Below is a list of 10 SEO-friendly web site design tips, if the web designers should pay attention to during the early stage of their web design.

1. Avoid the creation of the left-hand side of a website. If unavoidable, an alternative way is to set some of the text with rich keywords to the top or above the left so that the text is the first asia can be read about in search engines.

2. Headlines are rated more important than the rest of the web page of search engines. If you’d like to take advantage of this, you should have keywords in the page’s title. Since the header tag (H1) is rather high, you should format it to make it smaller.

3. Each page must be “headline” and “a description of” codes, with good keywords to describe this content. This amount is saying that the title should not exceed 9, and that the description should not exceed 20 words, so that the limits of most search engines.

4. Try not to use flash when possible. Flash can not be read that the search engines to the date and cause slow page-loading time and to get people to run away. If you really must use it to flash, I will try to make it less (for example, flash-title), and leave the other area of Web keyword-rich content.

5. Think twice on how to use graphics. Make them, which are relevant to the content of oman and use the alt tag with the relevant keywords for search engines to read, because they can not read graphics and also to visitors so that they may be something to read, when to expect the images to load.

6. Do not just use the photos link. You should always use text links to link out the importance of the content of the web site. Spider can follow image links, but, as the text links to more though.

7. Do not use frames. Some search engines can not spider web pages with frames at all. In order for other search engines that may be, they can have problems spidering it, and sometimes they too can be the index the web page.

8. Do not use too complex tables, when laying out your page, but they are regarded as being easy robots. There are a number of engines, which are difficult to navigate through to the other pages on your website if the navigation is too complicated.

9. Use an external Cascading Style Sheets and Java Script files to reduce the size of the page, and make time to download much more quickly. It will allow the spider to crawl the web page faster and can help the ranking.

10. Use the standard HTML. Software such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver, or WYSIWYG Editor often add unnecessary scripting codes, which make a page higher than is necessary and makes it harder to crawl. It will sometimes add codes, which can not be read search engines, which resulted in spider does not crawl the page, or even the whole of the site. If used, you should use them in Web Page Creator software wisely, with a good understanding of html, so that you can avoid manually, or even to remove them unnecessary scripting codes.

That’s all my 10 tips for the design of SEO-friendly websites. Enjoy the Web Design: viewed, as well as human visitors and search engines!

More and more flash sites offers navigation using webcam. It must be right to say that it does not work very well for practical reasons, and you will feel quite dumb – waving your head right to left… But one thing is sure, we are going to see more and more none-mouse navigation in future, and there are several studies beleieving we are going to a mouse-free world…. And of course – it is quite cool!
This is a nice example of webcam navigation: Publicis & Hal Riney (also FWA awarded)

There is also a lot of campaign sites using the webcam to interact with the user, either taking photos to implement in the campaign or using the webcam in a more interactive way. Using the same principles as for navigation there has been made several cool sites. This is quite simple, but is one of my favourites (bases on a TV ad):  Solo Super

The banner page should clearly indicate what the site. Enter a navigation system on the first page and stick to it throughout the site. Your logo should be significantly above the fold of the page and the page should clearly explain to your EXACTLY what the visitors to your site is all about. If you do not lose your visitors faster than anything else. Your Banner side should be informative, and should your visitors to take action. The banner is the place where the visitor decides whether it is worthwhile to stay, they will either click on some of your connections, or the website. If you have a discount, or if you offer a free service in an attempt to make contact with your potential customers care about the link to this service on your page banner. If you decide to launch a kind of pleasure on your first page, be careful, offer the possibility for the user to skip the introduction. The link should skip introduction separately from any flash on the side, because they are forcing the visitors to wait until the whole thing has to be fetched. Nothing irritates the visitors more quickly and makes them leave than confused or kept waiting.

Navigation structure of a commercial site is not the place to experiment with navigation. We expect to see navigation on the left and top of the page, because we read from left to right and from top to bottom. Placing navigation on the right side of the page can be a fundamental, but fatal error. Users are increasingly used to target ads to the right side of a page, and this can be a strange sort of menu blindness. Remember the cardinal rule, if they are confused or kept waiting. Make it as a matter of course as you can, when it comes to navigation, not be tempted to experiment in the interest of being different.
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