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Designing your Web Site for ALL Browsers
Let's face it. Building a web site that browses consistently on multiple platforms and multiple browsers is not always as easy as we would like. It is safe to say that most designers spend most of their time building their sites on a given...
Do This One Thing to Quadruple Web Sales in Just One Month
Spend time planning your Web site. Before you design a page or write a word, get a visual, and mental picture of your preferred audience. Your visitors will spend up to 8 seconds on your home page, so plan accordingly. Draw your specific audience's...
Use Server Side Includes To Ease Your Workload
I’m all for making things as easy as possible. The whole idea in business, and life, is to work smarter not harder. When designing websites, I not only want to create them with as little effort as possible, but I also want to make maintaining them...
Website Redesign- Planning as easy as 123!
In the past, businesses and other entities are busy mounting
their own website but now, the hype is all about redesigning
them. This change has shifted the interface of web design
services to a different level and the focus is now on...
Why does anyone need a professional Web Designer?
Why does anyone need a professional Web Designer?
With a plethora of website design and website building tools
available today why does anyone need a web designer? In fact,
if you shop around, you can build a well presented web...
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Simple steps to increase traffic to your website
Every website owner wants their website to be popular; some just might not admit to it! To increase traffic to your website, I suggest the following to start with:
Unique content
Visitors and Search engines love unique content - nobody likes to read the same paragraphs over and over. Your visitors will return to your website and search engines will rank your site high for being unique.
Get linked
Getting linked is very important, the majority of your visitors will find your website through links, whether they be on Google or a directory website. Our advice is to submit your website in appropriate places - directories that are suited to your website. Search engines will find your website automatically, so don't waste your time submitting to them!
Keyword rich text
Most websites are set up to achieve a goal - whether it be to sell a product or service or to promote something or someone. CJ Website Hosting recommends you think of a dozen keywords that you would like people to search for (in search engines) to get to your website. Once you have the list, try to put them within your website content - but keep the sentances making sense - search engines
will spot keyword spammers!
Link to relevant websites
Linking to websites can be as powerful as being linked. If you link to websites that are relevant to your websites content - you will receive brownie points for doing so. Search engines categorise your website depending on what you link to, for example, if you linked to several "home made recipe" websites, search engines will guess that your website has something to do with home made recipes.
Use heading tags and appropriate titles
Heading tags such as <h1>, <h2> etc.. are known to be vital HTML tags. Not only do they tell visitors what your page is about, they also help search engines to categorise your site. Same goes for the <title> tag. Make sure your title tag is short and to the point - including a URL in your tag is a big no no.
Other tips include; making your website standards compliant, minimilising the amount of HTML code on your pages (by using div based layouts), utilising the alt and title attribute and using URL rewriting techniques.
About the Author
Sara Tompson is a support engineer at CJ Website Hosting. Research interests include SEO and Accessibility in web design.
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