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Website Layout and Design

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
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Website layout and website design are important because you want to have a professional looking website that reflects well on you and your business. That being said, the question must be asked; how important is that same website layout and design regarding SEO and how your site is ranked among the search engines? The answer is that it is probably far more important than you think.

If you have ever been to a website that had far too much information on the front page and not nearly enough once you got past the cover, or if you have ever visited any website that had a poor website layout and design, you probably already have a really good idea why the layout and design for a website is important for the readers once they get on that site but did you know that all of that information is also factored in by the search engines as well?

Search engines run on a series of algorithms using computer generated “bots” and “spiders” to crawl your website. Unless you have already included a sitemap on your website, those spiders and bots do not know where to crawl to and are basically looking for all of the different corners and sizing up your website to compare it with other sites and evaluate it based on that and much more information that remains hidden from the average reader. Poor website layout and website design will result in those spiders and bots having to go in circles or endure long and weary searches which will result in your website being ranked substantially lower on the SERP or Search Engine Results Page.

Even if you have submitted a sitemap to all of the major search engines and those bots and spiders end up crawling over top of one another because your site is not well organized or properly laid out, you will still suffer greatly on the SERP. Since statistically about eighty percent of all website traffic comes from the search engines, this means that anything less than a perfect web layout and design on your site could very well be costing you up to eighty percent of your business … or at the very least people who are potential customers and clients.

When you want to build a website it is important to make it nice and pretty for your readers. A great website is about more than just looking nice however. Creating a website with the proper website layout and design is every bit as important to your ultimate success as it is to your readers. Website Layout and design is about much more than just making your site look nice, it is about making it user friendly for both humans and those dreaded (but friendly) spiders and bots from the search engines.

When you need a website, professional website layout and design services should be one of your primary concerns. Whether you are building the website yourself or hiring a professional website designer, it is a good idea to create a schematic or at least a general synopsis of what you both want and need for your website to accomplish. If you make changes along the way, just think about how they are going to affect the overall functionality of your overall website layout and design.

To learn how our Boston Web Design Company can be sure that you have the proper website layout and a great design, contact us today for you free consultation.

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Interactive Websites

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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Unless your website is a one-page wonder, you are probably going to need something more than just compelling content to keep people coming back to your website. Just for the sake of clarification, a one-page wonder is not necessarily a bad thing. Many people who have products and other sales-related items use only a single page with the expressed purpose of getting people to click on the “Buy Now” button. These websites do serve a very valuable purpose and do very well when they are constructed and promoted properly. For any other purpose, interactive websites can be an invaluable proposition.

The vast majority of people who are searching out pages on the Internet are looking for answers of one kind or another. This means that ultimately, they are looking for content. However, no matter how bad things get or no matter how good things get, people will always have problems. This is good for you as a website owner as it means that as long as you can solve those problems, you can get people to come back. However, many of the issues that people face on a regular basis are just that, and they do go on and on and on and in many cases, they are going to continue to need your assistance in solving their long-term problems.

While the content of your website should either solve those problems or point towards whatever you are selling that will solve those problems, your content alone is probably not going to be enough to generate a vast amount of return visitors to your website. Even if you keep your content updated on a regular basis, it is doubtful that this will be sufficient to keep people coming back on a scale large enough to make it viable. So what is the solution to getting people to come back and to spend more time on your site? Interactive websites are a key ingredient in getting people hooked on your site in particular.

If it can be thought up, somebody has probably written about it somewhere on the World Wide Web. With so many billions of websites out and around the world, it is difficult to imagine that very many people will be able to come up with totally new and revolutionary solutions to existing problems. That is the primary reason that you really will need some kind of hook to get people coming back to your site and in many cases, even actively promoting it for you. An interactive website will help you immensely in that cause.

An interactive website can be something so relatively simple as allowing people to communicate with one another on your site by the use of comments, a forum or even a chat room. In more complex interactive websites, full-blown community sites are set up for the purpose of allowing people to not only communicate, but get to know each other on a more personal level through the use of personal profiles in addition to their ability to communicate with one another.

What your personal needs will be for an interactive website will be based on your personal circumstances and what you have in mind for your readers. In some cases, more is worse. If for example, you are operating a very limited niche site, you may not want too much information there that would compromise your reader’s anonymity or allow people to know too much about other visitors to your site.

If on the other hand, you are building a website that is relying on your readers to contribute to the length and scope of your site, an interactive community website would probably suit your needs better. Interactive websites are not just merely the wave of the future. Interactive websites are here and they are what you are going to need now. The key to having a successful interactive website is finding out what your readers want and need and then providing them with that type of interactive website solution.

Contact our Boston Web Design Company today for your free consultation and solutions to building you an Interactive Website that will engage your readers and attract loads of traffic.

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