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Search Engine Optimisation Design Overview

 

50Website Design Tips

 

 

Make sure people dont back button your site because of it's design criteria.

Use a little more white space than your typically used to. Why? Websites scroll up and down. People will tend to scan across the text.

 


Use font sizes above 9pt.

 

As soon as a person enters your site.... they are immediately lost. Make sure your page shows clearly what's on offer.

 

 

Website Design Tips

 


The amazing and wonderful capabilities of the www and all the latest software and plug-in options is that it gives everybody the opportunity to build pages. The negative, is that some site designs are difficult to determine what the site has to offer.

 

Design does have an effect on your website. Too much coding and you lose PTTR, if the site is ugly, people will back button thus reducing your online-on page time.
Learn More Page to Text Ratio

 

If you use a great looking flash presentation for your site, that page will not be spidered easily. When using flash, make sure you have at least 100 pages pointing to the page and ENSURE that your title and description tag are perfectly written.

 

Spend extra time on navigation, a sites design will rest on it's navigation quality.

 

If you need help designing a website, try purchasing a template OR ask a friend to help. Keep it simple at first. Make sure you read lots of pages on this site and other sites that offer genuine free advice.

 

Use Heading and Bold functions that give your page a lift, importantly, both these tags are part of the overall site score given to you by search engines around the world.

 

Write the pages to suit the design. If your pages do not allow 400 character paragraphs consider altering the table or CSS layout to accommodate more text. The only page you should carefully script for maximum SEO is the home page of your website. This is because everybody will get lost from time to time.

 

Keep your column width to approximately 10-12 words wide. The longer the sentence carries across the web page, the harder is to read multiple pages for a long period. There is a great article written here about suitable column widths for use online.

 

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For your first site, keep your imagery less. To gain a high rank quickly, the Search Engines will look at the textual properties of your pages. Images should be you second design element criteria.

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Look carefully at the load page times. On most html software available there is a small speed rating that looks like:
0:04@256kbps  This the estimated page load time. Above 11 seconds per page and your in trouble.

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Design your websites for growth. Make sure that whatever design you choose, it can be grown for more than 150 pages. One day in the future, you will be grateful you made the decision to allow an expandable site to begin.

The most important tip we can give you is..

 

ALWAYS MAKE SURE YOUR FOLDER STRUCTURE IS SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY

 

There are lots of pages explaining other tips, however, if you are creating a new site or modifying an existing domain, the manner in which the folders, sub-domain folders, sub web folders and file names are stored is vital to making a great site that works.

Learn More Folder Set Up and File Names

Learn More sub Folder Set up - critical page to read

 

Next > Language Tag and how to use it

The manner is which a design is first accepted will affect the reader

Coding and markup are vital elements for success, HOWEVER, if your pages turn away people visually, change the design.

We suggest that you look closely at how the site performs and take advice on layout design.

If you are starting to enjoy our pages related to getting a site to top 10, we would love you to bookmark us or add a link on your site to here. There are even tips to help you get better outside links.

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