Responsive Site Redesign: 4 SEO Considerations Whether you've already decided to go responsive or you're still considering a responsive site redesign, there are some things you'll need to look out for from an SEO standpoint. Above the fold issues, content strategy, internal links, and mobile specifics can trip you up. Before we begin, there's an important distinction between cosmetic and full redesigns. This distinction primarily comes down to one thing: are URLs on your site changing? The following analysis focuses on common issues with cosmetic redesigns, moving from a non-responsive site to a responsive website design 1. Homepage Above The Fold Area (Desktop) This is where it starts to get awkward with the web designers. Responsive design, kind of like the blow out, has it's own style and look, which may at times conflict with some best practices for SEO. Responsive design is visually very much about whitespace and letting different elements breathe. One simple way to fix the issue: find savings to push linked content up. 2. 3. 4.
Responsive & Responsible Web Design in DNN 14 Tips on How to Become a More Efficient SEO Professional If you’re at work, you know there are things that you could be doing right now to improve your website’s SEO. Chances are you probably have a social network open in another browser tab right now as you're reading this, and you've probably checked your email at some point in the last 10 minutes. How much work have you actually done in the last hour? The last few days? This month? Would you have expected more from that time if you had been paying someone by the hour to do your job? In today’s tough economy, SEO professionals who constantly try to boost their productivity are going to go far. However, most SEO professionals live on the web, where distractions are myriad and something new crops up almost every minute. In the past I found myself slacking off at work and I had to confront myself with the truth that my productivity level and low attention span was something I couldn't afford to ignore. Stay Focused With Helpful Software and Browser Extensions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
12 Resources for Responsible, Responsive Design | Search Discovery by John Williams There are more ways to access online content these days and, as designers, it’s up to us to make sure that content is presented in an effortless, attractive way regardless of how a visitor is viewing that content. Used to be, we’d have to create complicated mobile optimized sites that sit on their own domain, completely removed from the content of the full site. Then the iPhone came and ushered in the app boom. That’s where responsive design comes in. Learning Resources 1. This is where it all started. 2. Treehouse has a great primer for responsive web design. 3. UX Booth is run by a talented bunch. Frameworks 4. Semantic Grid is a framework for creating grid-based responsive layouts without adding a lot of cluttered markup to the HTML. 5. This framework was created and released by Twitter. 6. Created by the wiz kids at Zurb, Foundation is similar to Twitter Bootstrap in it’s depth. Testing Tools 7. responsive.is 8. responsivepx.com ResponsivePX is similar to the last tool.
searchenginewatch.com/article/2257055/14-Tips-on-How-to-Become-a-More-Efficient-SEO-Professional If you’re at work, you know there are things that you could be doing right now to improve your website’s SEO. Chances are you probably have a social network open in another browser tab right now as you're reading this, and you've probably checked your email at some point in the last 10 minutes. How much work have you actually done in the last hour? The last few days? This month? Would you have expected more from that time if you had been paying someone by the hour to do your job? In today’s tough economy, SEO professionals who constantly try to boost their productivity are going to go far. However, most SEO professionals live on the web, where distractions are myriad and something new crops up almost every minute. In the past I found myself slacking off at work and I had to confront myself with the truth that my productivity level and low attention span was something I couldn't afford to ignore. Stay Focused With Helpful Software and Browser Extensions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
The Ultimate Collection of 50+ Resources for Grid Lovers If you love grid-based design, this article is for you. We’ve scoured the web and compiled every great grid resource we could find. We’ve got all the best frameworks, grid builders, how-to guides and more. Commence browsing and bookmarking! Hate Grid Frameworks? Before we get started, I just want to say that I know full well that many of the people reading this are already bursting with anger about the evils of layout frameworks. In truth, there’s a lot to be said against grid frameworks. If you fall into the camp of CSS framework haters, don’t worry there are still plenty of grid design resources below that have nothing to do with frameworks. Rolling Your Own Grid Layouts On the Fly I recently published a piece on how to easily achieve complex multi-column layouts quickly and all on your own without complicated frameworks or non-semantic class names. Gridless Stack Layout A flexible width, component based CSS layout system that makes heavy uses of inline-block elements. HTML5 Boilerplate Frak
WTF is SEO? Ever had a massive, life-changing epiphany? Me neither. However, I’ve slowly reached the conclusion that we’re doing SEO all wrong. Not in the do-real-marketing sense, or the we-need-to-change-the-name sense. After 17+ years of beating my head against walls like IT departments, branding teams and disbelieving CFOs, I’ve figured out why: SEO isn’t an activity, or a tactic, or a strategy. SEO isn’t a tactic In marketing, a tactic is a single, atomic thing you do to reach a goal: Direct mail isn’t a tactic, it’s a channel. SEO is not a marketing tactic. Most SEO tactics influence other parts of marketing: A faster site means better conversion rates. SEO isn’t a strategy It’s not a strategy, either. For SEO, you target. Getting those details right isn’t “a strategy,” unless you want to call “Don’t be a dolt” a strategy. Strategy is an approach that includes all roles in an organization. We (almost) ruined it Remember the meta keywords tag? Remember link building? Remember this? It’s not dead
50 fantastic tools for responsive web design | CSS3 As introduced/coined by Ethan Marcotte in both his article "Responsive Web Design" as well as his best-selling book, one needs three elements to make a site responsive: A flexible/fluid gridResponsive imagesMedia queries There are plenty of other great articles that cover motives, concepts, and techniques regarding responsive web design, so we'll keep the focus of this article on some top tools that will help you become responsibly responsive. Tools for starting out Before you start with building your site, it's best to sketch out how the elements on the page will adapt to fit the different browser sizes of the various devices that they will be viewed upon, and to avoid the disconnect that often comes from thinking primarily about the desktop design and the rest of the responsive iterations as an afterthought (see especially Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis' comment). 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. Tools for a flexible/fluid grid 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. slabText 23.
