Whats more important web design or SEO?

14 years ago

Both go hand in hand. On one side of the equation, if you spend all your time and money on making your site user friendly and none on SEO, your site will convert, but you will have very few customers to convert.

On the other side of the equation, if you spend all your time and money on SEO and none on design, you will get lots of visitors but they will exit your site as quick as they came.

You can't have one without the other and be successful. My recommendation is to spend your money on a kick-ass design and spend your time on SEO. There are a number of free ways to promote your site...they may be tedious, but if you're strapped for cash it's your best option.

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perryg

14 years ago

I agree entirely with the god father and to be honest web design these days although it can be time consuming is not expensive or complicated when using platforms like WordPress or similar so a good web design is not too hard to achieve.
This then allows you to spend time on SEO which from my experience is very time consuming but absolutely necessary if you want the site to succeed. good luck.

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Big Squid 14 years ago

It really depends on your marketing plan.

If you're not going to market your site through the search engines, then there's really no reason for SEO.
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  Originally Posted by Big Squid
  
  It really depends on your marketing plan.
  
  If you're not going to market your site through the search engines, then there's really no reason for SEO.
  
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CarloD.

13 years ago

Originally Posted by perryg

I agree entirely with the god father and to be honest web design these days although it can be time consuming is not expensive or complicated when using platforms like WordPress or similar so a good web design is not too hard to achieve.
This then allows you to spend time on SEO which from my experience is very time consuming but absolutely necessary if you want the site to succeed. good luck.

I disagree ... inexpensive? complicated? Wordpress is a blog platform... it comes down to the long lasting problem that EVERYONE THINKS they are a designer.

Choosing a theme has nothing to do with web design. it's a general users way of getting a website up with the lack of ability TO design (or code). Thats why there are themes.

The designers create the themes.

And design isn't cheap. Would you design a website for $100?

Sorry for calling this out... but come on.

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Mr.YeaBuddy

13 years ago

Originally Posted by The Godfather

Both go hand in hand. On one side of the equation, if you spend all your time and money on making your site user friendly and none on SEO, your site will convert, but you will have very few customers to convert.

On the other side of the equation, if you spend all your time and money on SEO and none on design, you will get lots of visitors but they will exit your site as quick as they came.

You can't have one without the other and be successful. My recommendation is to spend your money on a kick-ass design and spend your time on SEO. There are a number of free ways to promote your site...they may be tedious, but if you're strapped for cash it's your best option.

Kevin

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Gotta have site stickyness, an ugly run-of-the-mill site will not provide that. design keeps em' , seo brings em'

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iamjohnbrown

14 years ago

I sincerely believe that you need to focus on the web design. Your target audience is the common people and not the search engines only. But the thing is that there must be a delicate balance between the two. You must give equivalent amount of attention. Remember if the users don't find your website interesting, they are going to find an alternative. Make sure first you make users happy, then focus on search engines.

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Kevin Perry

14 years ago

Originally Posted by iamjohnbrown

I sincerely believe that you need to focus on the web design. Your target audience is the common people and not the search engines only. But the thing is that there must be a delicate balance between the two. You must give equivalent amount of attention. Remember if the users don't find your website interesting, they are going to find an alternative. Make sure first you make users happy, then focus on search engines.

I'm not sure what you mean my 'common people'. How do you typically find a new website? Either word-of-mouth or through search engines, right? Without attention to SEO, what's the point of making users happy if you don't have any? Unless you plan on using PPC to generate traffic, you need to work on web design and SEO simultaneously

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dannyogolo

13 years ago

Originally Posted by iamjohnbrown

I sincerely believe that you need to focus on the web design. Your target audience is the common people and not the search engines only. But the thing is that there must be a delicate balance between the two. You must give equivalent amount of attention. Remember if the users don't find your website interesting, they are going to find an alternative. Make sure first you make users happy, then focus on search engines.

Spot on.
Thats exactly from my mouth

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Shri Krishna Technologies

14 years ago

Both are equal important if your website is SEO friendly then it is easy to doing SEO so if you want good result from your website perfect design and good seo both are equal important.

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mathewhogard

14 years ago

I think both are equally important.if you are thinking about the marketing plan than try to focus on SEO part.

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kinetikit

14 years ago

Hi!

I am totally agree with mathewhogard comment. He truly said web design and SEO are equally important. Both go hand in hand.

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winsoar

14 years ago

I think it is SEO. You could have the best website in the world but without SEO you aren't going to get any visitors to it. That would be like building a shop in the middle of the dessert.

