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Top 10 SEO Tips for Web Designers

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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.

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#3 Gomez on 01.04.10 at 8:05 pm

You mention optimizing page load / image size. Does page load time impact search results? I know Google made a lot of noise about speeding up the Web recently, so I'm curious if it's impacting rankings.
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#4 Allan Duncan on 01.05.10 at 6:09 am

Good tips you posted. There are still many web designers or maybe those who are not aware of SEO that these simple tips will well help them in their search engine placement.

#5 Martin Metzmacher on 01.05.10 at 8:57 pm

@Gomez load time is actually now important for your rankings in the Google. The fast you site loads

#6 Glendelm Web Design on 01.06.10 at 1:23 am

Hey these are some great tips you've posted here. I often forget many of the basics of SEO (title, meta, headers etc.) and have to go back to sorting it all out afterwards. Thanks for sharing.

#7 Amit Shah on 01.06.10 at 4:46 am

Good Tips.
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#8 jamesparker on 01.06.10 at 5:05 am

Yes, surely page load time do matter and even now Google has announced it too. Google has released a plugin for optimizing page speed. It will impact you rankings because if your competitor has a well optimized website than surely Google is going to put it before you. Also, the Google bot doesn't spend much time to load your web page if it takes long enough. So, optimizing your web pages to have shortest load time is always good.
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#9 jamesparker on 01.06.10 at 5:07 am

This is quite true, some of the designer don't know or they ignore it someway. This happened to me too even, I had my website W3C validated and ignored my blog. So, such mistakes we do commit but it is always ideal to have things taken care very well.
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#10 jamesparker on 01.06.10 at 5:08 am

Exactly, not only for Google but also for the visitors.
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#11 jamesparker on 01.06.10 at 5:10 am

The best approach is to have a checklist for such little tips and activities. Once you go along with your work, track it via your checklist.
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#12 jamesparker on 01.06.10 at 5:11 am

YSlow is really good. Google has also release its page speed plugin similar to YSlow. Both of these plugins work well.
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wonderful tips given here and i really appreciate it that you shared so useful and helpful with the readers of this blog.

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#15 jamesparker on 01.08.10 at 5:00 am

Glad to know that the post is helpful to you. These are only 10 tips and if we could go for more than definitely there is good return.
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#16 Helpfulguy on 01.08.10 at 9:38 am

I agrees! Many web designers often ignore search engine optimization to improve their website’s search engine results page rankings. W e all know that SEO is the great way of having good rankings, unless you're not following those effective strategies. This would be a break! I'm sure a lot of web designers can really gather a lot of information in this post!
Thanks for sharing!
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#17 jamesparker on 01.08.10 at 11:57 am

Glad to know that the post is helpful.
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#18 jamesparker on 01.11.10 at 7:15 am

Thanks for dropping in, yes we designers often forget or ignore these SEO tips which can really be beneficial.

#19 Ashley on 01.12.10 at 10:41 am

Beautiful tips for SEO novice.. Tip 8 is more useful for the beginners who start their carrier in SEO. This post is useful for the Web designers also.
Thanks for posting.

#20 jamesparker on 01.13.10 at 5:55 am

Ashley, I am glad to know that you find the post helpful. These little tips help a lot and we often ignore/forget them.
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#28 Ashley on 01.25.10 at 11:14 am

Nice SEO tips.. Very helpful to me.. Now i get more ideas about SEO.. I think Content is king in every website.If the content is good we may get good rankings in search engine..

I have already bookmarked this page for my future reference..

#29 Kavin Arora on 02.05.10 at 11:30 am

This is excellent and useful seo tips. Thanks for sharing the information.

#30 Web Design Solutions on 02.10.10 at 9:33 am

This is surely the points that any SEO should opt for. These are the things that will make your sites ranking improve. I agree with what Ashley that "content is king". I have read endless amount of articles that point out that the more relevant your content is the more it counts.

Great post! Keep it up!

#31 SEO Dubai on 04.17.12 at 10:59 pm

In todays world, most of the new web designer don’t know about what is SEO and how important is it. They just focus on great, eye catchy designs and the client (who doesn’t aware of SEO either) looks at the design he think that he is going to dominate the world.

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