Top Five SEO Design Mistakes

“Site design often has different functions: branding, direct sales, customer retention, trust, communication, and online visibility. A site must be persuasive enough to sell a product or service. Product photos must communicate the product's look and feel. The site must be trustworthy. By making a site search-friendly early in the design process, everybody wins -- customers, search engines, and site owners.” 27/09/2004 ClickZ.com

Shari Thurow’s article looks at when to engage with SEO, issues involving splash pages, lack of focused content, the balance of html formatted text and graphics and lack of customer focus.

Read the article at
http://www.clickz.com/experts/search/results/article.php/3412591

Koded works with web designers from concept, to ensure sites are built to be visible in the search engines as well as providing pitch and technical support. For more information on partnerships email info@koded.co.uk

30/10/2004

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