There are many mistakes committed by web designers and developers while designing and developing a website. If they are done by starters, it is understandable but if happens due to web designing myths then surely they need training.  The question arises why they commit silly mistakes?  The answer is quite simple, they over try with the design and try to make it eye pleasing by using excessive flash or unnecessary images, fooling are the known mistakes done by designers and developers:

Splash page

This is the mistake where people put banner image and write “click here to enter”.  The flash object makes it more complicated and impracticable for the search spiders to detect it.

Non spiderable Flash Menus

Making flash and animated menus is the killer for your website.  It lowers down the sites’ ranking and also not friendly for the users.

Using flash in content

Web spiders are always text oriented, they can’t detect text when used flash in it.  It might look attractive visually but literally can ruin up your website.

Overdoing with Ajax

Developers try to make their mark and use Ajax massively. It makes navigational structure very complicated and also it is not appreciated by search engine spiders.

Versioning of Theme Design

You can lose back links and your search engine ranking can decrease sue to versioning the theme design. It’s a big don’t from SEO point of view.

“Click Here” Link Anchor Text

It is a great technique if you want your search engine ranking high but if you want to show how important your page is for a certain topic then don’t do that.

Image Alt Attribute

The image should always be described in alt attribute. This actually explains your image to the user. It is a huge SEO flaw not to use the alt attributes.

Miscellaneous

·         Know your audience before designing the website and use color scheme accordingly.

·         Know your clines’ business and design the site that should complement the business theme.

·         Don’t over try with keywords in the content; the excessive density is a spam.

·         Make sure the page titles are editable.

·         Make sure the most relevant content should be prominent.

·         Make URLs user friendly.

·         Optimize images.

By avoiding these mistakes a website can become very much SEO oriented and can achieve high rankings.

Over to You

Do you know about other SEO mistakes that are commonly made by web designers and developers? Please, do let us know by commenting

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Introduction

In this era of technology enhancement, Internet has become the major source of information. If we need any kind of information, we usually consult from the Search Engines (particularly Google). Why? Because of the reason, Search Engine’s increased searching capabilities.

Thus every website owner wants now online visibility on top search engines. And for this you need to follow search engine guidelines. These are the guidelines which are helpful in the Search engine optimization of your website.

URL Rewriting is one of the good techniques followed in Search Engine Optimization. Consider more understanding of URL Rewriting and its importance:

Static URLS Vs Dynamic URLS

Static URL’s are more to be recognizable than dynamic URL’s for the number of reasons:

1. Static URL’s generally rank better in Search Engines.
2. Search Engines Crawls the Content of the static URLs much faster as compare to the dynamic URL.
3. Static URL looks pretty or friendlier to the end-user.

Consider the Example of Static URL’s Vs Dynamic URL’s:

Static URL/Pretty URL:

http://www.design.com/web design/custom web design

Dynamic URL:

http://www.example.com/web design.aspx?design=custom&ID=2065

The above mentioned Dynamic URL has the following problems discussed below:

• When this URL is crawled by the Search engine, it will have very less chance to become on top ranks because the URL do not defines what the page is all about, thus cannot become visible for any keyword.
• The type of URL exposes the underlying technology; in this case it is Asp.net.  This can give clue to the potential hackers about what data they should send along with query string for a front door attack to the website. So technology extensions should keep hide from the web pages.
• The type of URL contains the sticky elements like question mark & ampersand. Those special characters included in the URL are problematic in the case when another website owner will link to your website using this URL it can have issues with their xHTML.
• Some of the Search engines do not crawl or index those pages whose URL’s are dynamically generated.  They’ll see the question mark in the URL and just turned back if they found it.

URL Rewriting Methods:

Readable URL’s are not only demanded by the Search Engines but by the humans as well. The reason is Search Engines are made for human beings not for Machines.

