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5 Common Web Design Mistakes That May Hurt Your SEO in 2021


If you make some common web design mistakes, you may not be able to get a lot of visitors. The theme of your site, stunning images, and compelling copy will be of no use. As a matter of fact, your site will be far away from the first three pages of Google search for your desired keywords. So, if you want to avoid these problems, we suggest that you avoid some common web design mistakes that may have a negative impact on your SEO campaigns. Read on.

1. Poor Navigation

Some websites are so poorly designed that leave a new visitor confused. The visitors of your site should be able to know what your site is about at first glance. Apart from this, Google web crawlers should be able to understand your website. For this purpose, we suggest that you inter-link your important web pages.

2. Slower Page Loading

Things move at super-fast speeds in the world of the internet. People browse a lot of websites when they are online. They check out social media sites, send emails, and exchange messages on different online platforms.

If your website takes ages to load, it may turn off most of the visitors. They may click away never to come back again. Your visitors will stay on your site and come back again if the web pages load the moment they click on the link. According to experts, the page load time should be three seconds at most.

3. Non-Mobile-friendly website

Today, most web traffic comes from smartphones and other mobile devices. According to statistics, in the United States alone, there are more than 275 million users of smartphones. And most of them browse the internet on their mobile devices.

Statistics tell us that 70% of internet traffic comes from smartphones in the US. So, every website should be smartphone friendly, which means the website should be responsive and easy to navigate on smartphones.

4. Missing H1 tag

Search engine crawlers consider the H1 tag to find out what your website is about. In case of the absence of this tag, the ranking of your site will drop in major search engines. Apart from this, this tag makes the web content a lot more search engine friendly.

5. Large media and image files

The addition of media files and images to your site is a great idea as they make your content more appealing and easy to understand. Although you can add images to the articles on your site, make sure you do it wisely. The size of the media files and images should be reasonable. Large image files take a lot of time to load. As a result, they make your website much slower.

So, what you need to do is run the PageSpeed Insights test before you take the next move.

Long story short, we suggest that you avoid these common web design mistakes if don't want to hurt your search engine rankings.



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