Your Website and Search Engines --- Are they Friends? What is Content ? ----- ARTICLE ON WEB DESIGN TEMPLE.COM

If you get a web design and are happy at it without bothering about search engines than DO NOT read more from here on, because for you ignorance is bliss. But, if you are bothered about getting business from your website and are interested to know how to go about it, than read on.

Actually having a web design, but not having enough visitors coming to your website is a simple waste of time, money & effort. Today, the major source of web visitors coming to any website is from various search engines like Google, MSN Live, Yahoo & altavista, if your website is not listed here or indexed here than you might not even geta trickle of visitors.

So, it is necessary to design websites that rank higher on search engines and design web pages that are friendly with search engines. When we say friendly with search engines means that the web page should follow the designing guidelines provided by search engines to get more visitors to your website.

All the search engines today use programs knows as crawlers or bots to index websites into their database and then list their on their search pages. The crawlers or the bots follow links from other web pages, analyse the content and then index it into their database, and showing the results as and when any user demands for it.

Make sure that you completely avoid the use of frames in your website design. Frames tend to confuse the search engine bots, and because of that the search engine crawlers might skip yuor site from indexing its contents.

Using flash for web design will no doubt make your site very attractive, but that is no food for search engines. Search Engines cannot index flash files, except google, and they cannot even read what is mentioned in the images files and flash files as well. So the flash files aren't going to be indexed. We recommend using a combination of HTML and flash for web designing.

Make effective use of the meta tags like description and keyword. This are the pointers by which the search engine crawlers will decide upon the relevancy of your website to a particular keyword. The more relevant the content and keyword, the better.

Stop using outdated technology like HTML tags, instead use CSS.

Web Design Temple, a leading web designer from Indis is an expert in designing search engine friendly websites.