Website Design - The Importance Of SEO

Now you might think that simply knocking together a website is easy, a simple thing and an easy way to make money? Wrong.

If you want to write a website that will "Generate Sales" you need to do a few things more than simple website design.

First of all, if you just put a website online it will do nothing. It will not be indexed it, it will not generate sales and it will just sit there like a minimart in a forest.

So, to have your website be indexed by Google, Yahoo and Bing, what do you need to do?

When you write your website, keep in mind the keywords that potential customers will type in to find you. Make your website URL includes these keywords if possible.

You should also make use of your chosen keywords in the title and header of each page of your website. As an additional measure, your site text in general should include your keywords throughout. Try to use them at the start, middle and end, of each of your site's pages. This really helps the search engines to understand what your website is about.

Adding the name of a location, either before or after the product or service you are offering, is something to consider too. By adding a location to the keyword you instantly remove the vast amount of competing websites as your competition. By narrowing your niche you reduce your market, you make sure you target exactly the people you need to.

Having made sure that your on-site SEO is in place, you next need to look at "backlinking". If you over look this aspect of SEO, Google, Yahoo and Bing will almost certainly ignore your website. Your website will be ranked according to how accurately you have performed your SEO and the amount of sites that are linking to yours. The aim here is to get as many other websites to link to yours as possible. The more successful you are in achieving this, the better the ranking of your website will be.

So, those are the main points you need to think about if you want your website to not only look good, but to perform well too.

SEO companies are available to offer further assistance with anything that you don't fully understand.