With our experience and understanding of the Internet our clients only benefit from having a web presence. 

Many Web sites on the Internet neglect critical aspects of Web Development. At E-Cat we cover the whole spectrum, from the design of your site to helping you market your Web site using skilled Search Engine Management experience.

Why use E-Cat Web Design Search Engine Management?

When someone queries a search engine for a keyword related to your site's products or services, does your page appear in the top 10 matches or does your competitors?  If you are listed, but not within the first two or three pages of results, you loose, no matter how many search engines to who you have submitted your site.

Since the majority of web site searches begin with one of the major search engines like Google or Ananzi , visibility on these sites has become crucial for most businesses.  But what can someone do to increase their ranks for keywords and keyword phrases relevant to the web site's content?  The theme you'll hear from most web marketers these days is this:"Submitting is not enough."

We will manage all your requirements regarding Search Engine submissions, Keyword and Keyword Phrases, Title and Description to ensure an acceptable position on the major search engines and other search engines relevant to your web site content.

We concentrate only on major and relevant Search Engines to ensure your desired position! We offer a Search Position, against relevant keyword or keyword phrases and site submittal report for your convenience for the major search engines.

Redesigning of websites

Our unique South African skills and software enable our web design team to identify the right keywords for your web site - the keywords that potential visitors will actually use when searching for your services or products. The difference between web designs that use the right or wrong keywords is huge. Wrong can mean only 50 visitors a month. Right can produce 3 000 or even 50 000 visitors a month.

The potential for sales on the Internet continues to grow as about ten million new users come online every month. But the competition grows too. Web design skills and search engine optimisation are critical in ensuring that your web site is seen by the almost 500 million people now using the Internet.

In 2006 the only web designs that make business sense are those that attract targeted visitors to your web site and convert the visitors into paying customers.

Graphics Service

We have many years experience in digital graphics and include the following as part of our portfolio of services:

• The creation of customized digital graphics.
• Enhancement of photographs
• Flash animation
• GIF animation
• Creation of corporate logos

e-cat provides a complete range of professional Internet services, including: web site and online product catalogue site designing and development, hosting services, website maintenance, graphic design, and electronic marketing and outstanding customer service.

Building a website is a relatively easy task but creating a professional online presence requires skill and expertise that e-cat can confidently provide.

We pride ourselves on paying attention to detail and using innovative technologies, ensuring that each completed project meets all targets in terms of deadline, budget, client specifications and user requirements.

No two web sites are alike and the overall cost of a project depends on a variety of factors, including the complexity of your site's design, database integration, and the amount of material to be presented.

Our Philosophy

“To build Websites That Work .” That gives us satisfied clients who generate referrals and provide customers for our hosting services. It's a formula that works as much for the customer as it does for us.

Our approach

We don't just design web pages - we listen to your business problems, help you develop a web strategy, propose search engine strategies, design and implement, monitor visitor behaviour, adapt and design, and then review the strategies. Somewhere in there you'll find a website!

Our success

Based on developing websites that serve the clients needs in that they direct visitors towards a 'most wanted response.' We then ensure that high levels of focussed visitor traffic are generated. It really is as simple as that, and good results are sure to follow! What isn't so simple is getting the traffic - but that's where our SEO (search engine optimisation) skills kick in. By integrating SEO principles and techniques in every stage of the development we ensure that the website will enjoy high search engine visibility.

Even our hosting activities have the objective of delivering server access logs for analysis as they reveal the source of each and every visitor - not just providing search engine statistics but also the very keywords and phrases that were used to find you.

PRICES: Website Design Small, up to 5 pages *    ± R3000.00  Medium, up to 10 pages*    ± R6000.00 Thereafter every page is an additional fee   R250 per page We also offer hosting of email addresses with double anti-virus and spam checking for only R25.00 per person per month.
* Flash animation – Subject to quotation

The following Free Service applies to the Medium Package ONLY:

FREE services:

Website Statistics: Each month we perform an in depth statistical research regarding the amount of hits you are receiving on your site and product site individually as well as the amount of Page views, where the customers are connecting from, daily averages and hits per individual page on your sites. 

Optimisation of Website: We optimise the site by placing the correct keywords (meta tags) for search engines to find your site and register the site address with as many search engines as possible to give optimum search results, resulting in more hits and more business for you our customer.

The Need for Website optimisation: The problem is although you have good website or product website, they are not easily found through Search Engines. Optimisation needs to be done in order for your websites to be successful.

N.B.  70% - 80% of browsers to any website will come via a search engine.

Reasons for a websites not being found by major Search engines like Google, MSN and Ananzi etc are:

1. Most sites are established at a cost of between R3 500
    and R9 000. Very small sites and the larger resource
    sites are the exception rather than the norm

2. Our hosting includes the following:
     - FTP support for remote website maintenance.
     - Minor HTML content changes (at our discretion).
     - Database front ending.
     - Basic page access statistics, which are counter,
        based.
     - Detailed site access statistics from analysis of our
       service logs (on request).
     - Monitoring and alerts for abnormal traffic (drops
       and surges).
     - Consulting opinions on site effectiveness and
       application of new    technologies.

3. This is perhaps the most critical of all our services.
    Your site will be registered with all the major relevant     search engines and directory services as part of the
    initial site registration project. We then monitor the
    visibility of your site as a continuing function of the web     hosting service. Minor amendments and submissions     would be made free of any additional charges and
    usually without your knowledge. As we control our
    own servers we have access to the referral logs
    that enables us to determine where your visitors are     coming from and, most importantly, from whence they
    are not coming. Expected referral pattern matches
    identify the under- performing search engines and
    the registrations are then examined for corrective
    action.