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Important Rules Should Bare In Mind In Web Design

David Shaw — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:01:26 +0000

When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose. Here are seven important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.

1) Do not use splash pages

Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like "welcome" or "click here to enter". In fact, they are just that -- pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the "back" button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.

2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements

Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide more valueable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, and let your visitors feel that they want to buy instead of being pushed to buy.

3) Have a simple and clear navigation

You have to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus. If your visitors don't know how to navigate, they will leave your site.

4) Have a clear indication of where the user is

When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don't confuse your visitors because confusion means "abandon ship"!

5) Avoid using audio on your site

If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they're not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it -- volume or muting controls would work fine.

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Tips and Hints to Help You Optimize Your Site With Keywords

David Shaw — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:28:29 +0000

Online marketers are discovering and adapting new and effective trends of promoting their business on web. However, there is one strategy that is employed by the online marketers. Keywords help the websites to rank well in search engines.

It's those simple but dynamic key words that will get you known to the millions of potential customers that constantly shop on the web. It doesn't matter whether you offer a product or a service, you choice of keywords are critical to your success. These are the primary piece of information that the major search engines use to get you into their massive collection of information. The very same information bank that people tap into when they are looking for what you have to offer.

Your keywords must be relevant, and must serve the purpose of enticing ongoing traffic to your website. This is achieved by moving up in the page ranks of the major search engines. It is imperative that the keywords are utilized in the home page along with the other top level pages. If you don't utilize these keywords effectively, on your website, then they will go unrecognized by the search engine crawlers. Don't allow this to happen as they are your source of getting the information out to all the people that may need what you have to offer.

It's not just a matter of choosing one word to describe your site; it's a matter of picking the right word. You have to think like a visitor. If they were looking for something on your site what is the most likely word they would type into the search engine to find you? Not only must you pick the most common keyword or phrase, you must use it in the proper places on your website as well. It has to be the most noticeable place that the search engine crawlers will find it. Primarily you will want it on your home page and including your other best pages, or most pertinent pages.

The keyword must be easy, common and the most likely word to be used to find your product or service.The proper choice of keywords can mean the difference of a potential buyer finding you or your competitor first.

Google keyword tool is used by the Search Engine Optimizers to research keywords that are most popular as it will yield more traffic to a particular website. It will also give an idea about which variations of a particular keyword are popular.

With this support tools such as Overture and Google Adwords, it really makes finding the right keywords easy. All you have to do is enter the primary key word, and then it will return to you several relevant keyword phrases. Wordtracker is another very valuable tool for this job as well.

To use the Google tool for finding keywords just go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordTool, then click on the radio button for the keyword phrases or the descriptive words. Once it appears enter your keyword separately or in phrases if that is what you want. Enter one per box. Be sure you click on the captcha, and then continue to hit the get keywords idea button. This is an excellent tool for conducting keyword analysis and research. It is one of the most popular tools used by SEO experts.

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Picking the Optimum Key Words For Your Site

David Shaw — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:18:18 +0000

Never put aside the importance of keywords regardless of what other marketing measures you employ. The SEO experts utilize the technology that is found in tools such as Overture Keyword, Google Adword, and Worldtracker for example. There is a fine line between over kill with key words, and not using them enough or effectively. When you are picking your keywords, remember you are looking for words that best describe your site ,with just that one word,or at the very most a short keyword phrase. You need to think how a potential visitor might look for your product or service. What would be the most likely term they would enter? In this case you must think like your visitor would.

The easier you make it for people to find you, then the greater number of people will find you. This is why SEO experts are constantly on the look out for the optimum key words.

The prime concept of selection of keyword is to use paid or free keyword find tool in order to find many people search but less competitive website.

Google keyword tool and Overture are the important free keyword tools. Both Overture and Google keywords suggestion tool is the tool where you can enter the primary keyword, for example "web" and see a number of keyword phrases like "website development", "SEO web design" which were used by the searchers. Wordtracker is the tool by which the best keywords can be searched easily.

For using Google keyword tool visit, https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal click on the "Descriptive words or phrases" radio button and then type in your desired keyword (or) keyword phrases under "Enter one keyword or phrase per line" text box. Enter the captcha code and then click on the "Get keywords idea button". This tool is recommended by most SEO's to carry out keyword research and analysis.

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