Importance of website design.

[Rainee Bows]

what about its relation to SEO?

Websites design in relation to SEO ?

the 2 go hand in hand in my opinion, but i guess i would say that i design websites for a living


Rain
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[scotserve]

what about its relation to SEO?

Websites design in relation to SEO ?

the 2 go hand in hand in my opinion, but i guess i would say that i design websites for a living


Rain
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Hmmm Ok I will bite

what do you mean by "design" if you mean the aesthetics of the site - then that has little to do with SEO, however if you mean by "design" the implementation of SEO elements within the design structure then of course it does.

The word "design" though is very subjective and many would consider the design to be the overall look and feel to the site while others will view it as the look, feel & construction.

I have seen plenty sites that rank well for SEO but look cwap and also plenty of sites that are stunning visually but are not SEO friendly ( Flash sites for example) 

[conran]

I think a lot of people (myself included) overlook the relation between design and SEO.

A good example is the appearance of that chunk of text Google has under a site n Search listings.
It's hard to get this right and maintain your desired look.

Last week I was adapting my site for Google and I thought a great way to do this would be to change the text that appears in the Search results.
So I went back to my site and took a few hours rewriting that chunk of text to fit perfectly and be more persuasive to searchers.
It's harder than you'd think. Making the text flow, not repeating yourself and keeping it relevant to the rest of the text can be really difficult.

So, what happened when Google came back and crawled my site again? It chose a completely different section of text to display!   
I don't know why it did this, any ideas welcome. 

[Grifter]

I've never had a problem really with this. It will pull the exact text from meta description when kept to less than 160 characters for the keyword phrases that I might target. Obviously if someone is searching for keywords that aren't covered in the meta or are better described elsewhere it will pull what it thinks is the most relevant to the search term. It will still show my homepage as the link but will pull the description from whatever post and sentence it thinks best.

All I can imagine is that if the meta is getting overlooked for the keywords that you are targetting then to look at the text it is pulling and see if that looks more relevant. Are there other keywords in the sentence it's pulling that show up in level one of google's wonderwheel for example.

[Shoppingcartdevelopers]

Hi

Design is important and simplicity is the key.... The entire process of ecommerce and shopping should be easy to use and simple to understand and yet efficient...see people will keep coming to your store

Sumeet Shroff