SEO friendly website design tips

[website007]

Avoid creating menu on the left-hand side of a website. If unavoidable, an alternative way is to put some text with rich keywords at the top or above the left-hand menu so that this text will be the first thing to be read by search engines.

Headlines are rated more important than the rest of the web page by search engines . To take advantage of this, you should have your keywords in the page headline. Since the header tag (h1) is quite large, you should format it to make it smaller.

Every page should contain the title and description tags with good keywords to describe the page content. The number of words for the title should not exceed 9 and that for the description should not be more than 20 words in order to keep within the limits of most search engines.

Try not to use Flash when possible . Flash cannot be read by the search engines to date and will cause slow page loading time and make people run away. If you really have a reason to use flash, try to make it smaller (e.g. as a flash header) and leave other area of your website for keyword-rich content.

Think twice on how to use graphics . Make them relevant to your content and use an alt tag with relevant keywords for search engines to read as they cannot read graphics and also for your visitors so that they can have something to read when waiting for the graphics to load.

Do not only use images to link out . You should always use text links to link out to important content on your web site. Spiders can follow image links, but like text links more though.

Avoid using frames . Some search engines cannot spider web pages with frames at all. For the other search engines that can, they can have problems spidering it and sometimes they too cannot index the web page.

Avoid using too complex tables when laying out your page but to keep them simple for the spiders. There are some engines which find it difficult to navigate through to the other pages on your website if the navigation bar is too complicated.

Use external Cascading Style Sheets and Java Script files to reduce page size and make the download time much faster . It will allow the spider to index your web page faster and can help your ranking.
Use standard HTML . Software such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver or a WYSIWYG editor will often add unnecessary scripting codes that will make the page larger than is needed and make it harder to crawl. It will sometimes add codes that cannot be read by search engines, causing the spider not to index the page or even the whole website. If to use, you should use those web page creator software wisely with a good understanding of html so that you may manually avoid or even delete those unnecessary scripting codes.

[mintdesignnz]

Avoid using tables on your web pages. tables have been replaced by stylesheets.

Learn how to use stylesheets for web layouts.

[Karan Singh]

You are correct that flash websites are difficult to crawl by SE and does not given any preference but I had seen many such websites having great PR. Than why is it so.

[dailyearner]

very helpful inforamtion to us seo beginners
thx very much for sharing with us!

[alchemyquiz]

Thank you so much for sharing it with us, its very helpful to SEO beginners.

[AliciaMiller]

This information was very helpful from the seo point of view.....Thanks a ton

[aqzseo]

very nice posting
thanks for sheering with us

[website007]

Hi leftybogs,
Thanks for sharing this information.

[David Cletis]

There are some tips that would help you to achieve an SEO-friendly website:

1. Search engine spiders are never able to read the images and flash on your site. They only read the text and a content-rich site would surely help you gain a visibility in the top pages of the search engines.
2. Rather, you should try and maintain a balance between the content and the flash/images you use on the site.
3. The URL of your website should be search-engine friendly and able to denote the purpose of the site. They ought to be clean and optimized.
4. The important keywords and phrases are a necessity to the search-engine friendliness of the page. The Title, Meta, and the Alt tags ought to contain important keywords.
5. Optimize the size of the web page by clean and semantic coding so that it can be read easily.
6. The content of your website should be rich and contain appropriate amount of keywords and phrases so that it is relevant for the search engine spiders as well as the visitors.

[Dynamicweb]

A website cannot work well unless it is not effectively designed as per visitors and search engine point of view. A professional website can be designed with web design tips and web design service provider can help you to achieve what you desire.

[Brooks Ash]

1. Avoid creating menu on the left-hand side of a website. If unavoidable, an alternative way is to put some text with rich keywords at the top or above the left-hand menu so that this text will be the first thing to be read by search engines.

2. Headlines are rated more important than the rest of the web page by search engines. To take advantage of this, you should have your keywords in the page headline. Since the header tag (h1) is quite large, you should format it to make it smaller.

3. Every page should contain the “title” and “description” tags with good keywords to describe the page content. The number of words for the title should not exceed 9 and that for the description should not be more than 20 words in order to keep within the limits of most search engines.

[saradhaseo]

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[Ken Peterson]

Thanks for sharing informative post.