How Sloppy Website Design Hinders Online Success

Friday, March 28th, 2008 by Julia Hyde

Do you ever wonder why your Website is nowhere to be found on Google, Yahoo! or MSN?

If the answer is ‘Yes’ then you must read on. Your problem could be the way your website design firm designed your site.

Although many website design firms tout their design, marketing and search engine marketing expertise, one look at the code behind their clients’ sites tells a very different story: Messy, bloated HTML, 404 errors, re-directs, too many graphics, content hiding behind forms; lack of alt attributes and on, and on. In other words, the web site’s are not “built to code” and that results in the following problems for online businesses:

Problem # 1.

Search engine spiders have a harder time crawling a website that isn’t built to the standards laid down by the… Read More