Comments on: Does Your Website Deserve to be Ranked?

By: Michael Latulippe

Michael Latulippe — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:47:13 +0000

I have been advocating these very ideas for a while now.

We can’t just simply design Websites for machines and not humans. Poor Web usability and a lack of goals set for human users can mean doom to any PPC or marketing campaign from the start. Usability often entails having set goals for prospective leads etc. In any SEO campaign the issue of site design, Web usability, stellar content, and using computers as a persuasive technology should be paramount.

I wrote a book in regards to this issue available on Amazon, but its also free to read on my Website. You are all welcome to read it. It is titled “The Convergence of SEO and Web Usability” and discusses the implication of acclerating technological change on two important areas of optimization processes.

Here is the link if anyone wants to check it out: http://www.becomenoticed.com/r/convergence.php

By: Louie Sison

Louie Sison — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:31:18 +0000

I laughed when you said facelift. That is a great humor and a point at the same time.

By: Daniel Lew

Daniel Lew — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:39:05 +0000

I tend to agree with what you said and relate to what you mentioned, I think it’s true that site visitors need to find an attraction initially and then they need to come back so they need for the girl (as an example that you mentioned) to continue to be nice, not just the first time but all the time.

Relationships take work!

Good post!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:47:25 +0000

Good article. Content is king and if the information is helpful people will come back and even link to your site. I recently redesigned my site though I am not too happy with it. Will probably redesign yet again. It will be worth it in the long run.

By: csjoe

csjoe — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:53:34 +0000

Very good point! If your site has good content, people will link to it in blogs. And here it is.. link building

By: Karen Clark

Karen Clark — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:12:27 +0000

LOL! Thank you for saying what a lot of people have been thinking. Whether led astray by web designers or having an unfortunate case of do-it-yourself-gone wrong, many people need to hear this message! I’m sharing it!

By: PostTwo

PostTwo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:59:57 +0000

Nailed it! Content is still king. People may be able to get away with poor content for a while, but in the long run, it’s the sites with great content and actual “meat” on the bones that get ranked and stay ranked.

Would you believe that after linking to a friend’s site in a blog post, he emailed me and asked if I would modify the anchor text to his keywords? Using those words in the text would have made the sentence nonsensical, but he didn’t care.