SEO Design - Search Optimised Website Design for Higher Search Results
If you want your website to appear higher in search engine results then website design is not just about how appealing the website looks, much more importantly it is about good design principles in html coding, page structure, CSS style sheets and many, many more factors including the proper use of keywords.
- Is your website easy for visitors to use?
- Do all of the links work and does the link text include keywords for the destination page?
- Do you have alt and title tags, using the keywords for your page, on all graphics?
- Is it easy for visually impaired people to use your website, ie do all images have relevant descriptions?
- Is your website set up in a way that enables it to be read by the search engines in the way you would wish and is your content relevant?
- Do you have duplicate content? Are you aware of how this affects your website's performance in search engine results?
See our suggestions and information with regard to improving both the functional and visual design of your website so that your website is optimised for both visitors and search engines. SEO from SEO4all.
Search Engine Friendly Web Design
If you read my article on How Search Engines Work, you will see that the search engine spiders find websites and web pages by following links on pages they have already crawled and indexed. Therefore if you want the spiders to easily find your pages you need to make sure the structure of your website is flat. You should be able to get to every page on your website using a maximum of 2 clicks from your home page although ideally there should be a direct HTML link from your home page to every page on your website. [More....]
Check Whether Your Website Complies With Disability Accessibility Requirements
To test to see whether your website is accessible by people with disabilities do try the following. Although the report will cover many of the required criteria some criteria will need to be manually checked however the report will make this clear. [More....]
Error Checking Your New Website
Once you have a great design, good clear navigation and wonderfully informative content you need to check that the coding is ok and to do this use the W3C validator for XHTML/HTML and for CSS. Poor coding can lead to problems with the search engines. The link above will take you to the W3C website.
301 Redirecting Pages After Redesigning Your Website
If you redesign your website by moving pages or redesign your whole website you should use redirects so that both visitors and search engines know where the page has moved to, this will help you maintain your page rankings. Look at 301 Redirects for a guide to using 301 redirects.
What are Keywords and How to Use Them
Keywords and key phrases cause a great deal of confusion. If you search on the internet you will find many many different views. Many people will say that keywords are no longer relevant in search optimising (SEO) and that causes even more confusion, however when making these statements they are invariably referring to the meta tag "keywords"; they are not referring to the use of words that are important ie key, to your trade or business. [More....]
Search Engine Friendly Websites
Optimise your website for visitors and you will be optimising it for search engines. But you should also make sure that the website is technically correct so that you are making your website search engine friendly - poor coding and structure can cause both search engine and browser problems. [More....]
Desire Solutions CMS(I)
S3 Web Design, another of our companies, provide well constructed easily indexed websites for very reasonable prices. We do not use any free or online content management systems, everything we use is written in-house and therefore all modules perfectly integrate with each other.
Our first level CMS system (Desire Solutions CMS(I)) has been used to build this website. The meta tags, headings and body text can all be simply and quickly altered within minutes and should you wish the body text can be entered using html code or alternatively as normal text. The choice is yours when ordering the website. Every page on this website can be edited and for from £650 you can have a 9 page website like this with a page design of your choice. A Desire Solutions CMS(I) website can be up and running within a week. S3 Web Design will also host your website and hosting for the first year is included in the price.
Contact us for further information on 07980 852087 or visit the website.