10 SEO Rules for Designers

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a vital component of any website. As a web designer or blogger, it’s important you understand how SEO works. Here are ten easy rules that will immediately improve the SEO on all of your web sites. By Just Creative

9 SEO Tips You’ve Probably Forgot About

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) has, as most of you probably know by now, become one of the most important elements when setting up a website. By Just Creative

SEO in 2013: The Year of the Consumer

2012 was one of the most significant years for SEO in recent history (hint hint penguin). A multitude of search engine algorithm updates dramatically altered the manner in which search engine optimization is conducted. By InspiredMag

Making Your Mobile Website SEO Friendly

Need to learn more about smartphone and mobile SEO best practices? Let’s start with a few statistics:

According to an infographic from Microsoft Tag, 51% of smartphone users are more likely to buy from a retailer with a mobile specific web site, however: only 4.8% of retailers have a mobile web site. By DevWebPro

6 Tips For Designing an SEO Friendly Website

It’s not enough these days to design a beautiful, functional website that addresses your clients needs. If you truly want your client to reap the benefits of having an online presence, then SEO is a necessity. By Stephanie

Traits Every Small Business Website Should Have

There is always vast room for improvement with any website, and small business websites are no exception. With the phone book a communication tool of the past, establishing a solid online presence is at the forefront of a lot of small businesses. By Stephanie

What Potential Impact Can HTML5 Have on SEO?

Although still a work in progress, HTML5 is the next major revision of the HTML standard. HTML, which is the markup language that allows us to structure and present our web content, is the primary factor in search engine optimization efforts. HTML gives search engines the needed context they need to understand what’s contained in a web page. By Adam Heitzman

A Commonsense Approach to Improving SEO of Images and Videos

Search engine spiders haven’t yet evolved to the point where they can directly extract the meaning from a visual medium such as a photo or a video. Instead, search engines must rely on the metadata we provide them through alt attributes, title attributes, surrounding elements (for context), and so on. By Alex Galasso

Looking Beyond Google PageRank: Alternative SEO Metrics

When it comes to SEO, Google’s PageRank (PR), which is the most used SEO ranking metric, is vague and unhelpful. Although most SEOs would agree that it’s an indication of a page’s popularity (or power), it’s unclear why that’s so or exactly how popular a ranked website is. By Modi Mann

10 Excellent SEO Tips That Will Improve Your Web Design

A great website design is important to any business trying to find success online, but if a website doesn’t have a chance at good search rankings, very few people may ever get to see it. By Adam Heitzman

Bad website architecture: the silent seo killer

If you manage your own website and you are a SEO do-it-yourselfer, you need to know what questions to ask and the answers to each. If you don’t, you need professional assistance from an SEO consultant. By Web Savvy Marketing

SEO and Web Design Trends 2011

Over the past year much more has been changed in the world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and web design than thought. By Cyber DesignZ

Coding a Design: SEO Best Practices and Mistakes to Avoid

For any online business, website has become the foremost important asset. It is really indispensable that it should be designed and developed in a way that it facilitates and boost the business activities and ultimately become the revenue generating medium for the business. By Justin Spencer

40 Title Tag SEO for Google Ranking Factors & Optimization Techniques + Resources

Not all title tag optimization techniques are ranking factors for Google but they need to be implemented as well in a thorough on-site SEO campaign. By Tad Chef

10 SEO Tips to Remember When Building Your Site

Let us assume that, just like everyone else, you are building a website–after all, the Web is where it is all happening now. By Mark Cronin

Effective Search Engine Optimization for Web Designers

Many clients ask their web designers to optimize their website to increase visibility with search engines and to attract more visitors. By Vandelay Design

9 Ways To Improve the SEO of Every Website You Design

One of the biggest challenges that online businesses face today is maintaining relevance in the eyes of the search engines, especially Google. By Alex Cleanthous

Search / SEO Metrics & Analytics Questions + Answers

How do you measure success of a online webinar? By Avinash Kaushik

SEO Strategy and Your CMS; Are They Working Together?

For years now, businesses have understood the importance of search engines and how SEO can drive prospects to their websites. But with websites having a shelf life of one to two years, businesses often perform redesigns. Along with redesigns come new web development vendors and new Content Management Systems.

Useful Tips Every Web Designer Should Know About SEO

In the process of developing a web site, there are many professional profiles that work on it, one of these is the SEO profile (Search Engine Optimization). If you are working in a web agency, usually there’s a professional profile that works only on search engine optimization, giving you the freedom to work with image editing, (x)html and css. But if you are a freelance, then you should spare money and do this your self. By Antonio Fullone