Web Design SEO Tips - Build a Search Engine Ranking You Can Be Proud Of

By John Somerton • August 8th, 2008

Planning to launch a website? Have you (or your web designer) given any thought to how your design might affect your search engine rankings?

Going through the grueling task of designing and building a website can be a stressful enough experience. By the time you’ve gone through strategy planning meetings, hours of design comp reviews, website programming and development (and debugging), and finally get to the point where you’re ready to launch (or re-launch) - let’s just say it can be a monumental task.

But imagine going through all that tiresome work and expense only to realize that your site has not the ghost of a chance of getting a high search engine ranking - well, that would be just downright deflating! Search engine rankings may have been the furthest thing from your mind during the design process but rest assured it will rear it’s head at some point, and it’s better to know how to address it sooner rather than later.

Don’t be blindsided by the often overlooked but absolutely essential aspect of quality website design - search engine optimization. Good search engine optimization can be the deciding factor between free, high quality, targeted traffic landing on your site instead of your competitor’s.

Before you start your website or hire a web designer, get the skinny on web design for SEO with these tips specifically aimed to address the most common search engine problems that can trip you up along the way to getting your new website online. Even if you’re part way through or almost complete, these free web design SEO tips will save you time, money, and grief in the end.

You can sign up for this FREE 7-part web design SEO course via email - it’s called “7 Common Web Design Mistakes That Destroy Your Search Engine Traffic”

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