5 Signs Your Web Designer Knows Nothing About SEO

Posted by alastair under Online Marketing
From http://www.lunametrics.com 5238 days ago
Made Hot by: yoni67 on July 21, 2010 7:15 pm

This is a bit of a rant and it is funny but there is a serious point. Every web designer out there seems to claim to do SEO these days. We all come across companies daily who thought their designer was going to "SEO" their site. Can you spot an SEO in that crowd? Do you know why you might need to?

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Written by businessavante
5237 days ago

Very Funny & Very Informative, but I think Calvin needs a nap!!

businessavante

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Written by swssem
5237 days ago

Very funny - and oh so true! But we've found there are also lots of web designers/developers who know they don't know SEO and are looking for good SEOs to partner with. When you find one, it makes for a great partnership!

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Written by alastair
5235 days ago

Specialists are a joy. People who understand that they have specific skills, value them and are confident enough to realise that there might be something of worth in what other people do.

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Written by amabaie
5237 days ago

All good signs. The big two, though, are not on the list.

1. The designer thinks that setting up meta tags means the site is optimized (which has not been true for over a decade).

2. The designer thinks that just optimizing the site's pages is enough to rank well and get traffic(which is really only the set-up work required before the real heavy lifting begins).

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Written by alastair
5235 days ago

Those certainly are big signs alright. The notion that you can get your site SEO'd just misses so many points.

How does a poor site owner have a chance when notions like those are spread by the professionals giving them advice?

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Written by alastair
5238 days ago

Thank you Yoni,

Glad to see you enjoyed it. I really wish I'd written this one myself.

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Written by yoni67
5238 days ago

Alastair,

Amusing and informative. Thanks for two great submissions this morning. In the span of five minutes you have provided a great deal of useful, important and educational material!

Yoni

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