How to make website seo friendly?

[jyotitis]

In the present Internet era where billions of website are being surfed every day it is not enough merely to own a website or creating a website with good look but it is very important to make it reachable to the targeted visitors and provide them with all the essential elements to convert them into potential customers.

Like make it simple, avoid javascript and excessive images as google does not read images, avoid use of frames, unnecessary vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling, organize your website, keeping navigation at the left, managing sitemap and so on.

I am looking for more suggestions on how can I make my website more informative and user friendly too. Will the use of blog or forum on my site make any difference?

[Andy]

keeping navigation at the left

- that's bad SEO advice.

Also, don't forget that Google indexes images so they are part of the SEO equation. Haven't you ever done an image search?

Will the use of blog or forum on my site make any difference?

- that question proves that you know nothing about SEO.

Also, posting a link inside your first post on a forum without bothering to create a signature is another mistake.

Please, the last thing the world needs is another SEO specialist trying to make it seem like it's a black art. It's extremely simple to understand and clearly explained in many many places on the web.

[donecweb]

- that's bad SEO advice.

I disagree with you Andy. Keeping navigation to the left is not bad advice as it makes it easy for visitors to follow the navigation. While it doesn't really have much to do with optimization it is good advice for newbies.

- that question proves that you know nothing about SEO.

It is just rude to make such a statement. The post if you read it says "I am looking for more suggestions on how can I make my website more informative and user friendly too. Will the use of blog or forum on my site make any difference?". So the question was "Will the use of blog or forum on my site" make a site more informative and user friendly. Andy I wish you would stop attacting people so much just because you personally disagree with their point of view and when you know nothing about them. You are not the only one that has good ideas, opinions and knowledge.

[Andy]

You are attacking me Donecweb.

Andy I wish you would stop attacting people so much just because you personally disagree with their point of view and when you know nothing about them. You are not the only one that has good ideas, opinions and knowledge.

I welcome good input to this forum, but when people come and post junk, I disagree with what they say. Is that regarded as an attack?

This poster is coming here to advertise a direct link in their post to an article that they wrote about Search Engine Optimization.

It is my duty to protect people that are trying to learn these techniques from being scammed. How many webmasters spend countless hours online wasting their time following bad advice? Opinions are only opinions, like a roll of a dice in the decision making process.

A legitimate new visitor that wants to contribute to the forums will read the rules, post good tips based on their experience and create a forum signature linking to their site as a matter of courtesy.

I am a moderator here for a good reason, in that I can see the purpose of many posts based on years of marketing experience and can warn people about what in my experience is bad advice. Notice that I didn't delete the post. It is still up for discussion.

I guess that if I provoke you about Linux and obsession with operating systems, I should expect retaliation 

clam: now I have to waste time defending my position about nav being on the right. The reason is that the content is more important that the nav links, so put the nav links under your content in the HTML. With CSS you can position content anywhere, but it is difficult for most of us. Millions of Wordpress blogs can't be wrong!

[Queen Bee]

Hi jyotitis, welcome to the forums!

Like make it simple, avoid javascript and excessive images as google does not read images, avoid use of frames, unnecessary vertical scrolling, horizontal scrolling, organize your website, keeping navigation at the left, managing sitemap and so on.

These are very outdated recommendations, most of which have more to do with visual presentation than actual SEO. This seems like a good topic to discuss however, so I'm glad it was brought up.

Also, image searches attract more visitors to my site than textual content. It is an art site, so this is to be expected.

However, "excess" design images can be avoided simply by placing them within cascading styles (I really have to get around to doing this for my own website). Each site should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Are the images important? Do they bring meaning or value to the website? I am not a SEO expert (or even a "novice" for that matter), but I think this is important.

I think perhaps your article should be renamed "11 tips to make your website more user friendly and efficient." I would agree with Don that these are good tips for novice webmasters, but I would hope that users looking to score high traffic rankings would have already taken all of these steps.

[donecweb]

You are attacking me Donecweb.

Sorry you feel I was attacking you Andy. All I was doing was asking you to phrase your responces in a more constructive manner. Example: You as a Moderator could have said something like "jyotitis, placing your navigation to the left of the page has no SEO value and implying that it does is the same as giving bad or incorrect advice." Andy do you see the difference in how a statement like that effects the reader instead of a blunt statement?

I welcome good input to this forum, but when people come and post junk, I disagree with what they say. Is that regarded as an attack?

Disagreeing with a post is not in it's self an attack but doing so with no explaining detail will often be seen as an attack and may cause new members to not want to post as they may be afraid that if they make a mistake then the monitors will jump down their throat without any explanation.

This poster is coming here to advertise a direct link in their post to an article that they wrote about Search Engine Optimization.

You know you may be correct about the only reason that poster posted that post. At this point I don't have enough information to say one way or another. However! I feel that as a long time member of Webmaster Key Forum that you as a moderator should let new members know when they fail to follow the rules in a manner that guides them to correct their posting activity while encouraging them to continue to post.

It is my duty to protect people that are trying to learn these techniques from being scammed. How many webmasters spend countless hours online wasting their time following bad advice? Opinions are only opinions, like a roll of a dice in the decision making process.

Sorry but I don't believe you as a moderator are personally required to protect people from being scammed. Any person reading information on any forum should consider anything found there cautiously until they personally check it out. On the other hand I feel a moderator has a responsibility to help keep the forum from producing information that can have a negative effect on the forum readers. This may include pointing out bad advice but a monitor should do so in a constructive manner.

