3 Things to Avoid When Building an SEO Friendly Website

When building your website it is very important so you avoid making mistakes from the search engine optimization aspects, as you don't want to have situation once your site is indexed that you have to fix so many issues, probably doing everything all over from the scratch is the best option. I always recommend that you take your time before final launch and work on the details. Here's few things you may want to check:

1. Flash Splash Page - generally all splash pages look "cool" but they simply don't work, especially if you have only dynamic graphic content and nothing else. It simply hides your website from search engine spiders (Google) and prevents proper indexing. If you still want to have "intro" page at least add some text based content with internal pages links in the footer
2. Drop Down Menus - very often the only solution to simplify your navigation is to add drop down menus. There's nothing wrong with them as long as they are not based on JavaScript, which simply works on the client side. Work your CSS skills and create great XHTML + CSS drop downs.
3. Excessive graphics - sure pictures and videos are the things that catch people's eyes right away, but unfortunately they are not visible to search engines that's why you have to care for your content - TEXT TEXT TEXT, that's what matters. You can add some pictures and make your content eye, user and search engine friendly

Today's web design tips belong to very common mistakes. The whole thing is about small details, but all these small elements have huge influence on your future ranking that you must care.

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