Top 9 SEO Mistakes Made by Designers and Developers
May 15, 2008 · Filed Under Web Design · Comment
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