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Aare

14 years ago

both aspect are important, you need a good web design to make ur visitor confortable and browse all the pages for a minute or an hour. and in another side, u also need to be famous and easy to be found by someone who searching with the keyword of the niche that you're join in...

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jesus72knight

13 years ago

No way! Both are partners! If one is left out then don't even bother to make a site.

Excellent Design + Poor SEO = Site with no SE visibility (poor traffic)

Excellent SEO + Poor Design = Site that sucks! Bounce rate is enormous! People will leave in seconds.

See the difference?

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13 years ago

Originally Posted by jesus72knight

No way! Both are partners! If one is left out then don't even bother to make a site.

Excellent Design + Poor SEO = Site with no SE visibility (poor traffic)

Excellent SEO + Poor Design = Site that sucks! Bounce rate is enormous! People will leave in seconds.

See the difference?

I agree for the most part. SEO is important Even If you are only planning on PPC, escpecially for Google. SEO is one of Google's Landing Page Quality scoring criteria so it's must.

There really is no reason that you should have to sacrifice one for the other. Yeah I know, more graphics can mean less content. But you can make your relevant images SEO with relevant names, alt tags and captions. Non relavent images, name them a number with no tags and they get ignored increasing the overall landing page quality.

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millihill

13 years ago

Both are essential for a website.

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mesimoniv

13 years ago

Get a design that is "good enough" such as a free wordpress theme or HTML / CSS template.

Next get traffic via SEO. Once you have traffic and potentially income; tweak the design for improvements.

Both are important so just strive for improvement in each area. Work on SEO one day, design the next.

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f4mu5

13 years ago

this right here sounds like the key to success. Just one step at a time

Originally Posted by mesimoniv

Get a design that is "good enough" such as a free wordpress theme or HTML / CSS template.

Next get traffic via SEO. Once you have traffic and potentially income; tweak the design for improvements.

Both are important so just strive for improvement in each area. Work on SEO one day, design the next.

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13 years ago

This definition separates Web design from web programming, emphasizing the functional features of a web site, as well as positioning web design as a kind of graphic design.The process of designing web pages, web sites, web applications or multimedia for the Web may utilize multiple disciplines, such as animation, authoring, communication design, corporate identity, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information architecture, interaction design, marketing, photography, search engine optimization and typography.

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rahulbatra

13 years ago

Only web design does not work you have to do SEO also.

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CatalinIcs

13 years ago

I think the webdesign and SEO must be done together. With a good plan in mind, it's easy to make a site SEO friendly. However, the designer must know how to put the important elements in the page to obtain maximum of advantage in search engines.

The website content is essential too.

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JRGautreaux

13 years ago

I always design websites based on the content that will be put on them. Once I know the content that will be going on the pages, I optimize the pages for "On Page SEO" as much as I can.

From the content I can also research and figure out which keywords to target and work that again into the overall SEO campaign for the site.

Regarding site design, I tend to make it look as professional as possible given the audience the website and content is intended for. Most importantly is the you want to present the content in a way that is readable and looks the best for the person reading your site.

I tend to stay away from the fancier web items like flash and animated gifs etc. I like to create clean looking sites that are easy to navigate.

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Austin Rose 13 years ago

Both web design and SEO go hand in hand and are equally important, your design should have your user in mind and not be too complicated.

The aspects of the design should incorporate SEO techniques as it is being built.

A good clean design will be easy for the search engines to index with good and relevant content. Ultimately as others have said, they should work together.
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Sam1985

13 years ago

I think if you have a working website then along with the website you should work more as compare to website in SEO because without work on SEO you can not get traffic to your website. So without SEO you can not get good traffic for your website. So here SEO is much important than website.

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Cre8ive

13 years ago

Hi Bob,
Basicly it depends on what marketing approach you have selected and what kind of website and customers you target.

As it is mentioned earlier in the thread, usually it goes hand in hand. Traffic has no value, if it doesnt convert to the action you want them to perform.

So one really doesnt go without the other.. Normally.

But for affiliate marketing many go for PPC traffic with for instance adwords, or as part of a network or email marketing where SEO is not even used in any way.

So it really does depend on what product you have and what action you want your website visitors to perform and your overall marketing strategy

But a rule of thumb would usually be...

Get the product.
Specify the target.
Create a high converting website for that target group
Get traffic.
Analyse traffic and conversions,
Possible A/B splittestings, to better conversions on website.

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infoman66 13 years ago

When you think about it, a good designer needs to follow most of the things that relate to on page optimization ...

