Introduction to Website Design and SEO

One of the things that a search engine factors into your website SEO is your business’s presence on social media. This includes Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other platforms. When creating your website, make sure to include links to your social media channels on your website. As your following on social media grows, the SEO on your page will improve. Social Media

One of major things factored into your website’s SEO is the loading speed of the site. Above, we briefly covered that aspect with images, but there are other items to consider. As an example, you need to consider what scripts are running on your page, plus if all of the code is up to date. Having a quick load speed is important for a high SEO score on your site. Load Speed

This is one part of SEO you won’t be able to immediately have when you create your website: backlinks. Backlinks are links to your website from other, reputable sites. Focus on creating exceptional content that naturally attracts backlinks, and consider guest posting on relevant websites to build your backlink profile. This means creating blog content or other items that others may want to link to. Backlinks More and more users are looking at websites on a mobile device. This means you need to ensure that your website is optimized for mobile. Some platforms do this automatically (like Squarespace), but other platforms need some extra work for this to happen. Always make sure to check your website on multiple different mobile devices, since how it appears on an Apple device may be different from how it appears on an Android. Usability

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