A significant number of web sites did not meet its mission of promoting by inappropriate design techniques that prevent search engine rankings have been used.
There are plenty of techniques and tools for web design. Decide what language, platform and development standards used to design a new site for your business; it is the responsibility of the web design agency. However, it is recommended that you get involved as much as possible in this decision, contrary to what your company may face various problems months later when the web site is already in production.
A website, seen simply as a set of texts, logo, images and colors, it seems relatively simple to create. Some customers even they asking how much difference can there be between one place and another. To the surprise of many, in practice, the differences can be substantial, as large as the success or failure of the project. Behind every website there is a technique, a style, a tool, a language, a standard, a difficulty and finally a target too. After all the planning, investment, effort and dedication to the project, working sessions and content production, among many other activities, it is finally: the source code of the website.
Different Techniques Used
After reviewing thousands of sites for more than a decade of operation of our firm, still surprises me to discover the different techniques that can be used to development of a website. Some of them are so sophisticated, many times more complicated than strictly necessary, that there is more than recognizing human creativity in the use and application of this technology.
The problem is not creativity, but rather loses objectivity. The primary mission of a page does not look sober and elegant, and easily manageable. Neither are having the latest technology and the highest standards. Not that these features do not matter. Does matter a lot, but they all have a secondary role. What is necessary, the transcendental, substantial, is that your website will help you to promote your products and services, which is the main objective in most of the internet marketing projects.
Focus On Promoting
Having a web designer with a mission embedded in his mind other than promoting a business, it spells trouble. A few days ago we reviewed the source code of a website that has not established itself in search engine code. The designer had created a complex block of code to display the text of the page. This programming style text became invisible in the eyes of Google, which is a terrible mistake when you are pretending to promote the products and services to the customer.
Just as this case, we could speak to hundreds of sites that have implemented sophisticated design techniques that are not appropriate for promoting products and services online. The list is huge, endless. Unfortunately are more sites designed with these “special techniques” produced by applying best practices in web design?
Designing a useful and effective website is not easy task, but that has not been complex. We simply must focus our efforts to make the site speak the language of search engines, instead of devising how to use those tags and functions that have found a manual to make life easier for us designers to create and maintain the website .
All our creativity must focus on an important mission: to help our customers to promote their products and services online through a website that speaks the language of the major search engines.
