Basic Tips on Webpage designing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for Web Designers (Capiz, Philippines)
Graphics & Lay-out
1. Use small graphics for your designs (10-20 KB per image). Large file will make your pages to load very slow. Search Engines hate slow pages.
2. Avoid a 'NO TEXT, ALL GRAPHICS' page. Search engines can't read text within your graphics. All Graphics page will make your page good in the eyes of the viewer but it will be very invisible for the Search Engine Crawlers.
3. Do not use images that blink or move or change or rotate or flash or do anything on your page. Or use them sparingly. There have been many studies that show that flashing graphics are distracting and annoying to people. In fact, in one focus group I watched the browsers actually physically cover up flashing graphics so that they could read the rest of the page. (from about.com)
4. Choose the appropriate TITLE for your website. Avoid acronyms.
5. Avoid hidden text. Hiddent texts are text/keyword typed that are intentionally resized to the smallest font and colored as the same color with the background. Google penalized it as a spam and may ban the website/page.
Links
1. Avoid 'DEAD LINKS'. Dead links are hyperlinks that point a page or link that does not exist. Search engine hate this too.
2. Avoid unrelated links. Try to put external links (links that does not belong to your domain / website), that is relevant to your site.
3. Create a blog that discuss the launch of your website and discuss anything about your website and put a link that will point to your website. Blog's are usually crawled or visited by Search Engines faster than an ordinay web site. Usually every 72 hours Blogs are visited by Crawlers. If your blog will be crawled, your site will be followed and seen by SE through the blog.
4. Try to create a page that contains links of all the pages of the website (a sitemap). Put a link to your main page (index.htm) that will point to the sitemap page.
Submit your URL
1. Submit your website to leading search engines and directory like Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, and DMOZ.ORG. Don't worry its free.
Find more tips on the internet there are many good samaritans all over the WWW that gives good tips for SEO and web page designs, look for it.