Beginning in the page title, meta description tag, heading (h1) and subheadings (h2, h3 ...), content, content emphasis (strong, em), describe the elements (alt, title) structure of the site (2 to 3 clicks) and navigation (link anchors in the text), the speed of response pages, etc, etc ...
I think many people misunderstand what it means to be a web designer ...
Web designer is not only graphical solution of the page ...

I would say that almost everything that is comfortable to search engines, comfortable and to the visitors ...
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promo_guy

13 years ago

SEO should be part of each page you create (in my opinion) unless you're doing an ad swap or something and sending visitors to your squeeze page through email marketing. If this page is only up for a short time (during the swap), or any such similar situations, then you probably don't have to bother with SEO.

But, even if you're advertising (Adwords, banner advertising, etc.) and your site/page will be online for any period of time, then doing SEO is not only recommended but can be done so quickly that there's no excuse not to add on-page SEO.

Web design, even if it's "simple", should be considered SVO - Site Visitor Optimization lol. Depending on what you're trying to achieve, graphics and layout can play a huge role in achieving your goals.

Remember, web design isn't always about photoshop and beautiful images, it could be text/colors/layout etc.

I say, first define what you want your visitor to do. Then, as you create your page, create the graphics/layout to "funnel" them to your target (optin, sale, affiliate link, etc). Meanwhile, add on-page SEO since it's so dang easy and is good practice!

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ShellServe

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bobmichaels

Just wondering your thoughts on what is more important, web desin or SEO? what should i spend most of my time on? My thought is that a very good website with no ranking is not much good, but a lousy website that ranks on the first page of google is better. So maybe, we all should throw up a so / so website and work on SEO?

In my opinion, webdesign is very easy. can be totally outsourced. Dont waste your time on designing very much. Some people willing to do miracle only for $5. SEO in other hand must be consistent and not a set and forget kind of work. SO, I vote for SEO

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fbhc

13 years ago

When you design a website and start with SEO in mind, it will be much easier in the long run. You will have to be more specific about SEO because there are many arenas of the SEO World. Both are important. Depending on your goals, you might be wasting your time if your thinking of only choosing one over the other.

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MichaelParsons

13 years ago

Originally Posted by fbhc

When you design a website and start with SEO in mind, it will be much easier in the long run. You will have to be more specific about SEO because there are many arenas of the SEO World. Both are important. Depending on your goals, you might be wasting your time if your thinking of only choosing one over the other.

Well said, fbhc! SEO is a part of website design when you understand that site design is a little more than a free HTML template and SEO is more than synonyms for your topic.

The coolest looking website is pointless if it does not work. The best SEO will deliver 'hits' but not 'visits'. Where I come from, hits bounce, visits do not. 100% bounce rate is OK if your trying to get a visitor to an affiliate offer or sales page, but not if you'd like them to see your wicked cool site.

Web Design and SEO are like twins separated at birth...

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TechGuy1

13 years ago

Both are imperative for a website.Both SEO and designing skills bring your site to the world. We offer low budget SEO and designing packages.

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mankis

13 years ago

Just wish to add. If you have best design you can immediately have lots of traffic because you can submit your site to popular sites that recognize and award good design and inovation.

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copypilot

13 years ago

SEO in most cases should not be a higher priority than site design and the general value you give to people, in essence SEO is all backlinks. Except for a few things to watch out for like what platforms to build your site on and generally how it all works, eventually content is going to drive the site. No matter what trick you find out there are smarter people working at search engine companies to see to it that everyone plays a fair game, and that game is giving value to people. No trick is going to top it.

SEO can be good to fine tune things and more importantly to avoid some dangerous pitfalls(like Googles Irregular Content Filter) so I highly suggest you learn as much as you can but not before you create good content to be driven by your SEO marketing plan.

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Jager

12 years ago

The below is the best comment here.

Beyond the overly-repeated statement that SEO and web design are both important, web design is obviously more so. Despite what some are writing, SEO is not the only way to market your site. But guaranteed people will just leave your site if it's designed badly.

That's not to say more complicated or flashy design; in fact, the best sites are simple. Bad web design = complicated & flashy. So by bad design I'm assuming you mean something overly-complicated, or a site with crappy HTML tables or something along those lines.

Ultimately, SEO can be important but it depends on the strategy your using. Huge sites like Twitter/Myspace/Digg/Facebook/Youtube and many more didn't even bother with SEO and their marketing strategies didn't use it. Can you imagine if any of those sites' design was horrible?(You won't need much imagination in Myspace's case).

It doesn't really work the other way. I don't know anybody who had horrible design yet compensated with SEO. SEO naturally comes through creating a great site, and you can improve it with techniques and such but ultimately the best SEO is just having a quality site. So if you have great design and use social media and word of mouth marketing, SEO may just come on its own.