When Will SEO Die? The Death of SEO [Infographic] Yes, But Only to Some People... This infographic highlights how some have claimed SEO to be "dead" for over a decade now & yet even after the social media ponzi scam imploded, SEO is still alive and kicking. Please note this piece does not say all people working in all these fields are hacks ignorant of SEO (we have brilliant friends at start ups & web design shops & so on that are razor sharp with SEO), but rather to highlight particularly egregious & bogus claims shouted loudly by an absurd few. The goal of this infographic was that whenever the "death of SEO" topic is brought up someone can quickly post this image as a response. :D A few years ago Danny Sullivan wrote a great article covering the "death" topic. Spread the Word You can embed a this infographic on your blog or website. Simply copy the below code and paste it into your website. :) 640 Pixels Wide 1200 Pixels Wide Poster Time? PDF version here. Comments / Feedback / Suggestions? Have feedback?
10 Tips to Get You Started with Responsive Design by Jacqueline Thomas on 08/12/14 at 8:55 am According to a recent study, a quarter of all Americans use mobile devices only to access the web. One out of every five people in the world own a smartphone, and over half of those people use it to surf the internet. If your website doesn’t read well on those devices, you’re losing a huge chunk of mobile users. 1. Before you plan your design for desktop or laptop screens, think about the user experience on a mobile device. Approximately 1 in every 7 people on earth use their mobile devices to access the internet. 2. Media queries are a feature in CSS3 that allow content to respond to different conditions on a particular device. 3. People interact with websites differently over a smartphone than they do over a desktop. 4. One of the hardest parts of responsive design is implementing a fluid grid. Instead of designing breakpoints for every possible viewport, you set a maximum layout size. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Final Thoughts
WordPress SEO Tutorial - The Definitive Guide A tutorial to higher rankings for WordPress sites This is the original WordPress SEO article since 2008, fully updated for 2022! WordPress is one of the best content management systems for SEO. Optimizing your site using the tactics and best practices outlined in this article will help you improve your rankings, gain more subscribers or sales, and have a better website. Because you should ingrain proper SEO in all aspects of your online marketing and PR, this guide covers quite a lot of ground! Before we start… This article assumes that you’re using our Yoast SEO plugin, which adds more features and SEO tools to WordPress. Read more: How much does Yoast SEO cost? Most of the principles will still apply if you’re using another SEO plugin. Table of contents Get your basic WordPress SEO right Want to learn how to build your own WordPress site? We have an epic article on that — including hours of video. Out of the box, WordPress is a pretty well-optimized content management system. 1.1. 1.1.2.
Lâchez prise sans perdre le contrôle grâce à l’unité CSS em Cela fait déjà bien longtemps qu’il est recommandé d’utiliser des unités relatives pour définir les tailles de texte, avec une préférence pour em plutôt que %. « A DAO Of Web Design » 1, écrit en 2000 par John Allsopp, est un article fondateur de l’intégration Web de qualité : C'est la nature du web d'être flexible, et il en va de notre rôle en tant que concepteurs et développeurs d'embrasser cette flexibilité et de produire des pages qui, en étant flexible, sont accessibles à tous. Faire des pages qui s'adaptent aux besoins d'un lecteur, dont la vue est plus qu'imparfaite, et qui souhaitent lire des pages avec une grande taille de police. Ces principes sont tellement essentiels qu’ils font parti des critères d’accessibilité du W3C 2 et de leur déclinaison française AccessiWeb 3, et assez naturellement des Bonnes Pratiques qualité d’Opquast 4. Les interfaces doivent être adaptées à des conditions de consultations variables Il existe pour cela plusieurs techniques, parfois complémentaires.
searchenginewatch.com/article/2258762/SEO-Keywords-Think-Conversions-Not-Rankings Search engine optimization (SEO) has changed dramatically over the years and will continue to change. SEO firms of all sizes face challenges with selling, delivering, and ultimately demonstrating results of services to end clients. The way we market, sell, deliver and report on SEO services has not kept pace and needs to catch up. If you ask marketers today what SEO is about they will likely still say things like, "ranking number one in Google". And, unfortunately, this is what they are looking for in the SEO sales and service delivery process. However, reporting on improvements in keyword position is pointless without applying keyword visits and conversion data. We know SEO is an ongoing, long-term process. This SEO process can't begin and end in a particular project phase or be completed after just one month of keyword research. Step 1: Selling the Concept You can do some initial keyword discovery in the sales process to demonstrate the keyword gap. Step 2: The Discovery Process