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06.29.09 Developing A Search Engine Friendly Site Design  By Justin Briggs SEO: time-intensive, ever changing, and highly misunderstood. Creating a website design that is appealing, while also search engine friendly, is one of the hardest parts about SEO web design. If you're a designer, are your designs really search friendly? A lot of misconceptions about SEO still exist in the web design community and many designers, who have at least some knowledge, are often acting with outdated information. Once a designer understands the value of SEO, there is still the concern of how to keep a design attractive, while also being search friendly. Designers love beautiful websites and SEOs love optimized content and code, but neither should fool themselves, because these days, both matter. In that spirit, I've put together a list of 9 SEO tips that help keep your stunning website optimized for search engines. Instead of focusing on SEO design basics, I'll be covering some design-focused SEO tips, to show how SEO and beautiful design elements can co-exist. 
1. It's not the same old SEO SEO can be hard to keep up with, because it is always changing. Today, SEO doesn't mean a site has to be ugly.  First, forget everything you've learned about keyword meta tags and keyword stuffing, because those days are over. This is a great thing for designers, because search engines are looking for great content, written in natural language. Metrics, like keyword density, which make sites look hideous, are a thing of the past. If you've been a designer for several years, start fresh and learn search engine optimization from a source that keeps up with all things SEO. Don't let out-of-date SEO practices make you think pages have to be riddled with repetitive keywords. 2. Links talk Links tell search engines what pages are about. This holds true on-site as well as off-site. The words you use in your designs to link to other pages do matter. The web has matured and no longer needs to be told "click here". Continue reading this article. About the Author: Justin Briggs is a guest writer for Marketing Pilgrim |
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