Three Common Mistakes To Avoid When Designing SEO Standards-Compliant Websites
Search engine users commonly check out only the top result list (the first page) because searching the entire list for a particular keyword would mean a waste of time. If ranking high on search engines result list is such fundamental for the exposure to a site, how can online entrepreneurs ensure that their website is findable?
Compliance to web standards is one of the proven SEO Internet marketing strategies. This means avoiding the common mistakes that web developers commit when designing websites, be it for themselves or their clients.
Here are the top the three most common mistakes that online entrepreneurs should get rid of in order to accomplish their Internet marketing plans are the following:
Cut Down On Graphics
Don’t select a graphic-driven website over a text-driven website. Search engine spiders are blind; they treat graphics as either unreadable or jumbled codes. Graphic-driven websites do improve the appearance of the website. But if it is the reason for losing the chance to be indexed by spiders, it would be a lot better to settle with a clean and simple text-driven website.
Check For Broken Links
Don’t let broken links weaken your online marketing and search engine optimization campaigns. Always check if the navigation links as well as outbound and side wide links are working properly because they have great impact on the ranking of your website.
Cut Out Those Flamboyant Flash Craps On Your Home Page
A website with a Flash home page does not comply with SEO web standards. Spiders cannot read graphics. So don’t fool yourself that it can understand interactive graphic designs like Flash.
The web standards for SEO serve as the guidelines in checking the usefulness of the websites submitted to search engines. It is therefore quite logical for standards-compliant websites to gain the favor of spiders when indexing online pages.
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Good article – SEO has to be woven into the fabric of a website from conception to completion, and many forget this. WordPress does it well, but if you’re going to build from the ground up, you need to have a solid SEO plan to ensure it’s right!
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Many people wasting their time trying to design the perfect page by focusing only on the image of it, without thinking about the functionality or even the speed that it loads (which another important aspect of a website) and this is the reason why so many good looking sites rank so low at search engines.
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Amazing tips! It’s just now that I have known about the 7 seconds stay of a person in browsing the net.
Content is indeed the best way for the your side to crawled upon. 
Amazing Tips… will help Everyone.
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There’s always an exception to a rule. I notice that a lot of the sites for the major car manufacturers – e.g., Volvo, Ford, Chevrolet – seem to have nothing but Adobe Flash, images, and text links on their front pages (and throughout their sites, for that matter), yet the sites rank very well in SERPs for keywords using their respective brand names (“volvo”, “ford cars”, “chevy”, etc.).
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June 7th, 2011 at 12:22 am
Sure Sonny, I agree. Brands like Volvo and Ford can of course rank well in the search engines even without much content on their site because they tend not to have active competitors for their brand names. As a matter of fact most other sites only endorse this official brands websites rather than compete with them. This may not be the case for keywords actively targeted by other websites as well.
Excellent tips. Very helpful for all designers and they must take care of these points
Content is indeed the best way for the your side to crawled upon but if you’re going to build from the ground up, you need to have a solid SEO plan to ensure it’s right
To follow web standards are important. I am also a web developer but sometime I don’t hear others while designing a webpage and choosing keywords. It is a not good habit. Your provided tips are reealy awesome and I like them and will try to follow them.
Excellent read. SEO is now a days a building block of online business. Without SEO internet businesses cannot succeed. No doubt that these are three most basic common mistakes that people usually commit. thanks for sharing this informative post.
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Those mistake can cause your traffic bounce away .
You can use free iwebtool to check your website broken links and website loading speed.
No people will stay at a page which load more than 3 seconds are page not found 404.
So that you able to track your current website or blog performance and solve it.
Great Article with a lot of useful tips. I think particular is the fact that search engine spiders do not see all those pretty graphics that you may have on a site. I myself made the mistake of adding too many graphics to a site and removed some of the text. The site look good but it absolutely killed my traffic and at the time I couldn’t figure out what happened. Some other things to avoid would be using the same titles, descriptions throughout your website or using the tiny or invisible text.
Fully agree with your above mentioned information.If you want good result in SERP then you have to create website SEO accordingly.Lots of things should be consider like heavy graphics “flash”,niche content,interlinking,sitemap etc etc.If you bale to do yourself then fine otherwise can get the help of experts.Implementation of every single thing give you awesome ROI in return..
A large majority of the Web designers, including corporate ones, never heard of the W3Consortium. They will generally write web pages that will work with their own browser, which, more often than not, is very forgiving when it comes to unorthodox HTML.
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Excellent article. I’ve seen a lot of sites that literally shock you when they open. Too much flash. I used to use the different color fonts, bold type etc… No more. Now it’s information, information, information.
Thanks
Completely true, I Google for almost every information and most of the time its from the first page that I get all the answers I’m searching for so I don’t feel the need to go to the next pages but I also do not feel surprised anymore if I get the best answer from the third or fourth page. Also, it is important to work with graphics keeping the spider in mind. Spiders can be prove very tricky for you.
nice information.i read this completely this information.it is really fantastic.so thanks….
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I have cut down on the use of graphics ever since Google started talking about speed load times, and their affect it has in their search results. It was really surprising to me just how much I was able to save and improve upon the load time once I started looking around for ways to improve on speed. As far as checking for broken links, I really recommend Xenu’s Link Sleuth, it crawls the website just like a bot would and you can even tell it how deep to follow a link inside your own website.
Till then,
Jean
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July 22nd, 2011 at 10:09 am
Thanks Jean for that great comment and for recommending Link Sleuth. It is sure a great tool.
I think if your name is very well branded then the annoying flashy crap on the home page is acceptable – to a small degree. Otherwise, I completely agree on omitting it. Who has time to sit through that ? You want a site that loads fast and is well put together.
Yes, it’s completely true. When I first created a website with a lot of images, it had a bouncing rate of 80% and I thought it was normal.But after a few months I created another website in the same niche (without much images) and it had around 50% bounce rate. So it’s always a good idea to reduce the time required to load a page.
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i am totally a green hand of SEO, thank you for sharing. Really thank you so much… Very informative post..!!
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Definitely ditch Flash, certainly sites that are wholly built in Flash. Graphics are fine though – you have to design pages for humans too. Just make sure the “alt” tag is completed for each graphic and includes some of your keywords. This can actually help with SEO.
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In my experience, i think web developers should also consider the loading time of the page. Personally, i close the website if it’s loading time is too long. I think their images should have a small size in order to avoid this.
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The designing of websites are according to the standard define by W3C..The webpages designed by them should be accessible by all type of browsers.
“Cut Out Those Flamboyant Flash Craps On Your Home Page”
Agreed. You see too many which pages which are entirely flash and have basically zero SEO potential.