Consider the Example of How URL can be Rewrite for the Search Engines Optimization of your website:

Case to consider:

http://www.yourdomain.com/profile.php?mode=view&u=7

There are two ways by which this dynamic URL can be rewrite:

URL Rewriting in PHP

There are the following requirements for Rewriting the URL in php:

Consider the Five different aspects of URL Rewriting Examples:

1. Rewriting the test.php to test.html

Add the following code into the .htaccess file.

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1.php [nc]

After placing the code, when the URL like http://localhost/test.htm is called in address bar it calls the file test.php.

Here:

$1=First regular expression of the part of the RewriteRule

[nc]= not case sensitive

2. Rewriting product.php?id=12 to product/ipod-nano/12.html

In this technique, you can smartly place the keyword in the url. Like in the above mentioned url, ipod-nano is the product name which is placed in the url after rewriting.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^product/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ product.php?id=$2

3. Redirecting without  www URL to www URL

Sometimes you might have noticed that when you type yahoo.com, you will be redirected to the www.yahoo.com. If you want this type of URL Redirection you can use the following code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{ HTTP_HOST} ^optimaxwebsolutions\.com$

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.optimaxwebsolutions.com/$1 [R=301,L]

4. Rewriting yourdomain /user.php?username=xyz to yourdomain.com/xyz

By the code mentioned below, you can rewrite your URL according to the Method of Directory type as mentioned above in the heading URL Rewriting Methods.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ user.php?username=$1

RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ user.php?username=$1

5. Redirecting the domain to a new subfolder of inside public_html.

Consider the case: If you want to redevelop your site, you can place the new site into the folder named new. It means all the files of redeveloped site is placed inside the root directory of folder named new. Here you need to understand that there can be a mess to paste all the files in the root folder (or can be a hectic process), so we don’t have this option. It means now your website can only be assess by “http://www.test.com/new”. So after placing the following code into the .htaccess file , you can access “www.test.com”, whose files are actually placed in the new folder.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^test\.com$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.test\.com$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/new/

RewriteRule (.*) /new/$1

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We all know by now that websites are designed to increase business growth and generate more customers, and not just irrelevant traffic. But how can one ensure a website design that produces not just traffic but higher conversions also? Simply focusing on the bigger picture and the larger aspects won’t do the trick; because web design is not about “BIG” things, rather it’s about making small things look bigger on your web pages.

We have accumulated a list of to-do. When combined together, the following things can produce conversions beyond imagination. Check out the list and don’t overlook these little wonders when designing your website.

Appearance and User Experience

Develop a critical eye and then analyze your website from the user’s perspective. No doubt we all love our belongings, but you never know the others love the same. Moreover, be very specific about your industry audience requirements. If you want to give a good user experience, layout your website design that meets their needs and truly makes them explore further.

Be Innovative, But Stick to the Established Practices

Being innovative is great only if you don’t choke usability in the process. Make your website stand out by doing something other than the conventional, but don’t forget to keep your roots aligned with the established policies within the industry, or you may hold the risk of losing reliability and user trust in overdoing the innovative aspect.

In The Online World, “Simplicity Is the Best Policy”

Having a good design certainly doesn’t mean you have to be loud, colorful and cluttered. Website simplicity is highly important if you want your visitors to interact with you and not become lost while finding their desired item through the unnecessary designing elements.

Make Things Easy To Find, How?

ALWAYS give your users a search box to find what they’re looking for. Online users are in haste, and they indeed have no time to sit and explore your website in detail like your mom would. So better give them a shortcut and cut out their misery of going through every link to reach the wanted one. You can also improve your website’s search-ability by organizing your entire site’s information in a clear structure.

Use Appropriate Link Descriptions

Anchor linking, by inserting more descriptive text within the link text is a good practice. Also, adding link titles and alt attributes within each link can be effective to gain user interest and access.

How to Get In Touch With You?

