Human And Search Engine Friendly Web Design In a Nutshell
Search engines like to index as much website as possible. Unfortunately, many impatient webmasters sway to the dark search engine optimization. This article aims to aid webmasters in creating an original, unique, and user-friendly website. Humans must first like your website. After you satisfy humans, you may tweak the website to meet search engine spiders. A search engine spider is a program that crawls the web to index websites.
Metadata includes the page title, keywords, and description. The page title of metadata tells the main topic, subject, or reason for the website. For example, Affordable Web Hosting Service shows that the hosting plans are easy on the pocket. The visitors can easily tell that the website sells hosting plans and domains. The keywords of metadata are search terms. They are the words or text that a visitor enters into the search engine to find the website. For example, the web hosting design company keyword phrase finds companies who create websites. Lastly, the description of metadata describes what the web page or site does. With the Metadata information, the spiders check the relevance of the copy or content of the website.
A well-formed HTML website keeps the search engine spiders happy. The spiders repay you by indexing your website. Keep your website concise and reasonable in length. Lengthy content bores visitors who come to your website and dilutes the keywords, which tell the importance of your website. With proper keyword count, the website increases in importance. Keep in mind that the content must relate to your keyword.
Content Management Software provides an easy way to build or create a website. And there are many of these kinds of software. There are web-based and window-based. You may have to pay attention to the HTML that Content Management Software develops. If the HTML is well formed, we recommend continuing its use.
The visitor to your website must find what he is looking for in one to three links. So, keep the website as flat as possible. Besides, the search engine spiders stop crawling at certain levels. This is a protection against endless loops. Dynamic websites violate this rule the most, especially dynamic websites with many parameters. However, spiders go through dynamic websites as much as static websites. With many complicated parameters, the spider stops. Then, it looks for another website or page. Also, the keywords on the link lead visitors to the information that they are searching for.
A site map page, which contains the links of the website, gives spiders clues about how to go through the website. Google allows you to submit a site map in xml format, while Yahoo allows you to submit a text file with all the links. Google’s site map is far superior. Webmasters can login to see Google spider statistics. The statistics show top queries, link popularity, error pages, and more. Be sure to include any new page and renamed page in your site map. For any renamed page, you may consider 301 Redirects; 301 Redirects safely directs a visitor from an old page to the new page. Also, 301 Redirects are the only ones spiders accept.
A good-looking website with extensive JavaScript, Cookies, Session id, Frames, DTHML, and Flash gives spiders a hard time. There is hope though. You can work around them. Be aware of the work-around.
Breadcrumbs dramatically add to the usefulness and functionality of the website. Breadcrumbs are a series of links that lead to the current page. The visitor navigates the website with ease, because the visitor can go back and forth with ease.
About The Author
Fei Lim is the manager of Flizard Technologies which provides web hosting services, sells domain names, and designs websites for personal and businesses. Fei Lim has also been a cable network technician for Aerotek Tek Systems as a cable contractor in 1999. Fei Lim has the knowledge in category 5 stp data and voice cables, bix cross connections, fibre optics, cable splicing, as well as computer hardware knowledge. Fei Lim can troubleshoot any computer problems and also network problems. Fei Lim may be contacted at http://www.flizard.com and toll free number 1-888-623-8880.