A legitimate new visitor that wants to contribute to the forums will read the rules, post good tips based on their experience and create a forum signature linking to their site as a matter of courtesy.

In a perfect world you are correct, but we all know this is not a perfect world we live in especially when it comes to the internet. Often people will not have any idea that they can even have a signature or what would be allowed in a signature or if they will be around long enough to bother with a signature until they have posted a few times and see how their post are responded to.

I am a moderator here for a good reason, in that I can see the purpose of many posts based on years of marketing experience and can warn people about what in my experience is bad advice. Notice that I didn't delete the post. It is still up for discussion.

As I see it the reason any person that becomes a moderator because they have agreed to help with the running of the forum. As for your experience giving you the ability to see the purpose of a post from just one or 2 post, well I don't see it. Possibly if you had degrees in sociology then you may be in a position to get a peek at the motivation behind a post or group of post with very little input but often people post and place links legitimately because they don't know what to post and are (like most of us) only focused on thing of their interest.

I guess that if I provoke you about Linux and obsession with operating systems, I should expect retaliation 

Nah Andy I would just consider the source.

clam: now I have to waste time defending my position about nav being on the right.

I see no reason for you wasting your time defending your position as nothing was said to imply navigation had to be on the left only that there was nothing wrong with telling people it is a good idea to place navigation on the left where it is often found. The idea of placing your navigation on the left is given in the perspective of the visual image of the page.

The reason is that the content is more important that the nav links, so put the nav links under your content in the HTML.

It sounds to me that the statement "put the nav links under your content in the HTML" comes from the perspective of coding which considering the perspective of the coded page putting the navigation below the content is good advice as the robots will read the content first and that is desired.

With CSS you can position content anywhere, but it is difficult for most of us.

You are correct that with CSS the position of almost any feature of a web page can be placed practically anywhere on the page, But the placement of the navigation on the page only requires the most simple of CSS.

Millions of Wordpress blogs can't be wrong!

Now Andy really! That kind of reasoning implies that the Nazis or Mafia are/were right since millions of them felt/feel they were right.

I don't do blogs and I have never been able to do anything with Wordpress as it doesn't make sense to me and I suspect that the majority of websites are not created with Wordpress.

Have a good day Andy and you should note that as a moderator your help with the forum is highly appreciated by this long time member.

[stunning boy]

create site on simple html,
don't use java and flash,
make title and tags,
create sitemap xml,

[SRoy]

The most important thing is content, if your site's content is not good, it won't get a good PR by Google. You can use your primary keywords in the content, but adhering to the keyword density is important, otherwise it will be considered spam content.

[hiseredman]

some tips of SEO friendly website:

1. Keywords should be in Titles and Headings.
2. Right use of keywords in Title Tags.
3. Use of keywords in the content of the entire webpage.
4. Use keywords in navigations.
5. Use Site Map and submit it with Google.
6. Protect website from 404 Errors.
7. Easy and keyword rich URL.
8. Comply with W3C Standards.
9. Make website content easily indexed by Spiders.
10. Beware of Google penalizing.

[seoservices654]

I read a good article for this. Here it is:-

Here get some simple steps to make your site a Search Engine Optimization friendly site:

1. Make it Simple

Try to make your site as simple as you can. Make use of white spaces on your site so that it visually also pleases visitors. Use appropriate font color with contrasting backgrounds. Less is more. It will help to make important elements more eye catching.

2. Avoid JavaScript

Try to avoid excessive use of JavaScript or any other scripting language on your web page. Search Engine robots as per their algorithm do not read JavaScript codes and use of these codes increases the load time of websites which annoys the user. As a result of which you may lose your potential customer.

3. Avoid use of Frames and Flash

Try to avoid excessive use of frames and flash as they increase load time of the websites.

4. Organize site

Organize sites in a manner so that every page is easily navigated from all the pages of the site. Navigation to the pages should be simple and clear. The Anchor text should be relevant to the link contained underneath.

5. Avoid Excessive use of Images

Avoid use of unnecessary images on the website as they increase the load time of the website and make the website bulky. Do not overuse graphics on the web page.

6. Minimize Site loading time

Site should be quick to load so that it can easily and quickly reach your potential visitors. Minimize the loading time on your site as much as you can.

7. Check Availability of Server

The web server on which your website is hosted should be 24 X 7 up as search engine robots can visit your website anytime. And unavailability of your site on being visited can lose you your potential visitor and thus you may lose your business.

8. Keep Navigation at the left

Create a Navigation tap and place the navigation links on that section. Keep the navigation links to the vital pages of your website on the left of the web page as search engine robots generally start reading your website from the top left corner of the website and also it is very much convenient for the web users also.

9. Relevant content

Don't forget that visitors are coming to your website to take some information. And for providing the required information to the visitors, search engines crawls your website. The ultimate main purpose is to provide information to the visitors. So keep your website more informative and post content on the website that is relevant to the site.

10. Manage Site map

Manage a site map containing the links of all the pages of the website on a single page so that a visitor can easily get to the page he wants to with the help of site map.

11. Avoid Scrolling

Horizontal Scrolling!!!! Users use to hate horizontal scrolling on a web page. It must go now. Vertical Scrolling is OK if it is very much necessary to keep it. But try to make your content or the information on your web page very concise and snappy. Users should have good feel when they come to your site.