Web design and SEO don’t normally go hand in hand and yet they should! If you are about to have your web site designed then you should have an SEO expert on hand to ensure that the basic requirements for search placements are included in the design.

These requirements include:

• Ensuring that the finished design is W3C compliant.

• Keeping flash and other non-SEO effective effects to a minimum.

• Making page titles and URL’s SEO friendly

• Creating individual META Tags for each page

• Having user friendly navigation areas that can be read and followed by spiders

Good web design ensure that visitors to your site can easily find what they are looking for. Search engine spiders can easily crawl your content and follow your links. Finally, with a well designed web site that is popular with visitors and contains good content you will attract inbound links.

These all go together to help gain a good rank in the search results. This helps to increase your traffic. A win win situation for you as a website owner.

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