Website Design Guide by iFeeder

The Key to Better Websites A Navigation

The Key to Better Websites B Design

5 Important Rules in Website Design

Good Design Practices

The Importance of A Good Design

5 Ways to Keep Visitors Coming Back

The Importance of a Sitemap

Who Is Your Audience

How To Have Websites Built For You The Cheap Way

Improve Usability of Your Website

Pros and Cons of Flash-based Sites

Website Customization

Why You Should Use Graphic Templates

Mistakes To Avoid When Using Web Templates

Building Your Mailing List with Downloads

Reducing Load Time Through Image Optimization

Generating Revenue with Good Planning

Make It Easy To Buy From Your Site

Ways To Improve Sales Through Your Website

Web Design Elements You Should Avoid Having on Your Site

When Is the Right Time to Redesign

Why Hire A Designer

Search Engine Friendly Pages

There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AltaVista and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors.

Major search engines use programs called crawlers or robots to index websites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, read the content of the page and record it in their own database, pulling up the listing as people search for it.

If you want to make your site indexed easily, you should avoid using frames on your website. Frames will only confuse search engine robots and they might even abandon your site because of that. Moreover, frames make it difficult for users to bookmark a specific page on your site without using long, complicated scripts.

Do not present important information in Flash movies or in images. Search engine robots can only read text on your source code so if you present important words in Flash movies and images rather than textual form, your search engine ranking will be affected dramatically.

Use Meta tags accordingly on each and every page of your site so that search engine robots know at first glance what that particular page is about and whether or not to index it. By using Meta tags, you are making the search engine robot's job easier so they will crawl and index your site more frequently.

Stop using wrong HTML tags like <font> to style your page. Use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) instead because they are more effective and efficient. By using CSS, you can eliminate redundant HTML tags and make your pages much lighter and faster to load.
 

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