One of the biggest design obstacles to make your site search engine friendly are graphics. Everybody likes the graphics on websites and it is nice to see a original designed website. You often hear the sentence: “One picture is worth a thousand words”. This is difinitely true, but not for search engines. For search engines we can say: “One keyword is worth at least a thousand pictures”.
Web crawlers cannot read images on websites that don’t have the “ALT” tag. Some search engines cannot even read images with the “ALT” tag. Images should always be next to your content (if possible). If you place your images in front of your content, it will take up valuable text space in the first paragraph. Search engine crawlers are reading your site from the left (top) to the right (bottom).
You should remember this rule and take it with you when you are designing a website. Ofcourse your site can have a great design with great pictures. But keep the search engine optimization in mind. This will definitely help your search engine rankings.
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March 18th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
was your site down for some days? I tried reading this article yest and day before, but it gave me some error. nice article.!
March 18th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Yeah, I had some hosting problems. Some other guy used a unlicensed version of Vbulletin, then everything was shut down.
Now the guy is banned and server back online. It will not happen again
March 18th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
i acc. thot it was some prob with my net access
March 20th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Yes, graphics give a nice feeling to users not the spiders.
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