Top 9 SEO Mistakes Made by Designers and Developers
Here’s a great article I cam across over at WebDesignerWall.com
1. Splash Page
I’ve seen this mistake many times where people put up just a big banner image and a link “Click here to enter” on their homepage. The worst case — the “enter” link is embedded in the Flash object, which makes it impossible for the spiders to follow the link.
This is fine if you don’t care about what a search engine knows about your site; otherwise, you’re making a BIG mistake. Your homepage is probably your website’s highest ranking page and gets crawled frequently by web spiders. Your internal pages will not appear in the search engine index without the proper linking structure to internal pages for the spider to follow. Read more
IE please take me back
It’s been well over two years since I switched from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox. I swapped over because I was growing tired of all the spyware that IE was letting through. IE wasn’t the fastest browser back then either. Now after using IE 7 for a couple of weeks on my laptop, I’m seriously considering using it full time again.
There are a few reasons why I want to swap back, Read more
NASA Go Live With Textpattern
It’s always nice to see a high profile organization or company using an open source CMS to develop their site with. I was especially impressed with NASA’s latest offering, Astrobiology.
They’ve used a heavily modified Textpattern setup, 3,100 lines of custom plugin code to be precise. Although the site is still in the bug finding/fixing stage, it looks great and runs very smoothly too. Here’s what the designer had to say about it. Read more
Finally, a blog
After nearly a month of playing around with the Nerd gallery, I’ve finally got around to adding a blog to it. At first I wasn’t going to add a blog because I wanted to concentrate solely on showcasing brilliant designs. But then I realized, a blog will enable me to show off my findings even more because I can do the following: Read more