Thread: Tips For Search Engine Friendly Website Design

A search engine friendly website with unique content is an extremely important asset for to have more traffic and success on the internet. Cluttered and unorganized content turns people off. However without traffic, even a well designed site will not produce results for you. As people use search engines to find information, products or services which are very useful for them. So, web site owners who offer these things take necessary steps to ensure that their site gains high ranking for a particular keyword phrase or at least on the first page of results.

The best websites are those that are both attractive and easy to use for an online user. Web site owners should keep in mind that site is for end users, not for search engines and also target the audience with the content they are looking for is convenient for the search engine robots that are trying to find and collect data from your site.

There are few things to look for when designing new sites or optimizing an existing site.

1)Web Content: Web sites should always be designed with your target audience in mind with unique content which should be readable and insert between 200-500 words of rich search engine friendly content on each of your site pages.

2)Site Navigation: Ensure that each and every page of your site has clear navigation. It’s frustrating for users to click on something and encounter the dreaded 404 Error Page Not Found.

3)Title, Meta keyword and Description Tags: The title tag is extremely important to both search engine users and search engine spiders, if it’s not optimized properly, than you’ve lost a vital source for high rankings. The information in Meta keyword and description tags can influence how search engines view your site, and optimally the description that you write will show up in search engine listings, so try keep it clean with useful tags.

4)Search engine spider cannot understand the text written on images. So, try to avoid flash animations, java objects and dynamic contents. Create alternate navigation using anchor text if your website is JS menu drive or contains flash menus.

5)Create sitemap links to important pages as sitemap act as alternate access point to website and dynamic pages should be converted into search engine safe URL’s using various tools.

6)Avoid using frames as search engine spiders have difficulty in index websites using frames and create rich content information rather than doorway pages.

Basics but certainly useful info. Keep up the good work pal.

Web design is also important in marketing your site. The structure of the site as well as the navigation,coding and etc are important things to be consider in optimizing a page.

Those are some really good tips. I really believe that usability play a very good role in website design.

Good point sharing senesh
i also add one more important this
Easy Navigation System like this
• Home
• About
• Services
• Contact
• Help
• Resources
• Sitemap
• portfolio

Possible "Speed Bumps" for SE Crawlers:

• URLs with more than two dynamic parameters
• Pages with over 100 unique links to other pages (crawlers may not follow each of them)
• Pages more than 3 clicks away from the the home page
• Pages using a "Session ID" or Cookie during navigation (spiders may not be able to use these elements)
• Pages with "frames" can hold back the site crawling and confuse spiders about which pages to rank in the results

Possible "Walls" for SE Crawlers:

• Pages requiring a drop down menu (HTML attribute) to access them
• Image map navigation structure
• Flash content and navigation
• Pages accessible only via a select form and submit button
• Documents accessible only via a search box
• Documents blocked purposefully (via a robots meta tag or robots.txt)
• Pages requiring a login
• Pages that re-direct before showing content

source: rankingtoday.com

Make sure you don't use common keywords to have a better chance to get to number one spot on google rank..

Nice and optimized tips for designing a website from the seo point of views and search engine friendly.

i think making a crawler friendly tags and content....the site will be SE friendly

Nice one! Thanks for sharing this informative article with us.

Good tips thanks a lot for the points

Originally Posted by 2fk

Possible "Speed Bumps" for SE Crawlers:

• URLs with more than two dynamic parameters
• Pages with over 100 unique links to other pages (crawlers may not follow each of them)
• Pages more than 3 clicks away from the the home page
• Pages using a "Session ID" or Cookie during navigation (spiders may not be able to use these elements)
• Pages with "frames" can hold back the site crawling and confuse spiders about which pages to rank in the results

Possible "Walls" for SE Crawlers:

• Pages requiring a drop down menu (HTML attribute) to access them
• Image map navigation structure
• Flash content and navigation
• Pages accessible only via a select form and submit button
• Documents accessible only via a search box
• Documents blocked purposefully (via a robots meta tag or robots.txt)
• Pages requiring a login
• Pages that re-direct before showing content

source: rankingtoday.com

thnks for the nice info pal

Aside from the tips mentioned above, it's also important to validate the site's HTML and CSS Code to make it also search-engine friendly

nice..tips...I remember this...mostly...this...tips..

"Title, Meta keyword and Description Tags: The title tag is extremely important to both search engine users and search engine spiders, if it’s not optimized properly, than you’ve lost a vital source for high rankings. The information in Meta keyword and description tags can influence how search engines view your site, and optimally the description that you write will show up in search engine listings, so try keep it clean with useful tags."

You can increase your web site traffic significantly with the use of good site design, clear navigation makes it easy for visitors to find what they are looking for on your site.