Let's face it...there are some websites that the web site designer had design in mind or how far up in the search engines they can rank and it stops there. Over the years I have repeatedly seen too many web designer mistakes. Some designers focus only on design while others focus on search engine ranking. How do we balance this out? I have listed the most common web design flaws below.

• Too many images
• Sites built in Photoshop
• Tables width, where viewer has to scroll to the right and left
• Too much animation
• Navigation problems
• Pop-Ups
• Poor use of frames
• Too much advertising
• Large welcome banners
• Mouse-over errors
• Under construction pages and/or signs
• Scrolling text in the status bar
• Animated bullet
• No organization
• No address, city or state

All of the above web design flaws can kill your search engine visibility. Search engines can have problems with spidering websites that have mostly images, use frames, etc. The search engines look for content rich websites with the use of meta tags, links and properly coded html. When a web designer is focused only on the design they overlook the following:

• Title tag missing or improperly used
• Meta tags missing or improperly used
• Front and backend optimization
• No keywords on page or overuse of keywords
• Links that are not keyword enriched

Designing your website with a professional look and feel with the search engines in mind will greatly benefit your online experience. To gain a potential client will only come by how professional and trustworthy your website is and how they found you in the search engines. A professional web designer will focus on design and exposure at the same time. If you are shopping for a web site designer then view both designed sites and optimization for these same websites the designer has built.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : All Day Web Design based in Houston Texas is a web design and development company who possesses over 10 years experience in highly ranked dynamic websites.