3 Dreadful Web Design Mistakes That Will Ruin SEO

Alma Martone
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

Creating a great website these days is not as simple as it seems, entrepreneurs or web designers do not just need to come up with great web designs that seem appealing to the viewers but appropriate web navigation as well. A local and inexperienced web designer may make errors and not be as efficient as a professional one. A white collar web designer will always prioritize providing a swift user experience and getting your website a higher SEO ranking, rather than the visual representation of your website. You should in all circumstances avoid these web design mistakes; which are bound to hurt your website’s search engine optimization.

Forgetting the Importance of a 404 Page

If an individual visits your web site and encounters a broken link, the error 404 page is shown. What a majority of websites forget to mention on this pretty much useful page is a key element on this useless page. The link which takes viewers back to the homepage. So to avoid losing fresh website viewers (who are potential clients as well), you should definitely put this method into implementation.

Overusing the Space on Your Webpage:

Crowding you’re a web page with unnecessary graphic animations, to many adverts, widgets and an excessive number of high quality pictures does not reward as fruitfully as it seems. This will only make the webpages load a comparatively slower rate, resulting in poor user experience. Not to mention; the act may even result in an unsatisfactory Search engine optimization (SEO) ranking.

Focusing on Everything else but the Page Elements:

It is agreeable that users are glad to access captioned photos, mini videos, GIF’s and numerous more fancy features on your webpages. New web designers that have expertise in creating trendy websites that include similar (as discussed above) if not the same features often tend to forget including keywords in the components of the page. Yes, this also halts the progress of your Search engine optimization ranking. So if you make the choice of not including keywords in the list of page elements, all that effort put into designing the visual draft may go to waste because how will you grab the attention of as many internet users as you can when you are not even visible on search engines? I mean you would get the views, but you are ultimately limiting the count of potential clients when prioritizing visual presentation over SEO ranking.


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