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Why Usability Is Important To SEO
Filed under: Search Engine Optimisation Advice by Daniel Taylor on November 6th, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
Usability is quite simply ensuring that your website easy and intuitive for all your website visitors. When considering the implication of usability on SEO it can also prove prudent to consider whether search engine spiders will find your site usable. Obviously spiders, being software based visitors, will have different needs to human visitors but providing accessibility and usability for both visitors and spiders is possible. As with many aspects of creating an effective website it pays dividends to consider more than just the SEO implications of your actions.
What Is Usability
Usability should be evident throughout your website and it ensures that all of your visitors are able to use every aspect of your website from the navigation through to any dynamic elements or online applications that you also offer. Ensuring usability helps to also ensure that you enjoy good levels of conversions and that your site visitors are more inclined to navigate around the various pages of your website. Usability is vital to the success of your website.
Why Usability Is Important
Usability will ensure that visitors can open your pages and that they can view all of the content on those pages. It also ensures that visitors are able to quickly and easily gain access to the information or features that they are looking for. While usability is most commonly associated with more advanced websites such as ecommerce online shops, it should also be considered when creating less complex websites.
How Usability Impacts Your SEO
Realistically, usability does not directly impact your SEO efforts. Search engine spiders are unable to determine how user friendly your website features and functions are but you can also consider the spiders to be users of your website and so it is important that you offer the same level of usability to the bots as you do to your human visitors. In this respect, usability is extremely important to SEO because it ensures that the search engines can access, index, and rank all of your pages. It’s also reasonable to consider good quality content that is easy to navigate as being a part of your usability considerations.
Combining SEO With Conversions
Throughout the development and optimisation of a website, it is important to consider the implications of your actions on your visitors. When you undertake an SEO campaign it can become very easy to forget that your ultimate goal is to provide a user friendly experience to your visitors. Combining SEO and general best practices will help ensure the best possible results for your online business.
Usability And SEO
Usability and SEO go hand in hand when creating a website that will generate good levels of traffic and then convert the resulting visitors into paying customers. Whether you offer your own products or services or you serve affiliate links or other forms of advertising you must consider usability to be an important step in the development process and when you are optimising pages for SEO you should also consider the user friendliness of the content and other on page factors.
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Usability is very important for website owner and internet marketing; it means there is new and unique visitor and traffic coming to sites.
It means you site is doing the right job on the internet according to both search engine spider and human being.