{"id":1618,"date":"2011-03-16T09:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2022-09-16T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:18:49","slug":"10-seo-tips-for-website-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/10-seo-tips-for-website-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"10 SEO tips for Website Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Website designs play a major role in the SEO of a site. A big part of search engine optimization responsibility lies with the website designer. Unfortunately, an alarming number of website designers are not fully aware of how a good SEO site should be built. Instead, most designers concentrate on color schemes and images they think will make the site more attractive to users.
\nA good website design is a lot about creative, innovative ideas. More importantly, it\u2019s about user appeal. A web page is only attractive so far as users find it attractive. Honestly, it doesn\u2019t matter if you, as a designer, think its ugly. If it works for the user, it\u2019s a good design.
\nLet\u2019s take a look at the fundamentals of creating an effective SEO website design:<\/p>\n

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  1. Pretty Codes <\/strong>\u2013 Always use a semantic code. Search engines find it easier to read descriptive tags and understand content thereof. Besides, your site\u2019s styling is much cleaner using semantic code.<\/li>\n
  2. Stop the Abuse <\/strong>\u2013 Keywords must be used to describe your content, and make sense when they do. Use keywords in the main body of content only where required. Avoid keyword stuffing \u2013 using keywords as many times as possible without sentences making much sense. Additionally, limit keyword usage to url, title tag, and heading tags.<\/li>\n
  3. Simplify Navigation<\/strong> \u2013 Do not use Flash no matter how stylish the drop down effects are. Search engines don\u2019t read Flash, which means your links will not be followed.<\/li>\n
  4. Make them Unique<\/strong> \u2013 Each page should have a different page title. Using the same page title across all pages will mean you are duplicating content, which search engines disfavor.<\/li>\n
  5. Image Description<\/strong> \u2013 Search engines don\u2019t read images. They read text. Use the alt attribute to describe an image to make sure search engines list you in image searches.<\/li>\n
  6. Don\u2019t Generalize<\/strong> \u2013 Link to relevant content but don\u2019t forget to use a keyword in the link to describe the content you are linking to. Links with \u2018learn more about puppies\u2019 is better than a generic link that say \u2018learn more\u2019.<\/li>\n
  7. AJAX Use<\/strong> \u2013 enhances user experience but try to use it sparingly. AJAX content cannot be linked to. So, if you have an individual AJAX generated page, avoid using it.<\/li>\n
  8. Quick Indexing <\/strong>\u2013 Submitting your site to Google works but usually takes a number of days to be indexed. For timely indexing by search engines, a better idea is to get your site linked with another popular site in a relevant niche.<\/li>\n
  9. Allow Incoming Links<\/strong> \u2013 Quality incoming links will improve your site\u2019s search engine placement. If your site has quality content that is informative and useful to users, let other, good relevant sites link to you.<\/li>\n
  10. URL Consistency<\/strong> \u2013 Use or drop the \u2018www\u2019 and stick to it. www.abc and abc.com will be taken as two sites with similar content by search engines, and this doesn\u2019t scale to well with them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Website designs play a major role in the SEO of a site. A big part of search engine optimization responsibility lies with the website designer. Unfortunately, an alarming number of website designers are not fully aware of how a good SEO site should be built. Instead, most designers concentrate on color schemes and images they… Continue reading 10 SEO tips for Website Designers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2747,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webguru-india.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}