Originally Posted by copypilot

SEO in most cases should not be a higher priority than site design and the general value you give to people, in essence SEO is all backlinks. Except for a few things to watch out for like what platforms to build your site on and generally how it all works, eventually content is going to drive the site. No matter what trick you find out there are smarter people working at search engine companies to see to it that everyone plays a fair game, and that game is giving value to people. No trick is going to top it.

SEO can be good to fine tune things and more importantly to avoid some dangerous pitfalls(like Googles Irregular Content Filter) so I highly suggest you learn as much as you can but not before you create good content to be driven by your SEO marketing plan.

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muse88

13 years ago

Here's a simple answer:

SEO provides the internet marketing - rakes in the visitors
web design keeps them on your site.

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IndigoJack

13 years ago

SEO is most important because without that no one will visit your excellently designed website.

Excellent design does not necessarily mean that people take an intake of breath upon viewing it - no site is that amazing.

Ok apart from www.jimcarrey.com

Majority of websites are far from that.

Your site has to work. Sounds simplistic but that is its primary function. So it does not have to do everything except make the tea, if all web visitors want to do is read your latest thoughts on tea production.

Some of the hugest sites are incredibly simple in design terms.

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mankis

13 years ago

Originally Posted by IndigoJack

SEO is most important because without that no one will visit your excellently designed website.

Excellent design does not necessarily mean that people take an intake of breath upon viewing it - no site is that amazing.

Ok apart from www.jimcarrey.com

Majority of websites are far from that.

Your site has to work. Sounds simplistic but that is its primary function. So it does not have to do everything except make the tea, if all web visitors want to do is read your latest thoughts on tea production.

Some of the hugest sites are incredibly simple in design terms.

WoW! I haven't seen this site before, although i LOVE Jim Carrey. WoW! My DREAM is to make site like this, site for artists of all kind. And I'm good at it!
Recently I made one site for one painter, and that one week when it was submited at theFwa, and now from other sites for web awards, I noticed that is good to have breath taking site. You get lots of traffic immediately, and people will bookmark you, tweet you, spread the word etc.

Ofcourse it's important to have good SEO and good design. But sometimes it also depend on content. If you are some unknown artist (this is my field, that is why I compare with artists, there are also other examples) than is much important to invest in good design than in SEO. But that design has to be REALLY good.

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highcountry 13 years ago

Wow... I must assume you people who are raving about jimcarey.com must have your tongue firmly planted in cheek. I waited about 30 seconds for the worm, or whatever it is to do something, and bolted... even knowing it was being raved about.

There is absolutely no reason to be so lazy as to design a website without focusing on both design and SEO. None.

Don't touch your mouse until you have already planned how the two will interact to produce a successful website. Doesn't matter if you/your client are willing to spend money to market the site... blowing off free qualified traffic is insanity.

Design decisions are made after researching the target audience. Organic optimization is done after investigating what phrases are being used by that same group to find the product/service offered by your/your client's website.

One universal... websites are not grocery stores. The idea of forcing a potential customer to walk by aisles and aisles of stuff to get where they want to go is lunacy in web design. Get the money as fast as you can, and go on to the next customer. As cold as that sounds, that is just plain good business. Excellent customer service after the sale will lead to a whole new group of free customers.
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swtsubmit

13 years ago

Everything is important, you should focus on everything. If you're first on google, and visitors experiance on your page is not good, site is useless, and vice versa..

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mankis

13 years ago

I don't like to wait that something loads too. I also make sites without preloader. But the point is, everybody talks about sites like this. Indigojack told here, I will tell somwhere else... free traffic, just because the site is unusual and inovative.

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highcountry 13 years ago

So do it "after" you have their attention, not before. Many reports support the fact that 90%+ won't wait for a page like jimcarey.com to load.
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- Blogmudgeon 13 years ago
  
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  So do it "after" you have their attention, not before. Many reports support the fact that 90%+ won't wait for a page like jimcarey.com to load.
  
  Yes, and it's a proven fact that 71.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot...
  
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  Just trying to help, but you just keep on with whatever it is you're trying to do, sonny.
  
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pelletmill

13 years ago

in my opionion, SEO and web design are both important to search engine. web design can bring excellent experience to visitor and SEO can improve your website splendidness live.

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13 years ago

The higher a website ranks on the search results, higher the chances of an online user visiting the website. Since online users don't like to plough through multiple pages of search results, the position of the website in the search results is an import factor in determining the traffic on the website.

