This is a guest post by Modi who is an SEO and web design expert who works for a London based health spa and telling us today the 5 common seo mistakes that most of the web designers make while designing websites for their client and why you should know them being a client to avoid loss of search engine traffic.

Are you or your web designer just focused on the designing part of the website? Making a site looking pretty is great but design shouldn’t jeopardize other important factors such as:

• Content
• Crawling
• Visibility
• Rankings
• Traffic

A very common situation many web designers come across is that they design a great website that aesthetically is very appealing, has great photos, banners, fonts etc but after a few months the phone starts ringing with the client complaining about lack of visitors and traffic.

Great design is not going to increase traffic, although it may have a positive impact in conversion. The most important thing is visibility in the search engine results. A great site that doesn’t rank on search engine is similar to a site that doesn’t exist, unless it has a very strong brand name so people will specifically look for that.

Here are 5 major seo mistakes that a web designer may commit while designing your website and why you should be very careful with it…

1. Everything On Flash

As all SEOs know but many designers don’t, any Flash web-site is no threat to its competitors as it will be seen by Google as a ”black box” without any content. Flash is great for animation, games, illustrations, slideshows and pictures but why would you like to make the whole website using Flash? Just use it reasonably just where you need it and not everywhere!

There are some ways to make Flash SEO friendly but is there one person who believes that a rich-content HTML site can be overtaken by a Flash-driven site? It is very unlikely.

With CSS3, HTML5, and advanced JavaScript (e.g JQuery library) almost anything could be done through programming. Don’t let web designers mislead you just because they know Flash and they can’t provide an SEO-friendly site using HTML and CSS.

What is easy for a designer to make, and cheap for you to buy may be the cause why your site will never meet your expectations. And everyone know how expensive re-designs are, especially if everything has to be changed!

2. Poor URLs

This is very common seo mistake as web designers do not seem to grasp that keywords in the URL are gold!

Matt Cuts from Google has made it clear that Google imitates humans, so if something appeals to a human should appeal to Google too and vice versa.

• Very long URLs with various parameter/value pairs are definitely to be avoided.
• Displaying the whole site hierarchy in a URL is also to be avoided as the closer the key-phrase to the domain name, the more power it will gain!

3. Poor Page Titles

Keywords in the title of a HTML document are very powerful and have to be generated considerably. However, poor page titles is a very common seo mistake web designers make and it appears in many different forms such as:

Missing Titles – Those are pages without any page title so will be displayed in the SERPs as ‘Untitled Page’.  Even though it sounds unlikely to happen, a search for “Untitled Document” in Google returns some 18 million pages!

Duplicate Titles – This is when two or more pages have identical titles. This usually happens because web designers have overlooked the page titles so they all end up being titles in the same way, depending on what title the template originally had.

Short Titles – This is a seo mistake in a sense that a short title won’t maximise the possibility to target a few keywords in the page title.

Long Titles – This is also called cannibalization and refers to the situation when too many similar keywords appear in the page titles different pages and search engines get confused as to which page to rank. The title should always reflect the unique content the page and nothing more than that.

Poor Keyword titles – This is another classic problem which occurs when designers include titles in natural language as if they are talking to someone. Stop words such ‘as a, and, or etc’ are always being ignored by search engines. Mixing keywords with other irrelevant words is also a bad practice as this way the weight of the targeted keywords will be devalued.

Brand Name in Titles – There is a tendency to include the brand name in the title of every single page. This is completely unnecessary and if you do it you will be sacrificing important keywords for something that:

• Appears in the URL
• Appears in the Logo
• People may already be aware
• People may not be interested in

Google can display a maximum of 70 of the characters that appear in the title so think carefully before you decide to waste some of those for something that is not so important.

4. Text In Images

Graphic designers love adding text in images, photos and banners because:

1. They can create custom fonts that look unique and nice
2. They can do them quickly
3. They don’t know any other way to do it
4. They don’t know how bad it is for SEO

Again, there are many ways to add text in an image so it will be crawled by search engines and add extra value to the keywords of the page. With CSS and JavaScript the same effects can be reproduced. All you need is just a skill-full developer with a creative mind.

5. 302 Redirects

Not all redirects are the same and many people seem to ignore that. There is a fundamental difference between permanent (301) redirects and temporary (302) ones. 302s are not recommended unless you really want to temporarily redirect a page to another one. 302 redirects, especially across different domains can create serious issues and should be avoided. With 301 permanent redirects you would play safe.

Conclusion

So that were the 5 most common seo mistakes web designers make. In case you are a web designer, make sure you make your client’s business search engine optimized, by not committing above seo mistakes.

Or if you are soon going to have a web design work for your website, then make sure you clear all these things with your web designer as a client and make your website design seo optimized.

Do let us know your thoughts about this article. If you know some more common seo mistakes that you have seen on websites that look more focused toward web design then do let us know that.

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This is a guest post by Nabeel Ahmed from Mushive.com who is sharing with us in this post, a wordpress tutorial to control wordpress post revisions.

WordPress by default creates revisions of your posts automatically. Whenever you save a page or post, the older version is retained so that you can revert it back at any time.

