Why is an SEO-friendly website design needed?
Search engines are only proficient at a few things. A search engine has no problem scanning through thousands of pages of texts and matching them with relevant keywords, but its speed decreases significantly against multimedia. This is why Google recommends using alt texts combined with a descriptive file name. An “alt text” or “alt tag” is a literary description of an image used within a website’s code. It allows search engines to understand the appearance and function of the picture. An “alt tag” is like a flashlight that tells search engines exactly what they are looking at. In its absence, search engines are lost in the dark and leave sections of a website unindexed. Unindexed content is a lost opportunity to gain authority and ranking with search engines. This is only one of many changes we can optimize to ensure your website builds as much credibility as possible with search engines.
Why can't I see the change?
Designing a website for SEO means working with the website’s backend code. More often than not, the results are not immediately visible to the clients or even the users, but the results are there. Suppose you optimize your website to reduce the time it takes to load the page load. Unless you measure the load time, you may not be able to identify the difference. A similar thing can happen to your users as well, who might fail to notice the change. However, having a website that loads faster is crucial for your long-term SEO plans. A website that is more accessible to users on all platforms drives high engagement, as users have more options to remain connected with your business. Much like this, the effects of including a transcript for your videos, an alt tag for your images, and reducing hidden contents, might not feel different. But these small changes will help search engines to better understand and index your website. After all, you don’t want your website popping up everywhere. You only need your website to pop up for relevant queries that are directly related to your business.
Do I need an expert to SEO my website design?
Absolutely. Understanding how a website operates is one thing, but understanding how code behaves is entirely different. Optimizing the design of a website for SEO means understanding how your website’s code works and how search engines interact with it. It involves making design choices that need to be embedded deep within the code, and unless you understand what you need to include in the code, you won’t have much success. Mindlessly tampering with the code can leave you with a bigger mess than you started. Designing a website for SEO is not just about keeping things simple. While having a simple architecture allows Google to categorize a website effectively, the end goal is to attract more customers. A website needs to address the needs of the customers while also adapting to search engines. This is where the experts come in.