How to Make Sure Your Website is Designed for SEO

Sat, Apr 12, 2008, by Francesc

Search Engines

You have to make sure that your website is in tip-top shape to get top search engine rankings. You will rarely see a poorly constructed website at the top of Google’s rankings.

There are a few things that your website should contain to make it

attractive to search engines.

First, your website should have a site map. There should be a small link

to this site map on every page on your website. That way, it is easy for

your whole website to get indexed by search engine spiders.

Second, your website should have clear links to all related pages on

each page. This will not only help search engines, but it will also help

your visitors navigate your website. When your visitors get to your

website, you want them to visit the most pages possible, and this really

helps that.

Next, you can make sure you are always adding fresh content to your

website. Once again, this really pleases the search engine spiders as

well as your visitors. Your visitors will come back to your website,

looking for new content. This is what you want.

Here are some things that you should not put on your website.

First, flash applets, Search engine spiders cannot read flash files or

the text that is included in them. Not only does flash cause problems

for search engine spiders, they can also cause problems for your website

visitors. Some computers can’t read the flash and sometimes the flash

applets cause your visitors to run really slow. You don’t want this

because your visitors will not come back.

Second, using lots of images to display text. This is a problem because

search engine spiders cannot read text that is in image form. Using a

lot of images might also cause visitors computers to run slow and maybe

even freeze. This is not what you want.

Lastly, you should not put a lot of external links on your website. If

you put too many links on your website, search engines might start

classifying you as a link farm, and you really don’t want this. This

will really drop your search engine rankings and cause you many

problems. If you have a really excessive amount of links, your website

might actually get blacklisted.

When you begin your search engine promotion, you want to make sure that

all your on page elements are in tip top shape. You will be wasting your

time if you do a whole lot of work on link building, but your website is

not what search engines are looking for. Make sure your website is in

top shape before you start promotion and you will see much better results.

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