Chapter 2

Building an SEO-Friendly Site

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Designing your website to be SEO-friendly

Bullet Creating a style that attracts your targeted audience

Bullet Planning your site navigation

Bullet Implementing a search within your website

Bullet Incorporating interactive media to enhance your search engine rankings

Bullet Creating pages that convert

In this chapter, you find out how to design websites with search engine marketing in mind. For many sites, search engine ranking is viewed as a part of the launch, but not as a part of the design. If you are fortunate enough to be newly building your website, you can construct it with search engine friendliness from the ground up. It’s more likely, however, that your site already resides on the web. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a new phase of your site’s development, but it’s better late than never. This chapter contains many rules of thumb that can help you ...

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