Comments on: SMX Boot Camp: SEO Friendly Web Design (#smx #14A)

By: Chelsea Adams

Chelsea Adams — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:28:23 +0000

In reply to Carol. Good additions, Carol! Sometimes optimizers will specifically use frames if there is a portion of a website they don't want/need crawled. but I agree -- in general they should probably be avoided.

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:10:33 +0000

Good tips on SEO friendly web design. I have to add some points that are important to take care in designing seo friendly website – Try to avoid using flash and frames on the page and always use eye soothing colors for background and text.

By: Menulis ArtikelSeo

Menulis ArtikelSeo — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 17:23:04 +0000

The most important part of SEO is perhaps having content relevant to your main page or site topic. The readable text on the page needs to be relevant to the targeted keywords and information in the meta tags and alt tags.The content needs to read well, in addition to being keyword dense, in order to be useful to a reader. Good read. Thanks

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:04:32 +0000

We’re designing a new website. Some of the points you’ve put in were great to learn! Any critiques guy’s? http://bit.ly/GzR1Qi

By: Chelsea Adams

Chelsea Adams — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:25:33 +0000

In reply to Xanthi Syrakou.

Good supplemental JS advice/clarification, Xanthi! Love your troubleshooting advice.

One example of navigation that Shari gave that was user-friendly but needed an SEO text supplement was an interactive map of the United States; user’s loved to choose their state by clicking the colored map but (obviously) the design is bad-news-bears for SEO, so she recommended also including text links that name all the states below.

(by the way, Shari — the presenter of this session — is really awesome when it comes to web design/UX/optimization. Make sure to connect with her on Twitter @sharithurow)

By: Xanthi Syrakou

Xanthi Syrakou — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:28:27 +0000

Excellent points. I hope many could follow this advice.

However, regarding the “Expanding and collapsing navigations” I guess you are referring to Javascript menus and Javascript is not so SE friendly, agreed. Unless you are referring to something completely different.

However, most of the modern techniques do use text links, so it should be ok. Best way to test it is to disable JS on the browser and see if the menu links appear. Or if it’s a website already indexed by Google, take a look at the cache version and check the “text only version”.

That way we can check whether our menu shows (SEO friendly) or not (definitely not SEO friendly).

Besides that, loved the advice.

By: Copywriting Services

Copywriting Services — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:57:59 +0000

Chelsea, would be interesting to get your view on the hummingbird and how it will change content marketing.