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What should my web design include for good SEO?

The best website design is both aesthetic and practical. It has to improve click-through rates and generate high value traffic for your website. So the best web designers include best practice SEO in their thinking.

Three tips:

1. Start with a SEO-friendly site structure. Communicate with your web designer why you’ve chose this structure and navigation so they understand ‘the big picture’.
2. Don’t guess. Apply tracking software to your website. Work out pains points where you lose people and get your website designer to create a solution that keeps people on the site and engaged. That’s good optimisation!
3. Design so that on-page elements – such as various headings – are designed to promote your main keywords. This is designing with business purpose, rather than “airy fairy” design that might look pretty but fail to deliver results.

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