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13 years ago

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diyakapoor

13 years ago

SEO is important to bring visitors to your website and a good web design is required to bring your visitors back to website, means to increase revisits. Always give an attractive design to your website, make your website fully user friendly as well as seo friendly. After that you need continues SEO work to increase visitors on website.

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homemodifications

13 years ago

So,both are important....and both go hand in hand.On one side of the equation, if you spend all your time and money on making your site user friendly and none on SEO, your site will convert, but you will have very few customers to convert.

On the other side of the equation, if you spend all your time and money on SEO and none on design, you will get lots of visitors but they will exit your site as quick as they came.

You can't have one without the other and be successful. My recommendation is to spend your money on a kick-ass design and spend your time on SEO.

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burnbebe 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Big Squid

It really depends on your marketing plan.

If you're not going to market your site through the search engines, then there's really no reason for SEO.

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

You have GOT to be joking...

Or being sarcastic But really if you have a site that you don't need to market then no reason for SEO. For example, help sites for a product, or private forums.
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  RhysLucas 13 years ago
  
  Websites need to be dynamic, lean and pliable in order to incorporate changes at the side wide level (much like widgets or modules) as well as have the ability to customize each of the elements that require fine-tuning independent from those widgets (which means solution by design is more than just a motto
  
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  seoindia123 13 years ago
  
  User friendly and SEO friendly website is quite important to get user and search engine rank.
  
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  bradlean 13 years ago
  
  I hope you won't bother guys of what I said.
  
  Anyway for me both of them really matters. Let's just say if you have a high targeted traffic to your site but your design it's kinda simple or not to attractive, You're losing all your chances in making money.
  
  Well, you can entice someone like a newbie but when it comes to an expert well, they just have to hit the close button at the upper right hand corner.
  
  I guess both of them really works. A lot of gurus right now or some internet marketing expert didn't even know how to set-up - I mean some. But all they did is to pay someone do the extra effort. Because they also have deep pockets and they really can afford.
  
  I think you should never lose hope, coz there are lots of pre define blogs all for free and there is nothing to worry about. Try to search free wordpress template or themes. Just for sure you know where you put your optin page or your squeeze page. That way you can capture the email of your visitors and contact them in the future.
  
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  tushargarg 13 years ago
  
  It really depends on your goals. If you are a mass market product that sells on good deals and bargains, then obviously you need to focus on SEO. You may still want to get a user friendly and clean website that can engage customers without any stress. However, if you are a niche/ premium service provider or a boutique agency, you need to have a great looking website. Thats because the kind of people you target will mostly not look for you on search engines, but will seek you out through design galleries, blogs etc.
  Ever notice how Google search only throws up very mass looking websites on its first 10 pages? You get the idea!
  
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  While both are equally important, starting out with a so-so design is not terminal. If they don't like what they see, your early visitors are not going to make a mental note to not return.
  
  I would recommend that you get your site structure fleshed out, then put your best shot together and get the site published as soon as possible. Do the basics with on-page SEO - keywords and titles. It's very important to get the structure right. If you change the structure later - page names, keywords, titles etc. - the search engine indexing will be all awry for a while and your off-page SEO work might not be as effective.
  
  Once you have your site up you can start your off-site SEO work. While you're hammering away with this you can go back to your site to work on the design.
  
  It's a parallel effort. You just need to start getting visitors ASAP.
  
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ColdFire123

13 years ago

For me both are important.

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karynmonk 13 years ago

I think this is a very cool goal. SEO can be easy if you remember some of the basics of optimizing a page, or you can say we should create a website SEO friendly.Though we all want to make a design of the site and its web site, all of us can not, if we do not understand the different factors, or simply do not have the time or do not have the necessary expertise, the use of high-design company website.
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smakioday 13 years ago

Web design is more important in terms of overal experience. Please remember SEO is the path that leads more people to your site. You have to start off with great content to begin with or it is just no good. At the end of the day most people had no idea of SEO and went about just building what they love. Remember that.
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mint24 13 years ago

Your Web design for once site should be related to the niche that a business have, on the other hand SEO also promoting a business using a keywords that best describe the niche of the business towards a site. I guess they go hand and hand.
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EximITS 13 years ago

both are important but you should spend more time and money in SEO as a basic website can get a good traffic by SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION but a really good website with proper SEO will not attract traffic at all
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ClicProject 12 years ago

Whats more important web design or SEO?

That is like asking: "Whats more important, arms or legs?".
It is futile trying to simplify complex problems into simple A/B choices.
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web.tech

13 years ago

That will depends on clients decision. The client like to concentrate only design, there is Designer is important. The Client like to Marketing the website then SEO important. Otherwise Designer and SEO is unavoidable part of Internet marketing.