Suppose you’re fortunate enough for a visitor to like your products or services, what next? The visitor will instantly look out for your contact information. Make this info easily accessible on your website and all the other web pages, and don’t forget to build an about us and contact us page for the interested prospects.

Website Fonts

Without getting into much detail about font importance, here are the three things to remember regarding your website fonts:

• Font size: Must not be less than 10 points as smaller font is difficult to read.
• Font face: Verdana, specifically built for web use must be used. Also avoid using many fonts and stick to two at the most.
• Font scalability: Instead of using fixed width fonts, permit users to adjust font size by making it scalable.

Be Calm with Using Colors

Online world is different than offline world. You may feel attracted towards loud and funky colors, but you’d hate websites with such eye-hurting colors. Therefore, be careful when selecting contrasting colors for your website and give your website color a mild and harmonized look. To ensure easy web scanning, dark text on a light background is preferred.

Graphics

Graphics should be considered something more than just eye-candy. Each graphic you use must enhance user experience rather than being distracting and irritating.

Call for Action!

Your website may contain elements requiring action from the visitor. Such elements such as linked text or image should be made obvious than the rest of the non-linked stuff by changing its color or making it bold – however method you prefer. Standard link formatting (blue and underlined) should be used for textual links and should change in color when it has been visited. The rest of the text should be in one same color.

Is Your Web Content Readable?

In order to make the words on your site appear readable and interesting for the visitor, try reviving it up a bit. It’s not necessary to insert long text paragraphs to prove your products or services, but simply organizing the already existing content by using short paragraphs and bulleted list may want a reader to scan the information easily.

Using Breadcrumbs

Are you familiar with the “Hackle and Jackle” story where breadcrumbs were used to track their way back home? Imply the same technique on your website for the visitors so they can easily know what their location is on your website and how can they trace their way back.

What about White Space?

What about it? White space is the most important user-friendly aspect you can add to your website. Adding considerable white space will relieve the crammed affect from a website, making the information more visible and easy to understand.

Follow these simple but important website designing tips, and you’ll witness your website’s traffic converting into long term customers in no time!

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It’s useless to have the best designed website which no one can find! Many web designers often ignore search engine optimization to improve their website’s search engine results page rankings. In this article, we’ve shared some quick and easy SEO tips all designers should be using in their layouts.

Tip 1: Employ SEO techniques right from the start of web design and development.

Tip 2: Designs must be given more importance, but it’s basically the back-end code that provides proper support. Therefore, try optimizing the code and checking for W3C compliance from the very beginning.

Tip 3: Don’t forget the basics including title tags, Meta tags, Meta descriptions, Header tags etc.

Tip 4: Don’t forget to optimize your website images using alt tags. Also make sure to optimize the image size and loading time to the minimum.

Tip 5: Search engines simply adore text and content, particularly the unique one. So make sure your pages have relevant content to boost your search rankings. Try not to overload your web design with so many graphic, but have appropriate text too.

Tip 6: Flash is cool and interactive feature to engage users, but it doesn’t work with flash. If you really want to put some flash on your website, use flash banners and slideshows, and keep alternative text versions for websites in full flash.

Tip 7: Competitive analysis is also crucial to know your competitor’s status. This way you can not only improve your own rankings, but also defeat them in areas where they are showing poor results.

Tip 8: Optimize your website URL’S with your relevant keywords. Assign a different title name to each page, and don’t repeat the same title throughout the entire site. Moreover, the page title must not exceed 65 characters.

Tip 9: Replace JavaScript sin navigation menu with CSS based navigation. Using JavaScript can make your menu less search engine friendly but you can some use of its features in a CSS menu and retain the fanciness of the navigational menu.

Tip 10: Use a SEO friendly design that does not block or hamper the indexing of important areas on your site. Also, to ensure both search engine and user friendliness keep your keyword rich content above the fold.

These 10 tips will help you design a website that works equally well on search engines and give your design the exposure and traffic it needs to survive in the online marketplace.