Tips for an SEO-Friendly Website Design
Being at the top of the search engines is a major priority for a business. People are not looking through the yellowpages like they used to! It’s important to create a strong SEO plan for your site. Here are some tips for building an SEO friendly web site. They’re a bit technical, but important for your designer to know.
- Make sure that title elements and ALT attributes are descriptive and accurate.
- Check for broken links and correct HTML.
- Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site.
- Make sure your web server supports the HTTP header.
- Test your site to make sure that it appears correctly in different browsers.
- Avoid using too complex of tables when laying out your page.
- Use external Cascading Style Sheets and Java Script files to reduce page size and make the download time much faster.
- The URL structure http://www.example.com/green-dress.html is much more useful than http://www.example.com/greendress.html. You should use hyphens (-) instead of underscores (_) in your URLs.