Sure this feature is handy at times but it is understandable that every revision would take its own space in the database. This would mean nothing for a few revisions but as your blog grows bigger & each post or page has multiple revisions; it shows its effect.

This makes it necessary to do some housekeeping & gain control over revision by removing older revisions to free up disk space and ease MySQL’s processing burden. This also has effect on the speed of your blog.

Here I am sharing 3 ways in which you can keep a check on post revisions & keep them under control or disable post revisions completely. (But before we begin I advise you to BACKUP YOUR DATABASE):

1. Remove Old Revisions

I am going to repeat BACKUP YOUR DATABASE because in this step we are about to run SQL command directly on your MySQL tables & one tiny slip can break your wordpress installation. First, you need to find your WordPress table prefix which is specified in the following line of wp-config.php:

$table_prefix  = ‘wp_’;

wp_ is the default table prefix but it may have been changed as a measure of added security. We’ll assume wp_ has been specified in the following code.

To delete all revisions for all pages and posts, start a MySQL administration tool such as phpMyAdmin and run the following SQL statement:

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = ‘revision’;

(Remember to change all table references from “wp_” to your table prefix if necessary.)

If that’s a little too severe, you could remove all revisions prior to a specific date, e.g. the following statement will remove all revisions except for those made after January 1, 2010:

DELETE a,b,c
FROM wp_posts a
LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id)
WHERE a.post_type = ‘revision’
AND a.post_date < ’2010-01-01′;

2. Limit or Disable Post Revisions

Add the following statement to your WordPress wp-config.php file to permanently disable post revisions:

define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);

The value can be set to ‘true’ to re-enable revisions.

Alternatively, you can use a positive integer to limit the number of permitted revisions, e.g.

define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, 5);

This will create a maximum of 5 revisions per post, plus one for auto-saving purposes. Older revisions will be automatically deleted.

3. Use WordPress Plugins

If this all sounds a little too scary, than there are a number of WordPress plugins offering revision control.

Do you have any further tips for controlling WordPress revisions? Share it with us by commenting below…

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This is a guest post by iYingHang who blogs at his superb technologies blog Shastera Dot Com and today is telling us about creating a superb autoresponder course.

Offering e-Courses like Mr. John Chow is an easy and superb way to build relationships with your blog readers. As we all know, creating an autoresponder course is not a big deal at all. Well, somebody said that it just sounds too good to be true so I am going to prove them wrong.

Basically, a killer autoresponder course is not difficult to create and it can be summarized into only 5 easy peasy steps!

#1 – Choose A Subject

The very first easy step in creating a superb autoresponder course is to decide the subject and niche of your course. You don’t send vegetarians emails about “how great the new McDonald’s McChicken is”. They just won’t buy it. You should also target a subject, which you have knowledge in, not just some stupid niche, which you aren’t really sure about. For example, before blogging at my technologies blog Shastera, I was clueless about which niche I should start blogging in and in the end I thought that why not technologies since I am such an avid Apple fan?

#2 – Create A Subtopic

Niche and subject choosing is the first step whereas next you need to create is a list of subtopics. One lesson will be represented in each sub-topic and if you have 5 sub-topics, it can be offered to your subscribers as a free 5-day course.

#3 – Dividing Your Lessons

Now that you’ve your list of sub-topics ready; the next step is to separate each of the sub-topics into course lessons. In the first lesson, do not offer any sub-topics to be taught but instead you should introduce the whole lesson and most importantly yourself to them.

#4 – Providing Valuable Content

One of the most important factors in deciding the success of your autoresponder course is to provide good, valuable and informative content which is relevant to the niche of your subscribers.

You see, sometimes, people says branding is much more decisive in marketing but what I can tell you is that if Coca Cola starts producing Coke which smells like polluted water, they won’t go any further and Pepsi will overtake them.

By giving out lousy content, what I can tell you is to expect multiple readers unsubscribing from your list.

#5- Setting Up Your Autoresponder Course

Now that you’ve prepared your course, what you need to do is to transfer your text into your autoresponder. There are a lot of autoresponders out there and it is quite a hassle to make a good choice. I recommend you to try out two which I think are the best, “Aweber” and “Mail Chimp”. They are the best autoresponder service out there and many popular probloggers like John Chow and Dareen Rowse are using them.

After getting everything working, you will need to place a javascript code on your site to capture email addresses. Offering free autoresponder course to your clients, visitors and readers is very important as you are giving out value which they will certainly appreciate. This method of free advertising surely will increase your sales.

If you are into online list building and looking to start an autoresponder course after reading this article then do read our guest post “Online List Building: IMMEDIATE Download Or 7-Day E-Course?” that compares whether you should start an autoresponder course or not.

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This is a guest post by Ann Smarty who is a SEO consultant.

It seems that everyone these days has a WordPress blog. It’s not at all surprising. After all, these blog sites are easy to create and maintain. Beyond that, they allow individuals to easily run their own site, and provide a great marketing mechanism for any business that’s smart enough to branch into social networking.

Despite how attractive and simplified a WordPress site is, however, you still have plenty of options for improving your blog. One of the major areas that advanced webmasters can fine tune is the loading speed of the site.

