FAQ

We’re practically dinosaurs in the internet business. When we came into existence, people found us through online directories and – gasp – the phone book! To be listed first, your name had to start with numbers. We were pretty wise to that back then and crafted a name that would allow people to find us easily. We’re located right off Interstate 270 in Maryland, so it works. The “net” part? The internet is our playground and we’re an authority in it. More than 15 years later, the name still represents who we are, where we started, and our aim to be a solution for all things technology. We’ve evolved since the early days and are eager to see what 2020 brings!

Four words: Work Hard, Play Hard. And we don’t give those words lip service. Our atmosphere is smart, casual, and challenging. Once, our printer died. This was our response: 270net Print Error

What matters most is that we value innovation and we offer the time, space, and atmosphere that encourages continued improvement and sharing of constructive criticism. Once you get to know us you’ll find that we’re often testing new tools, improving your services, and adding another technique to our arsenal. Everything we are is dynamic and ever-changing, paired with an evergreen heart for good work, transparency, and growth for ourselves and our clients.

Our approach to this simple: we’ll find the best solution for you within your budget. Our promise to you is that we’ll do everything in our power to offer you the best return on your investment and if we can’t give you that – we’ll tell you.

We don’t just crank out concepts and hope you like one. Our process includes a kickoff call, research, wireframes, style guide, color concepts, and more. It’s robust, and rare at our price point.

A responsive website design will detect the size of the display that it is being accessed from and adjust the layout accordingly. This means that your website will look fantastic on all devices, big and small. Does it matter? Yes.

Learn more here: Is your Website Ready for Mobile First Indexing?

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Ask us! We’ll send you a current pricing sheet. SEO starts at $449/month and website design starts at $399/month.

SEO is the process of managing website content in a way that improves the site’s rankings on search engines such as Google, Bing and – important in 2018 – Google Mobile. The goal of SEO is to bring more visitors to your website.

Read: Is Your Site Ready for Mobile-First Indexing?

YOU. When shopping around for SEO services, be sure to read the fine print – and make sure that any content created or optimization performed belongs to you, and only you.

Many companies that provide SEO services are charging you to “lease” the content. What does that mean? It means that if you discontinue their services, they take your content and optimization back. We think that’s stealing, and when you pay for SEO services through 270net, you own the work that you pay us to complete.

No. In fact, we would recommend you be very leery of any marketing company that does guarantee SEO results. Why? Here’s a scenario: You decide to hire a company to build a new, fast website and perform robust SEO on your website, and they guarantee that they’ll rank you. Three of your competitors eventually realize that you’ve done this…. and they decide to quintuple their marketing budgets in response. What was once a guarantee is now long gone.

Your instinct is correct – many do. But we don’t. At 270net, our in-house team of trained specialists handle your SEO – and each and every one of them are our employees, not our contractors.

We like to say that a reasonable time frame is 2-3 months from the start of the project to begin to see results. SEO is an ongoing process.