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Do you think that web design has an effect in SEO and building traffic? Can I have a very basic design and still have good traffic? Or do I really need to study web design?

A very basic design is okay. But nowadays, visitors or people likes to see beautiful designs or something eye-catching.. Specially with colors, graphics and let's say art.

Design plays a good role on optimization. Specially with the website usability. A good navigation will be a lot better than just a plain basic.

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attractive design attracts visitors to return back ...

useful content also attracts visitors to return back on ur blog and subscribe to it as well.

and yea nowadays people like to see unique designs which can b said eye catchy designs and u must have noticed with many famous blogs too ...

can see johncow blog for an example

Make site for users not for search engine. Simple design is always good, just avoid those dont's that google guidelines mentioned.

There are many factors that affect website success and web design is one of them. The reason I say website success instead of SEO is that many times people get caught up in SEO as the end-all goal of their website - it isn't! Conversions are the goal and many factors affect it.

Here is a list of the main factors that affect conversions, and details behind the list can be found at our web development blog on our site by clicking my sig below then the Blog link at left:
· highly aesthetic design
· fast load times
· persuasive, benefit-oriented content
· error free web (W3C) standards compliant code
· Search Engine Optimized (SEO) content
· Undergo Competitive Analysis
· high degree of usability
· Accessibility Standards Compliant
· continually tested and updated
· promoted in appropriate top website properties
· Incorporate analytics
· Use a Content Management System (CMS)

I do not thing the design effect SEO.. but on page optimization and keyword distribution on the site is helps

You can have millions of people going to your site every day from SEO but if the design stinks and people leave as soon as they get there then it's not worth it.

Design really matters in optimizing a site (ex. the format (is it dynamic or static?, images (jpg or animated?), etc.). But it's particularly for the benefit of your visitors. It should be user-friendly an easy to navigate.

People nowadays are looking for usefriendly websites, meanings sites that has easier navigation, fast loading page and most of all interesting content, so if you pay enough attention on this one it will be easier to gain success..

Design is very important and plays a big factor when it comes to customer appeals. Not only with user but also with the spiders. Spiders like to crawl sites specially if your site has the right website structures.

I think yes, It tells how good your site is. Content, user friendly and well created.