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varun089

13 years ago

If you have a good seo you may improve ur website with good design

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johanwhite

13 years ago

I think that both are the two sides of a coin. If you only focus on web design of your website and do nothing on SEO, then your website looks good and user-friendly but you have few customers or users to use it. On the other side if you spend your time and money on only SEO then you can get more customers and users to use your website. But still I should say that SEO is nowadays the most required thing for every website to become famous and get success.

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nuwav

13 years ago

The usability and the design of the site is more important than SEO. You need to get the foundation right, this would require testing and tweaking the site.

Even if your site is ranked in the top ten of Google and is getting alot of traffic.. but your site is not user friendly, full of bugs or its not saying the rignt message to drawn customers in, you won't get alot of sales or leads.

You would need to test what is working on your site and change whats not working.

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stageboss12

13 years ago

Both are important, if you have good design then you will attract more customer and SEO adds a advantage and you get high rank in search engine

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Khalid Abdullah

13 years ago

websign is for make visitors feel confort in our blog.

seo fot gwt thousand visitors from search engine.

so that's 2 important things ! :-)

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rypher21

13 years ago

combination of both would give much better results

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LosingMyHair

13 years ago

SEO is more for the SEs. Design is more for humans. However, I tend to focus on design first and SEO last. Because I like to strive for quality. You usually make more money when you focus on both.

Start with SEO and then go back and spruce up the design... or do the opposite (like me), but doing things the opposite way my come back to haunt you if you get burned out really easily.

Having said all of that. If I had to choose between one or the other... I'd choose SEO. Time and time again, I've watched people buy things from web sites with horrible designs, copy, etc.

But don't we all do the same in real life. Sure the Porsche dealership is nice and shiny (can eat off the mens' bathroom floor... directly under the stall), but the dank, moldy used car dealership is more affordable.

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babpavel16

13 years ago

If you need only traffic on your website, then it may be loose design there with high ranking on search. But this will not give you business or revenue.
For the best performance you need both up to the best level. First create your website user friendly and good looking so someone should stay on your website. Then do best SEO for that.
You have to spend time for both activities.

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Will P

13 years ago

I prefer both but if I had to hit the nail on the head I would certainly say SEO. My best earning site that I have has what most would call the crappiest design out there yet it easily surpasses all my other sites in terms of profit. I'm actually afraid to mess with the design as it might ruin the site LOL.

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13 years ago

Hi,
Website design and SEO are like two eyes Why am i saying this because when a website is being renked this is in SEO design also plays important role if site has nice design and laking in SEo then its rank is lowered and if it has excellent SEO and poor design then user will not view it SEO and Design are treated as a two eyes we cant give priority in that

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carlo_sim

13 years ago

Hi,

I belive that both of them are important =) You need a decent design for your website and use SEO as your traffic source. =)

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marketing123

13 years ago

Actually both are important, it's just which will you do on the first place. So for me, I really focus on my website first because what is the use of having more traffic but no response from them due to unorganized or no quality website that you have right? So after creating great website you now focus your attention to SEO because this could really help you like in your making money online or any promotional purposes. So it's like the other way around what's the use of having great web design but no visitors coming and signing up with the site? So that's the idea there.

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jaxspotmedia

13 years ago

both are important and it goes hand-in-hand.

a) you can spend all the time in the world to make a pretty web design and not focus on seo = people's can't find your site
b) do not spend time on web design but spend time on seo = people find your site but get put off with your website due to its lack of navigation (or whatever it is that may not appease to them in terms of search and functionality)
c) why not spend time on web design & seo so users can find you on search engines, etc. and when they are on your website, they won't get lost and can find what they want.. and they are converted/hooked on to your site

you need to spend time in both web design and seo. information architecture has to be emphasized on the web design process for functionality, ease of navigation, etc. and you also have to do seo so your site can be found by your future visitors, etc.

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abegailbrown

13 years ago

Originally Posted by jaxspotmedia

both are important and it goes hand-in-hand.

a) you can spend all the time in the world to make a pretty web design and not focus on seo = people's can't find your site
b) do not spend time on web design but spend time on seo = people find your site but get put off with your website due to its lack of navigation (or whatever it is that may not appease to them in terms of search and functionality)
c) why not spend time on web design & seo so users can find you on search engines, etc. and when they are on your website, they won't get lost and can find what they want.. and they are converted/hooked on to your site

you need to spend time in both web design and seo. information architecture has to be emphasized on the web design process for functionality, ease of navigation, etc. and you also have to do seo so your site can be found by your future visitors, etc.

