Comments on: Save a Headache: Design With SEO in Mind http://www.stuckinthefunnel.com/2009/08/save-a-headache-design-with-seo-in-mind/ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:46:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Shane http://www.stuckinthefunnel.com/2009/08/save-a-headache-design-with-seo-in-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Shane Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:34:35 +0000 http://www.stuckinthefunnel.com/?p=131#comment-7 Is this post based on recent customer work?? It must be frustrating walking into a situation like this. I think the biggest issue people have is not understanding SEO before sitting down with a web designer. The web guy is so busy "wowing" you with the cool flash intro of fun GUI stuff the customer never thinks (or knows) to ask how crawlable a site is. Or will they (the customer) have the ability to add content themselves on the back end. I have talked with a lot of designers who only know a little bit more than the average web person. This makes them that much more dangerous because they feel like they are an "expert" then. You also bring up a great point about conversion. Ask the web developer to get into the numbers behind their sites. Make sure they understand your business and are capable of converting a visitor to a lead to a sale. @Jimmy - You know he can't give the milk away for free. You only get a taste! :) Is this post based on recent customer work?? It must be frustrating walking into a situation like this.

I think the biggest issue people have is not understanding SEO before sitting down with a web designer. The web guy is so busy “wowing” you with the cool flash intro of fun GUI stuff the customer never thinks (or knows) to ask how crawlable a site is. Or will they (the customer) have the ability to add content themselves on the back end.

I have talked with a lot of designers who only know a little bit more than the average web person. This makes them that much more dangerous because they feel like they are an “expert” then.

You also bring up a great point about conversion. Ask the web developer to get into the numbers behind their sites. Make sure they understand your business and are capable of converting a visitor to a lead to a sale.

@Jimmy – You know he can’t give the milk away for free. You only get a taste! :)

]]> By: Jimmy J http://www.stuckinthefunnel.com/2009/08/save-a-headache-design-with-seo-in-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Jimmy J Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:17:22 +0000 http://www.stuckinthefunnel.com/?p=131#comment-6 We are all finding this out too late, as so many sites are already built. And the search engines keep changing their ranking techniques. Keep it coming and let us know some of the BIG secrets!! : Jimmy We are all finding this out too late, as so many sites are already built. And the search engines keep changing their ranking techniques. Keep it coming and let us know some of the BIG secrets!!

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