services provider
>> To provide a great user experience through good navigation and to make it easy for the customer to make contact with the company
>> To provide visibility of their social media profiles, for customers who like to engage with the business in this way
>> To optimise the website for Google search i.e. to make the website search engine friendly so that those searching for this type of business can easily find it.
Our Approach
We followed our standard procedure as follows:
- Initial wireframe submitted to the client, listing the website pages and how they would be displayed in the main menu
- Initial homepage prototype submitted to the client, showing the position of all elements; logo, navigational menu, banner, introduction, testimonial slider and footer.
- Following approval of the above, the website was built using text and images supplied by the client as well as some stock images to enhance the message that the website was delivering. The branding was maintained throughout the site.
- The main goal with the site was to encourage the customer to make contact with the business, therefore we made this as easy as possible by including a contact form at the bottom of each page. Providing a pleasant user experience and making it easy to navigate the site is critical to the success of any website.
- Testimonials were obtained from past and existing customers and placed both on the homepage and in a dedicated Testimonials page.
- Links to Social Media profiles were included on the contact page.
- Because JMACOS was a relatively new business, visibility in the search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) was a must and so on-page SEO optimisation was carried out. This included (among other strategies) keyword research and the population of metatags, text, URL’s and images with these keywords. In other words, a search was conducted to see what keywords their potential customers were typing into in a Google search box in order to find the products and services which JMACOS were providing. The site was then populated with these keywords. Many other on-page SEO strategies were adopted, too numerous to list here.
The Result
The website was moved to the live server upon approval by the client and the client was happy with the results. The following keywords were targeted and beside them you can see where the website ranked (at the time of testing) in a Google search result page for the keywords:
| Keyword | Rank on Google Result Page |
|---|---|
| Office Supplies Kerry | 2 |
| Managed IT Services Kerry | 3 |
| Managed Print Services Kerry | 1 |
The Feedback
We hired Noelle to help us with our Website and Social Media set up & launch. We found her very knowledgeable, helpful and always available to us when needed.
She is very trustworthy, committed and gives tremendous value as well. We highly recommend Noelle and her services.