True. I agree. Both are important. If you have great web design, viewers will be attracted and visit your site, and if you also do SEO, your site will be easily found when internet users search keywords that fit in your niche. You may even get on top of the list in search engines.

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Azlan

13 years ago

From my experience, first, I would say that we have excellent content and then the design. But it really the same important, content and design.

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Valan

13 years ago

People say things like:

Excellent Design + Poor SEO = Site with no SE visibility (poor traffic)

Excellent SEO + Poor Design = Site that sucks! Bounce rate is enormous! People will leave in seconds.

And to some extent it is true -- but there are types of web sites which dont really need a great web design. And so in a broader aspect, SEO > Design.

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patadeperro

13 years ago

SEO hands down, who cares if you have the greatest website on earth if nobody visits it? on the otherside who cares if a site is super ugly but is getting a ton of traffic? traffic is equal to money.

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emma11

13 years ago

Excellent sharing friend, Both has their own importance. Both are different thing. Don't compare them. SEO is useful for a good ranking, but a good ranking you must have a attractive web site. So both are best on their places.
Thanks for sharing this.

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ramona_livegood

13 years ago

I would always take the design of any site in terms of priorities:
(btw, sorry to join in on the discussion so late)

Everytime I build a new site, I divide the process into stages/phases:

Among those list of phases, Design comes first! What is attractive to the eye will generally bring in repeat customers/visitors, even if they are hoping for better content.

However, if I go to a site, and the design is bad, I would never want to go back, and I'm skeptical of whether it is a real site or one of those boxed solutions with no extensibility.

So, in this case, I would definitely put Design first, and then SEO.

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pethanks

13 years ago

I think both are important. If you have a good web design and you do SEO also then I am sure you will get the best result.

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albasnians 13 years ago

Good usability, with a good content, aimed at strengthening the natural bonds. The benefits of quality traffic from popular sources far outweigh those of chasing the latest trend of playing with text links.
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jackendonald

13 years ago

There seems to be a myth around this problem, and many blog or web site owners seem to believe that search engine optimization is a kind of black magic that turns base metal into gold, and what kind of web content into your content an instant success. Many of us have thought at some point SEO, to some extent. In this article I will contradict this myth shows that SEO is part of a larger puzzle, there are other things you should focus on first. I want to prove that when it comes to creating a great site for what should be done in a specific order or randomly. Finally refer to the sources, if I find I'll show you that there are many good ways, reliable and ready to learn SEO and Development Web site.

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ThomScott

13 years ago

Hmmmm ... What's more important? That a guy or gal is a physical knockout or that when they open their mouth they have a pleasing personality and at least a voice that doesn't grate on you? ;-) There's a balance there between traffic and conversion.

Traffic without conversion is useless. And a great site that converts, but no one knows about, is equally useless.

That's my opinion anyway.

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johnclave123

13 years ago

yes for sure seo is the best and best thing to work with if you know both things then it will be greate you can create your own website and also highlight that website to the top rank in the google page

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Bulk Proxy

13 years ago

I think both are equally important. Good design help your site is beauty and easy to popular, and do SEO help your site quickly public and famous. With good design and good SEO, your website will be famous and have high traffic.

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xavierhibbins

13 years ago

i think coding of site while developing it and classes defined by css in dreamweaver..

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gordi555

13 years ago

They are both equally important. You need SEO to get people there and you also need design to make use of them once they arrive!

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pipeten

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bobmichaels

Just wondering your thoughts on what is more important, web desin or SEO? what should i spend most of my time on? My thought is that a very good website with no ranking is not much good, but a lousy website that ranks on the first page of google is better. So maybe, we all should throw up a so / so website and work on SEO?

It depends on your marketing strategy. If you are planning on gaining visitors through search engines then SEO will need a lot of focus. If you are going to gain your visitors through advertising or other means then you can spend a bit more time concentrating on the design.

If you have oodles of time then do both!

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victoriakeenato

13 years ago

I totally agree with the comment mathewhogard. He really said web design and SEO are equally important. The two go hand in hand.

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davidtakson

13 years ago

Both are equally important if your site is SEO friendly so it is easy to do SEO, so if you want good results from your perfect website design and good SEO are both equally important.

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alfredmanor12

13 years ago

Both are equally important, if your site is SEO friendly, easy to do SEO, so if you want good results in the design of complete websites and good SEO, both are equally important.

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nsdoi

13 years ago

Hello...........

Both the SEO and Web designing are equally important, you can't separate these things....

