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Monday, 25 August 2008

Ecommerce Web Design - 10 most common mistakes. A must read!

Being in the field of ecommerce web development, many people come to us with their website’s problems. 

 

MISTAKE #1 - Developing a website first, THEN bring in the SEO team. 

Many people call us and want us to market their existing website using SEO techniques.  MOST web designers have absolutely no knowledge of SEO and how it works.  The files should have the keywords in it. 

 

Example #1: http://URL.com/ecommerce-web-design

 

Example #2: http://URL.com/current/index.php#2

 

So when a search engine’s spider searches the web, it will choose example #1 because it knows what the webpage is about.  In addition, your keywords should be in the content of your web page. For instance, if the theme of your  website is about apparel, one of your webpages should be T-shirts. Another webpage should be pants.  FYI Google indexes individual web pages, not websites.

 

 

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