SEO does not guarantee usability March 3, 2010

Technical and content driven SEO together can create massive business’s and generate may online leads, but while chasing the dream its easy to miss oppurtunitys.

A lot of business’s especially new ones, think that all they have to do to be a success on the web is to throw up a site and pump money into SEO until they have their desired rankings. This is all fine and dandy and will probably generate quiet a bit of business but by ignoring usability and design you will be missing thousands upon thousands of pounds of business every month.

A sites usability is as important as its existence, when designing a site its so important to consider type of users your will be having (typical demographics, tech, non tech  etc) and then mix a little science and physiology our design to get the right reaction from your users. Where do you want your users to focus? How do i get them to look at the form? There are so many questions you should be asking when deciding the design for a site.

In the past changing the color or the wording slightly on a form has increased custom dramatically. If you run a site or are thinking of developing a site , I suggest you invest in some web usability and human computer interaction books and tweaks things on your site as if you were a  scientist and measure the results.

Leave a Reply