How To Tell If Website Is Search Engine Friendly?
I am thinking about starting a web business, and I have spoken to a few designers and coders. How would you know if someone has a site that is search engine friendly. I am taking bids on a site desogn that is sort of a copy of features of another site. I spoke to one of the designers and he told me he looked at the other designers site and said that his site was search engine friendly, that he had a url friendly. and the others wasnt.Keep in mind these are both demo sites. What did he mean about that.?
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Search Engine Friendly means those sites where the keywords have been defined properly. A seo friendly site have well defined meta tags, site map and robot.txt. while site maps aren’t always feasible..
a search engine friendly url cud be a short easy to remember url.. some people like to use keywords for it.. while others don’t. It is hard to determine a site’s friendliness by the design. but i’d say the ones that use too many graphics and animation are not liked by SEs. The sites that are frequently updated with relevant content and good site structure always does well in SERPs. read some blogs on articles about what SEO is really about.. jsut the basic knowledge then you can determine all about it. but even if ur site is already designed .. it is still not late to optimize it.
To me the most important thing is content. The content has to match the keywords you are trying to target. There is also meta tags for description and keywords which is something you don’t see unless you view the source. Go to http://www,greatbuys.net for more info.
The site is free.
Hope it helps,
Gary
The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, “Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?” And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the “Title” metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The “Title” should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the “Title” is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the “Description” which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.
And the very last category – “Keywords” are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as “spamdexed entries” which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
“Spamdexing” when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.