3
important points for making a high ranking web site page design
Page
to Text RatioSummary
Never use a space between file names or folders.
Never overload keywords.
Never put numbers inside a folder or filename.
Never put special characters inside a folder or filename.
Website Design Tips Page
Obtaining
a high ranking is very important
The more visitors that STAY on your pages, the more successful your online shopping store, information site or general interest site will be.
Obtaining a high ranking is not the only way to build a web site successfully.
Getting a high ranking will come over time, in the meantime, you should concentrate on...
1 The Site must load quickly and remain valid to the reader.
2 Your site should look great. If you are new to web design, consider purchasing a website template. These are very cheap and can immediately remove common web page faults and your learning errors. If you have a site, and it looks good but is slow, reduce the imagery file sizes. Read all the articles on this site! Any small improvement will mean more page traffic.
3 Be consistent with your page designs, use headlines, menu placements, easily identified hyperlinks and common formats. Write pages that are relevant and lead to expanded or more detail pages. If you own an online shopping store, make your navigation your top priority.
Also, consider these tips:
- Make sure all links are working. You never want to get error messages.
- Use readable Fonts.
- Come straight to the point on every page.
- Use clear and easily understandable link language that can be followed.
- Answers questions quickly. On each page, use headlines to highlight each section, product or category.
- Everybody will get lost, ensure the home page is easy to find.
- Keep your pictures fast.
Buying Web Page Templates
If you are purchasing a web site template, look for the following aspects regardless of how the template looks.
- Choose a template with an .html extension
- Never choose an intensive 'image sliced' background or heavily 'imaged' looking page. Always opt for text based pages.
- Never choose a 'picture menu' template, in particular, avoid rollover image menus. These look great, but will dramatically effect your sites user friendliness.
- Avoid CSS picture link rollovers, you may have seen these. Hover over a hyperlink and the borders disappear, and take milliseconds to reappear. This is detrimental to the viewer.
- Never choose a template that uses Poor URL Name coding or non indexed formats, characters or ID's.
- Avoid templates that can not easily be extended to more than 150 pages.
- Suggestion: If you like a template that will meet your requirements, make sure your visit 'live stores', 'live sites' etc. that are using the template. Check out other people's sites before purchasing.
- Ensure you test in lots of different browsers, screen sizes and on both PC and MAC.
Web Page templates are reasonably cheap and can save you hours of time and actually give you a better SEO result providing they match all of your requirements and are Search Engine Friendly. The rest is up to your knowledge and suggestions found our this and other SEO sites.
Test with different browsers, use a friends system to check your site, Measure speed, links, menu's and overall ease of use
Get a friend to let you know improvements.