What’s a good web page design? There will be people like myself arguing that point for years to come, for the sake of argument let’s just say a good web page design is a web page that accomplishes its goal.

So let’s take a look at what makes up a good web page design and what makes up a bad web page.

First the bad:

Our web page tells everyone how great our company is but forgets to mentions the problems our product or services fixes. Our web page is sloppy and unprofessional where’s the credibility in that? Our page is so cluttered that nobody can find what they are looking for, especially the customer. A simple mistake that turns a good web page design into a bad one, the title says something like “new document” instead of the company or product name. We have to much/little white space, site uses pop-up windows, doesn’t fit the screen, or your content is “borrowed” from another site.

Those are just a few of the problems I have seen on web pages. I’m sure if you think about it you can list quite a few things that will turn a good web page design into a horrible one.

If you’re looking for a good web page design then these are some of the rules you should follow: A good web page design consist of a well laid out web page that makes it easy for our visitors to find what we want them to find. (ie what we are selling) Ensuring that each web page in our site looks the same is the sign of a good web page design. Before we put any web page up on the internet we need to proofread spelling, grammar, capitalization and content. Make sure none of our content is offensive, this includes our graphics as well…a poor attempt at humor can run visitors of your site in a hurry. Another trait of a good web page design is content that is well organized and designed to meet our visitors needs. When we have an important point that needs to be made we will use red text to signify that this is important.

Again there a much more in a good web page design than what I’ve listed but this article, this is just a brief summary. When you start to design your web page use a little common sense, it will go a long ways. Think about the “Big Picture”, what is it we are trying to accomplish, what is it, that our customers want and what do I need to put on the web page to bring those two goals together.

If we think about those areas when we design our web page we are certain to have good web page design.

By: V Hargis

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Search engine optimization(SEO) is a method by which the traffic and number of hits on a particular website is increased. Most experts say that it is important not only to get a quantitative increase in the traffic to the website, but a qualitative increase as well.

There are many ways to do this and various SEO companies and software that will guarantee that their method is the most effective. But basically the end goal of SEO is to ensure that a particular website appears high on a list of search engine results. So how does one guarantee SEO?

When SEO companies speak of natural or organic SEO, this basically means that the company does not use marketing techniques involving payment with a particular search engine to guarantee a high placement. They use various techniques such as keyword optimization, tagging, fixing your website’s description, and the like. They focus on improving the content of your website so that when a search is performed, your website will come out on the list of search results.

Other companies engage in paid SEO by paying the search engine companies so that the website will come out high on the list of search engine results. You can spot paid placements when they appear under the sponsored results. This method of SEO however is not as effective as the organic or unpaid method, because people will pay more attention to the organic search results.

But it is not enough that the SEO is organic. Attention also has to be paid various aspects of search results. For one, many internet users will narrow down their searches to image results in the same way that they will also look for video results, or will make their searches based on their geographic locations, and the like. If you are able to optimize your website according to these specifications, you are guaranteed to come out on top of the list of any search engine result list for your given target market.

It is also important to note that your website not only achieves visibility in search results lists, but that it must have a ranking of one to ten on that list. Otherwise, your website will just disappear into the hundreds of other names that may appear on the succeeding pages of the search results list. This means that the internet user will not notice your website, and may never even know it exists. The websites that come out on the top ten of these lists are the ones making money because they are highly visible and have the perception of being the most credible and relevant to their search.

In order to have guaranteed SEO, you have to make sure that the company that you hire to optimize your site will continually engage in keyword research, so that you will know what the trends are now with regards to keywords that are being typed into search engine query boxes. Also, the trends in terms of keywords may change from day to day, so if your search engine optimizers are not alert to these changes, you may already be losing customers to your competition.

Another way to guarantee SEO is to make sure that the HTML codes as well as other codes for your website are optimized with the right words and codes. Not only that, the design and lay out of your website should also be “search engine friendly”.

Other SEO companies also offer services that are called “black hat search engine optimization”. The methods that fall under this category may include spamming, keyword stuffing and article spinning. These methods are not advisable and do not guarantee search engine optimization. More often than not, the search engines will detect these methods and disable the links to your site and will even remove them from the search results lists.

By: Chris M Toal

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