Looking for an open source or wordpress designer that knows seo best practices

[forecastedinvestments]

I have almost lost my patience in trying to find a web developer for our project.  I have searched high and low from freelancers to us based firms.  All I can find; freelancers that can't get the job done, but promise they can and us based firms that are currently getting away with murder charging through the nose on work that is not acceptable to say the least.

US based Firms

1. Seem to give you as little work as possible to increase their margin.  I get it we all need to make money.

2. Everyone knows how to do everything until you start telling them that you have a little education in the industry and will be testing their work.  All of the sudden they no longer talk to you.

3. Got a few recommendations and they are all subpar performers.   After asking them why their builds load so slow or have so many errors they have excuses that point to the customer

Freelancers over seas.

1. I am not sure where to start with this.  I have searched high and low in freelancer for someone that I can trust to build a site.  Of course there is a ton of junk to look through.  After countless hours of narrowing down the individuals I am thinking of giving a shot I find that they are not capable of the job.

All I want is a new website from a firm that is honest and knows what they are doing.  That is educated in seo best practices.  That can build a quality website and actually has references of sites they built that are still up and running and test out alright.

It is pretty bad when web development companies miss simple items like h tags.  Really?

Does anyone know of someone that knows what they are doing?  That can work with someone that knows how to run a dvd player.  Just disappointing to see all these web companies and freelancers that get away with murder.

Who earns their keep in this industry?!?!?!?

[RyanKent]

please delete. When I try to delete my reply, I receive an error message.

[forecastedinvestments]

Two years ago I had no experience what so ever with web design, development, or seo.  Didn't know what it was.  Through a lot of work and finding this site and the great people on it I was able to build something that pulled organic returns and was acceptible enough to get some art sold on our site www.originalartbroker.com

I originally built it as a favor for a friend with no budget as a side project.  Just wanted to learn being I am the owner of three small businesses.

I have reached the point where we have made a few sales and can justify spending the money to build a professional website by someone that "knows" what they are doing.

In the last month and a half I have looked through over 100 freelancers and dozens of us based firms to find someone that can build us a new site that conforms with todays best seo practices.

During this endevor all I can find junk.  There doesn't seem to be a firm out there that caters to anything, but the blind.  My homestead.com site that I have built out performs most of the refrences these companies send over.  That is a little disappointing considering I know so little about development and seo.  I have so little experience.

I would love to find a frim that has a good product and isn't looking to build their margin by cutting corners.   I don't need one more pitch that includes for another 1k we can tell you what sites your competitors link to and what keywords are used to enter their sites.

Bottom line is we are ready to take the next step and ready to dump this bloated site.  Ready to hire someone that can manage the seo of our site as I am far to busy.  Someone that is honest and will give us what we are paying for.

[OgyDog]

Hi Ryan,

last week you agreed to schedule a conference call with our sales rep and I, then did not show up for the meeting.

You have not replied either to change the date or why you missed the scheduled meeting.

Again I wish you the best of luck but you won't make any progress with your current approach.

Best,

Ogy

[forecastedinvestments]

I appologize.  I never got the meeting??  I did talk to someone from your firm, but no one set the meeting to me and would love to hear what you guys have to say and what you can do.  Sending you a pm with my number