Beware Of These SEO Barriers From Web Hosts Who Provide Design Services

Many folks who are new to web sites and the Internet will always prefer a web host who is able to give them a package that includes web design. There is of course absolutely nothing wrong with this except that many times the client ends up getting a raw deal because of their limited knowledge of the web and in particular search engine optimization.

Here are a number of common barriers that careless web designers some of whom do not quite understand search engine optimization will tend to leave for clients who are new to the web.

To start with, sites that use frames usually separate the frameset from the content of the page, making it impossible for search engines to find the content of the framed pages in their results. This means they cannot be indexed, meaning that they do not exist as far as search engines are concerned. On average over 80 per cent of the traffic that sites receive originate from search engines. That is a huge chunk of traffic for any site to lose.

If your web hosts's designer has created framed pages for your site, then you need to get then to convert them to standard non-framed pages so that search engine spiders can "see" them.

Then there is the fact that many web designers love to utilize images to display text for page headings and navigation elements. This is done to enhance the design. Nothing wrong with that except that you should know that search engines are not able to view text that is presented as images. You should also consider that quite often some visitor's browsers will not be able to view the images, meaning that they will not be able to read vital parts of your website.

There are a number of other SEO barriers that web designers included in web hosts's packages may have created that are preventing your site from being the success it deserves to be. However these two are probably the most common.