1. Registration
A web design company may register with WWDC from the current sub-sites we have running: UK, USA, Canada, Ireland, India.
There are 2 ways to register with WWDC:
1. Complete registration
This follows a 3-step registration wizard. Once you have successfully submitted all the steps of the wizard, your company will be registered and listed at WWDC.
This registration requires full contact details, services details, logo and one client (with screenshot) to be uploaded. It takes about 15 minutes to complete this registration.
We hightly recommend to log into your WWDC account once you have registered and continue improving your profile. WWDC provides a wide variaty of tools and information to be published about your company. This helps your potencial clients in their search. Higher profile quality also improves your rank position in search results.
2. Quick registration
If you are short on time, you may also use the 1-step quick registration, however your company will NOT be listed at WWDC after the completion of the registration. You will need to log into your account at WWDC and fill in the rest of the required infomation.
WWDC requires certain information to be published / uploaded to our website in order to become listed.
If your profile is not complete, WWDC will notify you about this once you log in to our website. You will find a highlighted link on your left company menu "{company name} not listed at WWDC". Click this link to see what information is still missing.
Once all the information has been supplied, your company will be listed at WWDC immediately.
This page shows when you log into your WWDC account.
It contains a general overview of your current status and recent actions at WWDC. It also contains suggestions and shortcuts to different sections within your profile.
Each web design company has a contact form in the "contact" section of their profile. When a visitor submits this form, you get a message into your Inbox and an email notifying you about it.
You need to log into your WWDC account to view this message.
This page allows you to edit basic information about your company such as contact details. It also allows you to change your login email and password.
Edit important information about your company, such as logo, descriptions, keywords, information regarding your clients and much more.
Tell your potential clients what services you have most experience with and what are your approximate prices.
Stand out of the crowd! Tell us more about yourself. These miscellaneous questions will bring you closer to your potential clients.
If you are proud of your work, show it !
WWDC allows you to upload up to 6 clients. The more you upload, the better for you and your potential clients.
Each client can be edited and removed.
Most of the information about your clients is required to ensure high quality standard of the uploaded clients.
This is the list of all your reviews.
Your clients are allowed to review your services at WWDC. Any visitor to WWDC can review any web design company only once.
Once you are registered with WWDC, you can use the "request reviews" tool to send a bulk email to your clients and ask them to review you. Your clients will receive an email with a link to review your company.
The process of receiving reviews:
- visitor finds your company at WWDC or receives a review request from you
- reviewer supplies the review and ratings
- reviewer receives an email with confirmation link to confirm their identity
- once a review has been confirmed, you will receive a notification email with link to view the review
- you may (once logged in) manage this review, add your comments, decline the review or report it as abusive.
Accepting / Declining a review
You may decline the review you have received and comment on it. In such case, the review will be shown among your reviews, however will be marked as not accepted for the visitors to see. Declined reviews negatively affect your WWDC Rank.
If you receive an unfair, biased or abusive review, please report it to WWDC. You may do this in the page where you manage the review.
Resend confirmation email
The reviewer may not receive the confirmation email after supplying the review. In such case, your will see this review as not confirmed and you may resend the confirmation email to the reviewed. This option can be found in the details section of the review in "our reviews" section of your profile.
Report abusive / incorrect review
Web design companies have the option to report any of their reviews to WWDC as abusive or incorrect. In such case, WWDC will try to take measures to sort the problem.
To learn more about reviews from the reviewer's point of view, read the "For those reviewing a Web Design Company" section of this page.
Web design companies may publish articles at WWDC.
There's no limit to the number of published articles. Each article is checked by WWDC.
Simple formatting options are available for the publisher.
The number of articles and their quality (based on visitor reviews) affects the company's WWDC Rank.
WWDC allows web design companies to recommend other business they collaborate with or use their services. You may recommend one company in each of the following areas:
- Hosting company
- SEO company
- Printer
- Accountant
- Solicitor / Lawyer
You may not recommend yourself.
There are 2 options when choosing a company to recommend:
- choose a company that has already been recommended by others
- add a new company that has not been recommended by others yet
If you are the first to recommend a company, you will have the right to edit the recommended company's contact information.
WWDC allows you to request your existing clients to review you.
This tool uses a 3-step form wizard to collect the recipients' email addresses, edit the email text to be sent and finally sends the emails.
Once a request has been sent, you may view the list of requested reviews and see if the person has clicked on the link provided in the email.
Requests can be resent using a simple "checkbox" functionality.
Use our marketing tools to show your clients how good you are!
Use any of the graphics with links to your profile page at WWDC. These graphics show your current up-to-date overall rating.
WWDC Rank is affected by the number of views your company profile gets. External views from other websites have a higher value. This means that if you use a link to drive someone to your profile from other websites, it is considered external view.
If you prefer to use a simple link to your profile (not using the graphics), use the permalink that you can find in your Home page.
WWDC's main aim is to provide the people interested in web design companies with best possible search results to find the company that best fits their needs.
To ensure the best possible ranking, we have introduced the WWDC Rank. WWDC Rank is calculated using a complicated algorithm considering all possible input that we have available at WWDC and is constantly being improved.
The following areas of company profile affect the WWDC Rank (listed randomly):
- profile quality
- number of clients uploaded
- statistics about how many people view the company's profile
- statistics about external views on company's profile (clicks from other websites)
- number and quality of reviews
- how often the company returns to WWDC and updates their profile
- statistics on reviews being helpful / not helpful to visitors
- articles submitted and their rating
- other
WWDC Rank is presented in % of maximum possible points. It is virtually impossible to achieve 100%. WWDC Rank is recalculated on daily basis. As WWDC evolves and the overall quality of profiles of web design companies registered improves, it is going to be more and more difficult to keep your WWDC Rank growing.
We hope WWDC Rank will create a healthy competition among web design companies once WWDC has become "the place" to search for web designers.
How can I improve our rank?
- put links to your profile on your website and any other places you can; external links are very valuable
- ask all your clients to review you
- upload as many clients as possible
- keep you profile updated regularly
- submit articles to wwdc and let people know about your knowhow
- other suggestions will come soon :)
