SEO and website design: How to build search engine-friendly sites - Search Engine Land
Your website is the center of your digital marketing world. It's where you have the most control and where all digital marketing rivers run toward. Generally, the largest of those traffic sources is organic search. Yet, all too often, SEO is not deeply embedded when a new website is being designed (or redesigned), and SEO thinking is often only addressed after a site has launched. This is a problem. When building a new website as a marketing vehicle for your business, SEO considerations should be included in the planning stages before a line of code is written. My team and I have helped hundreds of businesses design and build sites that take their SEO and marketing to the next level. Unfortunately, we have also helped many businesses recover SEO traffic after a botched website redesign that failed to factor in SEO. This article explores why – and how – SEO plays ...