Design Tips for an Internet Home Business Website
A Home Business Article Contributed by G. Uma Bennett
Design Tips for an Internet Home Business Website
Designing the website for your internet home business takes time and planning, an effective site combines your information with sound technical design. Certain software you use can affect your website performance with search engines. For instance, flash is very popular to create moving effects, but search engine spider robots have problems with finding site content in flash sites.
Load time is also a problem with flash, if a page takes longer than 8-10 seconds to become visible to your visitor, they may click away to another site. Use the correct "meta tags" for your site. The most important are the keywords and description tags. Don't forget to give each page its own 'title' that reflect the content of the page with keywords and description to match. Use background and text colors that are easy to read.
Keep your animated graphics to a minimum and avoid placing banners at the top of your page, they can distract your visitors and even be indexed by the search engines.
Preparing Your Internet Home Business for a Search Engine Visit
When you submit your internet home business website to the search engines, have you ever wondered what the spider robot see when it visits your site to index it? You may be surprised to know that it doesn't see the beautiful graphics or fancy design. In fact, the only thing the search engine is interested in looking at is your source code. Keep your internet home business site as simple as possible if you want to be indexed quickly.
The most important part of your copy is what is only visible to the search engines; the page title, keywords and description. Use your most important keywords as part of your title and in the keywords meta tag, use phrases instead of single words. This makes it easier for search engines to identify how to place you in the database. Next the search engines will look for your website content, this is the part that is visible to your visitors and should come before any graphics on your site.
Avoid Bogus Advertising for Your Internet Home Business
If you are working with a small advertising budget, keeping up with the changes that affect internet home business can save you a lot of time and money. Because of the commercial popularity of the internet, many methods that use to work well have become outdated and in some cases, can do more harm than good. One example is the very popular 'free for all' (FFA) links, which is fast becoming one of the worst methods to use to advertise your internet home business.
The concept sounds great-you place your link on a page for free and get hundreds of visitors to your site. But in reality, this does not happen. In addition, once your URL is placed on a FFA site, you increase your chances of being dropped by search engines, who actively discourage website owners from listing their sites on what they call 'link farms'. Since approximately 80% of your visitors will find you through search engines, it is in your best interest to follow their advice.
