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List of Things to Avoid When Designing Your
Website
A lot of people spend a lot of time on designing their websites
like adding flash logos, intros, etc. Adding flash to your site
is not a good idea if you're after SEO (Search Engine
Optimization) because search engines can't read flash content
(the only flash content that i know that search engines can read
are flash movies). So you'd better spend you're time on making a
unique and good content than doing those things because people
are after your content and not the design. You can see a lot of
websites that are very famous but design is simple so spend your
time wisely and spend more time on the content than the design
of your website. Just put in mind that you're site should be
user-friendly by avoiding the things below:
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Avoid using Flash content
As much as possible don't use flash because it increases the
loading time of your website and you may lose some visitors
because of that. Some people just don't like to see something
that says "Click here to Proceed" or where they will wait for
20 seconds because of your flash intro. From what I've
observed, most flash sites fail when it comes to SEO.
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Avoid colors that will make your content hard to read This is a very important thing to consider when
designing your site, as what i've said, content is what people
after when visiting your site so you should choose colors that
will make your content readable. This is very basic when it
comes to designing a website but still some people make this
mistake.
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Avoid using a lot of images
Choose what images to put in your website wisely. Only put
image in your site if it can help your visitors otherwise
you're just wasting a precious space in your website.
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Avoid placing navigation in a hard to see place Navigation is very important and should be placed in a
place where it can be easily seen. The best place for the
navigation would be at the top (under your header logo).
People always look for the navigation when they want to get
more information from your website. The basic things that
should be in the navigation are Home, About Us and, Contact
Us.
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Avoid auto-play audio and video
People usually get annoyed when they visit a website where
they hear someone speaking about their company or some
background music. I myself don't like to visit websites that
have auto-play audio and video. People usually close or press
back when they encounter websites with auto-play audio or
video. If ever you want to place a video or audio, don't make
it auto-play so visitors will have their freedom if they want
to hear or view it.
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Avoid making your links hard to see by choosing the wrong
colors
Links are always what the people are looking for when they are
finished reading so you should choose the right color for your
links so people will easily see it. The most common color for
the links is blue (#0000FF). As much as possible and if it
looks good with your design then use blue for your links.
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I am Bryan Joseph King and I'm a programmer and at the same
time doing SEO and I'm here to share some
SEO Tips
on how to optimize your site or blog. Hope these tips of
mine will be a help to you and bring more traffic to your
blog/site.
I'm the owner of
http://yourdailyguide.org/
and Your Daily Guide is a site where you can get news and
information about search engine optimization, improving your
WordPress blog, programming tips, and other things that are
related to the internet.
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