hi mates, Following tips will help a web designer to build a web site search engine friendly, rest of the web promotion part will be taken cared by an seo experts (1)Optimize images to increase loading speed. (2)Design a content based layout. (3)Create static navigation links both header and footer. (4)Add content to web pages inside p tag avoid br tag. More you can find out on: http://promotingseo.blogspot.com/2007/11/best-seo-tips-for-web-designers.html Mike
1 and 2 have nothing to do with SEO; while the first will improve page loading times, the second can actualy make the site harder to access and use for certain groups of people (such as mobile users). The third is semi-useful, but since the links would be repeated in the footer, this can confuse people which will make the site harder to use (if you haven't done so already, read "Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition" by Steve Krug). The fourth has more to do with HTML semantics than SEO. In fact, the fourth one has NOTHING to do with SEO whatsoever.
Question about the static navigation links...why is this so important as Google or even a visitor hit the page the code loads showing a href tag with a url making no difference. Now if you mean because as Google hits your site each time it notices different links it might penalize, but if the links are the same each time (although dynamically created) it shouldnt matter. Let me give an example. I have a lefthad menu on many of my sites that "dynamically" create the list based on the filenames within the main directory. That way all I have to do is upload files and they get linked in the menu automagically. Helps with maintanence. Do you think this is hurting my SEO?? Thanks
why? is it really better to use div than table? which page loads fast page with table or page with div? and why?
I wonder why the designer should care about (4)? I think the designer should just try to use as few graphics as possible, or use them in certain places. That's all.
I wouldn't. A search engine spider will crawl through a table-based layout just as well as a semantic one. However, the spider will suck up more bandwidth in the process with a table-based layout; besides, the real benefit of semantic layouts is best realized by users, not search engine spiders (with one exception that I note at the end of this post). Because search engines will know that the links exist and will be able to crawl them. You're right, it won't matter (menus are menus, and they are smart enough to recognize this). Doesn't hurt it a bit. Pages with the proper use of minimalistic semantic markup will load faster than those with nested table-based layouts, are more accessible to non-browser devices (screen readers, mobile users, and so forth), and also have a better code to content ratio (less code, more content) making it easier for a spider to get to the content.
The best tip I would give is to create relevant content on your website that people will want to read and link to. It helps you gain traffic while building strong natural links.
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