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Logo Design Team Review

Way back when I first changed to the current theme, I mentioned that the logo had been done by the folks over at Logo Design Team.

I wanted to highlight some of their services.

First, I was very happy with the process of logo design through them. I’ve tried some of the cut-rate logo design people on the various forums, and found that generally what you get is stock shapes and fancy text. If that’s what you want for your logo, then you’re set. But the Logo Design Team folks designed several possible original logos based on my input, and then made changes based on my (sometimes very picky) feedback.

The logo I ended up with was exactly what I wanted, and a cut above the cut-rate folks. Well worth the investment for me.

Some of the services they’ve added since I worked with them are worth a mention.

Logo Repair

Their Logo Repair service is an alternative to having a logo designed from scratch. You have to have a logo first, but if you do they can tweak it to make it more modern, adapt it to changing circumstances, etc.

This is also useful if you have a JPG of your logo, but nothing more. They can take the JPG and produce higher quality source files that can be used for print, letter heads, etc.

Holiday Logo Design

Their Holiday Logo Design service is a great idea that I wish I could afford to take advantage of. They’ll take your existing logo, and adapt it to a specific holiday. For example, for my logo they might add a Santa hat to the world, or show a sleigh circling it, for Christmas.

If you’re in business for the long-term, investing in some holiday logos will add to your site’s attractiveness. Look at how well Google does changing its logo for special occasions.

Logo Reseller Opportunity

Their Logo Reseller Opportunity is an opportunity for you to create your own logo design business, using the Logo Design Team folks as your designer. You work with your customers, charging them what you’d like. Logo Design Team does the work and you earn the difference between what they charge you and what you charged your customer.

This is certainly not something for everyone, but if you’ve been looking for a business to run, this might be a good fit.

I’ve only tried the logo design, but like I said above was very happy with it. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend the Logo Design Team.

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Learning From Your Bounce Rate

Anyone creating web site content should learn from their site’s bounce rate.

The bounce rate for a web site is the percentage of web visitors that land on a page on your site, and don’t look at anything else. They don’t read other articles on your site…and if you’re writing a blog, this should probably concern you.

What does your site’s bounce rate tell you?

Landing Page Targeting

First, you should be able to see the bounce rate for various search terms people have used to find your site. If you cannot, switch to something like Google Analytics, which gives you this info.

If some of those search terms have higher bounce rates than others, that tells you that the landing pages for those terms are not highly targeted. People are coming to your site looking for specific information, and not finding it.

This is a terrific opportunity! Look at the search terms that have higher than average bounce rates, and write landing pages for them that are highly targeted. Link to the highly targeted page from the one that the search engines are sending traffic.

Eventually the search engines will send traffic directly to the new pages, but for now visitors should see the links and be able to get to the targeted pages. By giving your visitors what they’re looking for, you can increase your site’s value to them.

For example, Online Opportunity gets some hits for the search phrase “diy tracking affiliate links”. Those hits go to my post about DIY Link Cloaking. Traffic for that search phrase has a 100% bounce rate, because they’re looking for tracking links, not link cloaking.

I could write a post about tracking affiliate links, and my keyword research has already been done for me by Google Analytics. I know there’s a (small) demand, I know what keyword to use, and I feel that I know what the visitors are looking to find.

You don’t often get guaranteed targeted traffic handed to you, unless you pay attention to high bounce rates on your site.

What’s A Good Bounce Rate?

That’s impossible to say. That’s why I suggested you look for bounce rates that are higher than average for your site.

Bounce rates vary widely based on:

o) Your niche
o) The type of your site (e.g. store, blog, info site, MFA site, etc)
o) Your style of writing
o) The quality of your writing
o) Your use of graphics

and more.

When Is A High Bounce Rate Good?

There are times when a high bounce rate is good. Primarily, if you’re running an MFA (Made For Adsense) site, you don’t care about keeping visitors on your site. You want them to click through to ad links that earn you money. So a high bounce rate isn’t really an issue for you.

Overall, though, you want to keep bounce rates low, so that people see more than one page on your site. That gives you more than one opportunity to take search engine traffic and convert them into regular readers.

What sorts of bounce rates do you typically see?