This site was hacked!! An evil propeller egghead found an exploit for the version of wordpress I was using and smoked all my data. BAD EGGHEADS!! LOL! So in other words I had to start over with a brand new blog (updated to the highest degree this time) It’s also important to have the right webhost. I want to thank my webhost for its lackluster security procedures. I guess I get what I pay for.. WHICH IS TOO MUCH!!! I want to thank everybody for all the content they put on the last go round of this blog and all the great radio content. Im thinking of copying all the content in the cache that google has of the website. Anyways thanks for staying involved if your checking back. And please keep coming back and promoting your content.

One of the primary implications of a well-organized - good website, is to keep your visitors in the website. A website is definitely created for a purpose, unless intended for personal use, which is the minority.

For example, a portfolio website would want to be visited and it’s content viewed. For companies and internet businesses, your website certainly aims to provide product information, to make sales, or somewhat similar.

However, most individuals undoubtly prefer visually captivating designs, so on and so forth. It is undeniable that this causes no harm, but one must put himself(herself) in other people’s shoes,so as to understand how a visitor to the website might think, do and react.

Let us think for a moment about ‘Navigation’ - or in other words consider the implications of how easy or otherwise it is for your visitors to find his or her way around your website.

As I said, a web designer has to learn how to think the way your visitors think.

Consider the the following two examples:

Situation A : Website with good navigation (2-3 hyperlinks to target page), well planned in terms of placement, and design.

Situation B : Website with poor navigation (takes forever for the visitor to reach his or her target page),hard-to-read navigation fonts and poor placement of the navigation button bar.

In Situation A, a visitor will always want to be able to access his(her) target page. For example, the individual comes across your website, and is interested in the product sold, but wants to find more information. He(she) finds the navigation with no trouble, and enters the particular product information page.

As for Situation B, a visitor stumbles into the website, and would also like to find out more information about the product. Unfortunately, due to bad placement and fanciful font-types, the visitor takes forever,or even fails to find the navigation bar. Even when he(she) does so, links to the product information are nowhere to be found, (example : home - about - products - product image - etc…a few more clicks..- product information).

Analysis : In both situations, wouldn’t a website with characteristics similar to the Situation ‘A’ be more rewarding and be far more likely to keep your visitors on your site and therefore much more likely to purchase.

In situation’B’ Your visitor is likely to become frustrated and quickly lose patience and leave your site without even bothering to look around to see what you have to offer far less purchase from you.

So start thinking the way your visitors think and provide them with an enjoyable experience that will keep them looking around your site.

That is what I aim to do on on my website. Why don’t YOU start thinking the way Your Visitors do. There is no doubt that your increased profits will show the wisdom of this.

There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google,Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank more easily in search engines and obtain more visitors.

Major search engines use programs called crawlers or robots to index websites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, reads the content of the page and record it in their own database, pulling up the listing as people search for it.

If you want to make your site indexed easily, you should avoid using frames on your website. Frames will only confuse search engine robots and they might even abandon your site because of that. Moreover, frames make it difficult for users to bookmark a specific page on your site without using long, complicated scripts.

Do not present important information in Flash movies or in images. Search engine robots can only read text on your source code so if you present important words in Flash movies and images rather than textual form, your search engine ranking will be affected dramatically.

Use meta tags accordingly on each and every page of your site so that search engine robots know at first glance what that particular page is about and whether or not to index it. By using meta tags, you are making the search engine robot’s job easier so they will crawl and index your site more frequently.

Stop using wrong HTML tags to style your page. Use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) instead because they are more effective and efficient. By using CSS, you can eliminate redundant HTML tags and make your pages much lighter and faster to load.

I have followed these few simple rules over at my ebook marketing site to great benefit You can do the same to ensure that your Website is more search engine friendly.