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Tips for Good Website Design

Linking/Files

  • When creating a new design for an old site, it’s essential to keep every file extension the same as before… eg: http://www.domain.com.au/sitemap.html (old) http://www. domain.com.au/sitemap.html (new) alternatively, you can place a 301 redirect on the server.
  • Try not to use dynamic pages (the URL contains a "?" character) as not all search engines will be able to spider your site. Html is still the best format for a website.
  • Do not use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs are these are not indexed by search engines
  • Make sure that every page of your site can be reached from at least one text link within your site. You may wish to add a sitemap for this reason.
  • Do not have more than 100 links on a page

Text

  • Keep text as text. Do not add it as an image
  • Do not make every page a Photo Gallery. Content is King and search engines rely on the text place on a page. Have the information on each page be relevant to that page. An information-rich site that reads easily and is useful to the user is best.
  • Text content should out weight the html content.
  • Each page should contain H tags where appropriate (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5 etc)

Navigation

  • Do not have navigation in flash unless you will add a text navigation to the page also.
  • If a drop down menu is required, use css for your navigation and not JavaScript.

Design

  • Stay away from heavy: flash, java, java script. (Leave flash to a minimal and call all script from the header of your html document if required.)
  • Do not design a site so that every page opens in a new window
  • Design a home page that allows text to be freely added for optimization. This is the most important page of your website
  • Do not use font tags, use a cascading style sheet (css) for all formatting
  • Do NOT use frames
  • Keep all file sizes to a minimum. Speed is the most important thing with a website. If it takes longer than 3-4seconds per page, it’s too heavy. You’ll lose 10% of your audience for every second a page takes to download
  • Keep your pages size under 15k if you can. The smaller the better.

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    Website Design
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    Website Promotion
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  • Off-Page Optimisation
  • PPC (Pay Per Click)
  • Link Building
  • Website Copywriting
  • Article Submission

resource articles

Importance Of New Content And Articles To A Website The Internet is a very dynamic place and it is quite understandable why no one likes things to stagnate here. The search engines definitely do not like this. Websites and blogs that are constantly updated will automatically begin ranking higher on the search results. This is because the search engines themselves use dynamic algorithms. They are designed to continuously keep checking websites, even those that are already ranked, and issue fresh rankings to them.

How To Get To The Top Of Yahoo! The Yahoo! search engine is the number one engine of the world in terms of the number of searches it gets. Of course, Google is more popular, but Yahoo! get more business. For that reason, it would be wisest for you to try and optimize your website for both these search engines. But the problem is, Yahoo! works differently from Google. In this article, let us see how you can use your SEO strategies to make your website rank higher on Yahoo!

How To Make Money From Your Blog When most Internet entrepreneurs build their blogs, their primary concern is to get traffic through it for their business. This they can very well do, because if the blog is search engine optimized, then the people who will be coming on to it will already be interested in the topic and in a way, the blog pre-sells the commodity to them. Most visitors will click on the website link provided below each blog post to get more information.