7 HTML Guidelines For Website Usability & SEO

It can be safely stated that everyone who owns a website wants their site to attract more traffic as this presents it with better growth opportunities. This is where many would state that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) comes to play. But in the bid to win the love, admiration and favor of search engines, people tend to forget the importance of website usability as a force that also drives quality traffic.

15 Usability Guidelines for Designing Web Site Links

Having usable web site links is an essential consideration for anyone who is developing or owns a web site. Links are a means for the user to navigate to other pages within the same web site or view related documents and external sites. Having usable links effectively means that users are more likely to achieve the objective of why they are in your web site (be it for information searching purposes or purchasing of products or services). This goal achievement will positively affect their experience, thus increasing the likelihood that they will re-visit your site and/or recommend it to their peers.

15 Title Tag Optimization Guidelines For Usability and SEO

The HTML title tag defines the name of a web page and should be used to describe content of that page in a concise way. Thus, what is placed between the opening and closing HTML title tag is extremely important for both usability and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In this post I will discuss proven guidelines that you can use to create the ultimate title tag: one that is both human and search engine friendly – a title that will help in driving quality traffic to your web site.

Content Density – Importance for Usability and SEO

Generating website content can be a tricky task. It needs to be engaging and depending on what the users’ goals are, it should also contribute a means to achieve them. Whilst it may not seem like a hard task, all of this has to be accomplished in a short and succinct manner. This leads to the concept of content density.

12 Effective Guidelines For Breadcrumb Usability and SEO

The term “breadcrumb” in web terminology is a metaphor for the way-finding technique employed by Hansel in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Although the metaphor is slightly misleading since within a web context, breadcrumbs do not always represent the path from which one has arrived at their current location, the term is clever, catchy and has caught on as the agreed upon name for this type of web navigational aid.

Whilst the breadcrumbs in the tale were not particularly useful, since they were eaten by the birds, breadcrumb navigation is very useful in web sites and software. Additionally, breadcrumbs present an SEO opportunity to make your site more search engine friendly. The objective of this article is to highlight the importance of breadcrumbs whilst providing guidelines for ensuring they are optimized for usability and SEO.