Monday, June 11, 2007

Search Engine Friendly Design

Design of the web site is also vital factor in ranking of a web site. Having a search engine friendly design helps web site to be easily crawled, indexed by search engines and there by gives an edge in over all ranking of web site and target more audience.

Search Engine Friendly Design Tips :

  • Navigation : All the pages of the site should be inter-linked and should have link to index page.

  • Text Readability: Avoid using annoying and eye irksome background colors to make the text of web site content readable and use standard font size (12) and standard font color (black).

  • Images and Flash: Images and Flash may certainly give professional look and feel, but excessive images and flash may not have good impact on users and Search engines.

  • Content: Users and Search engines prefer sites which are more content rich, rather than image rich web sites.

  • Dynamic Sites: Search engine spiders like static web sites and static urls in comparison to dynamic web sites and urls.

  • Java Script : Using more java script code with in page, may hinder the crawling of important content of page, as search spider crawls only 10k code of your page.

  • CSS : Using CSS (Cascaded Style Sheets) for defining styles for various sections of pages is , mandatory part of search engine friendly design.

Search Engine Friendly Design Web Site is most preferred choice of both users and search engines.

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