Why Site Speed Is Important?

The load time of your site may be a more important factor in the success of your website than you realize. It should be obvious that your visitors will be far happier with fast load times than slow ones. Beyond that, however, your load speed may actually have a direct affect on your site’s search engine optimization.

According to the official Google blog entry created on April 9th, 2010, Google will be using a site’s load speed as one of the factors in its search algorithm. In plain talk, that means that a faster loading site will rank better. While Google is the only major search engine that has announced that load speed will be a factor as of June, 2010, the other major search engines frequently mimic additions to Google’s search rankings.

Here Are Some Simple Tips For Speeding Up Your WordPress Blog :

Choosing A Reliable Hosting Plan

Sticking to a reliable hosting provider is crucial. This is why I usually recommend choosing a well-known hosting provider: it may cost more but it will save your time and money in the long run!

You may also consider going with some wicked hosting service like hosted exchange for example which usually means more reliable plan as well as other cool benefits as well.

Cleaning Your Code

Speeding up your WordPress blog can start with running through your code and cleaning it up in a few different ways. While the standard WordPress templates are fairly clean, they are also designed for “the average blogger.”

To make these templates easier to upload and simple enough for beginning webmasters to use, the code of WordPress blogs includes a long list of php references that could easily be hard coded or deleted entirely. Eliminating these php references will speed up how quickly your blog loads, and can also add to the stability of your site.

Clearing Out Your Plugins

Plugins and widgets can add some great functionality to your site, but they aren’t going to help you achieve the “fastest possible load time.” You certainly shouldn’t eliminate useful features from your site, but removing any unused plugins will make a significant difference in load time.

Add A Cache Plugin

While clearing out plugins that you don’t use is a great idea, one specific type of plugin should be added: a caching plugin. Cache plugins make large strides toward speeding up your WordPress blog by storing each of your posts directly on the server.

Normally, WordPress uses a database query to load your post, and this can result in a slow site load time if you have a lot of traffic. Beyond these tips for eliminating unnecessary database delays and clearing up messy code, you will also want to be sure that any elements, such as images, that you include are individually optimized.

I hope you would have liked reading this article and you attain the best possible loading speed for your wordpress blog. Do comment below if you have more tips or ways to speed up wordpress blog.

[If you liked reading this then you must consider reading : "How To Speed Up WordPress Blog In 3 Simple Steps".]

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This is a guest post by Murray who shares make money online tips at his blog Murlu.com.

A blog header has two main goals:

• Convey the overall message of your post
• Entice a visitor to read your post

So why do so many blogs skip out on such an important part of their blog posts? Certainly it’s not the lack of images available on the net. With thousands of available resources, you have no excuse not to be taking advantage of all the great benefits of using an enticing blog header image.

Skipping over the opportunity to create an header image lowers the opportunities for visitors to read your content. After you’ve driven visitors to your blog, the point is to get them to read. A great header image is one additional element that converts visitors into readers.

This post is going to show you just how easy it is to find great images to create an enticing blog header image.

1. Creative Commons Search

Hands down, the easiest method to create a powerful and enticing blog header image is to use images that fall under creative commons. Creative commons, depending on each level, generally allows you to use images in a non commercial manner.

This means you’re able to modify, post and use these images throughout your website as long as you give appropriate credit to the owner.

The easiest way to find a great image to use for your blog header is to do a creative commons search on the web. A great search engine is available at Creative Commons Search.

This search allows you find creative commons images on many websites such as:

• Flickr
• Wikimedia
• Jamendo

You’ll be sure to find very interesting images you can use to create amazing blog header images. Most of these images are uploaded by amateur photographers but it doesn’t mean they aren’t worthwhile, you’ll find many you like and appropriate for your content.

2. Icons and Freebie Packs

Many designers offer free brushes, icons and tools to create amazing header images.

There are thousands of free icons available online at IconsPedia which fit your niche. If you write about making money online, you can do a general search for money related icons.

Designers also offer brushes of all sorts: ink splatters, skylines, nature – the list is endless. Use your own creativity to create variations of your blog header image.

Using these icons and freebie packs, you will be able to create a unique header from your own creativity.

3. Free Stock Photos

Stock photography doesn’t have to be just for business and print media, you can also use these valuable images to create enticing blog header images.

Websites such as SXC.HU offer free stock photos that fall under creative commons.

Thousands of photographers upload endless amounts of images to free stock photography websites so your choices are endless. There are literally thousands of images that depict acts which will be appropriate for your blog content.

Why A Blog Header Matters

People make split decisions online, capturing their attention with a powerful headline and blog header image is your best way to pull them in and read your blog post.

The blog header image helps convey to the reader what your post will be about. The image can also be used to peak the visitors interest and be used as a metaphor which can later be explained in the post, giving your reader the “ah-ha” moment.

Simply load your favorite image editing software, play around with the settings and images you use and in no time you’ll be able to create a unique and enticing header image.

You owe it to yourself to make each of your blog posts the best you can. Including a great header images, using the resources in this post will start you in the right direction.

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