10 SEO Tips for New Sites

[mandy]

Here are ten quick tips to pass along to your designers, your writers and your developers to help them create the best site from the beginning…

1.) Move JavaScript and CSS Off Page
Moving CSS and JS files off the page does two things. First, it creates cleaner code that is more easily managed. More importantly though, it frees up space that engines consider to be prime real estate. Let’s say a spider lends preferential treatment to content that appears in the first 20KB of a document. If 15KB at the start of your document is verbose JavaScript and CSS coding, you have created an uphill battle from the start…

2.) Code Validity is Key
Always make sure that the final code of your pages can fully validate according to W3C standards. Failure to validate could create accessibility issues — and the engines simply dislike that. They want to push their users out to complete sites that work for everyone.

3.) Browsable Navigation Links...

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