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Designing Sites With SEO In Mind
When you decide to take your business online, obviously the first and most basic thing to do is to have a website built. However, simply having a website and getting it live on a server is not enough. Once a site is live and active, it is unlikely that it will do any business at all straight away, however do not despair, that is the exact reason that search engine optimization or SEO is a huge part of the online industry today.
There are usually thousands of websites that come into the search engine results page when we type certain keywords in the search tool bar. But the ones that come in the first few ranks of the results page draw the maximum, traffic as nobody has the patience to look through all the websites that have come up in the results pages. The challenge therefore, is to get your site into the top few ranks of the results page.
A big part of SEO is using only the web design techniques that the search engine spiders can index when they crawl into your website. The same applies to using frames in the website designing stage. Ultimate aim should be to use the frames that can be indexed by the various search engines.
The vast majority of Internet users find what they want by typing certain keywords into the search bar of a search engine, and finding out what the most common search terms are for people looking for your service and use them as your page title, META and alt tags and if you can include these search terms in you URL then you will see results much faster.
SEO friendly web design when done properly along with other SEO techniques will get you right up into the good seats on the results pages, however, it is a long process and so can be a daunting task for a web designer to take on, but you should make sure that your chosen designer is going to use all SEO friendly techniques to get traffic to your site as soon as possible.