Breaking web marketing tip just in! Website speed affects ranking – it’s official. The good folks at Google have stated that website speed is one of many methods they use to judge the quality of a website. Oh, and get this: website speed also affects your Google page rank – well I never! Read More
If you are searching around for web design coding techniques or want to find a blog on a certain topic Google sometimes seems to miss your search terms completely. Using special characters you can target your terms to return more relevant search results.
I boast some decent results for some keywords in Google and I owe this mainly to hyperlinks. A simple SEO technique that keeps my web design blog near the top of Google, it’s not a breakthrough technique but do I get more visitors directly from Google then ever before.
From a usability perspective, designing a website to be read by a search engine will inevitably lead to poor readability and usability. SEO seems like a way of hacking away at the structure of your website and implementing keyword schemes and accepting reciprocal links from companies and individuals that you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot barge pole in real life. Sounds kind of sleazy to me.