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adelainewatson

13 years ago

Web designing and SEO are important because without it there will be no presence of your business. These days everything is done via internet. Many businesses are done online and people sell their products online through their website. Thus, for these, web designing and SEO are the most important factors to be considered. To increase the business and we can say to have any sort of business in today's world, we need a website and web presence. This could be done with the help of web designing and SEO. To increase sales, the owner of the website can take several approaches like pay per click, Google Ad words, traffic exchange etc. SEO web pages are made by the people to make exceptionally great profit.

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alysemackie

13 years ago

For me web design and SEO should go hand in hand. They are both very important.

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signity2

13 years ago

aboth go side by side as seo is for user to approach and design to attract and loading of website

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exceedmedia

13 years ago

From experience, we have found that a well designed site with decent content gets better conversions that a pure SEO optimised site by far. If your designer or them is good, the two should work hand in hand. That is why when we can we use Joomla as the CMS paltform as this enables us to have the best of both worlds and in terms of CMS, gives far more flexibility than Wordpress ever can

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drewellis082

13 years ago

I agree completely with the god father and to be dependable web design these days although it can be time depleting is not valuable or elaborated when employing platforms like WordPress or same so a beneficial web design is not too hard to achieve.

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webexpert00

13 years ago

Both are important. As you need a good web design to represent your information or product. And you need a good SEO service to reach customers/clients.

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interspire

13 years ago

They are both as important as each other.

If you are good at SEO you should at least know how to design a website for user ability.

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nagendrababucbs

13 years ago

The Web design important part for Content, coding and SEO. The every page of the content is Unique one. The Coding using the HTML languages. The SEO expansion for Search Engine Optimization. The SEO have two types, there are onpage SEO and Off page SEO.

On page*seo*considered on title ag,content,Meta keywords and description,h1,h2,h3 tags etc. Off page*seo*is indirectly increase the traffic by using blog commenting, forum posting, Article submission, Directory submission and paid submissions etc

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andrej

13 years ago

In my opinion, SEO is more important. Then when you get a good ranking, you can improve the web design of your site, as this is important, too. However, a good looking site with no traffic is nothing.

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addison.agnote

13 years ago

I believe that both are important aspect in a website.

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DebB

13 years ago

Offcourse both of them are important, how could you ask such a question??

Ok answer me: should I eat food OR drink water to stay alive?

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addison.agnote 13 years ago

Originally Posted by DebB

Offcourse both of them are important, how could you ask such a question??

Ok answer me: should I eat food OR drink water to stay alive?

Haha great comparison Debb!
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iuditg

13 years ago

I would say both of them.

Further most, If don't rely on search engine for your sales or traffic, you can purely focus on design but if you need sales or traffic via search engine then you have to take care of SEO as well while you work on your designs.

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13 years ago

Word Press can help you create very nice websites and you can install the All-in-One SEO package plugin to help you with optimization.

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skyacme

13 years ago

yea, the bottom line is............... both are equal important.

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purpleswizzleswirl

13 years ago

Both are important. SEO to be discovered. Design for branding and delivering your message.

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hitmobi

13 years ago

Which is more important- breathing or eating?

Both can make or break the site.

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13 years ago

I think both are equally important

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cyberoptik

13 years ago

Piggybacking on what others have said, having been building websites for 10 years.. a *good* web designer knows they're both important. When building your site there are standard seo elements that should be included, along with general design rules to make sure your site loads quick, etc.

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Batman88

13 years ago

Both are important, if you have good design then you will attract more customer and SEO adds a advantage and you get high rank in search engine

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bob100

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Bobmichaels

Just wondering your thoughts on what is more important, web desin or SEO? what should i spend most of my time on? My thought is that a very good website with no ranking is not much good, but a lousy website that ranks on the first page of google is better. So maybe, we all should throw up a so / so website and work on SEO?

Why not just do both as both are pretty easy unless your are talking about off site SEO. That gets harder as it involves getting links from other sites. Doing all the on site SEO is pretty easy so why not just do both?

If you are doing something like an adsense site then great looking design is not always your friend. I have a few sites that get huge click through rates because the bright blue links on the adsense ads are the boldest thing on the site. Everything else is a shade of gray literally! The design itself does not exactly suck but it is very plain looking. 50 to 75% click through rate rocks though.

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Mark_Babcock

13 years ago

Short answer - BOTH (and other things as well).

If your intent is to drive organic traffic - you can't have one without the other. You need SEO to bring the traffic and good "design" to engage your audience.

But.....

There's a lot more to it than just SEO and design.

However, without knowing what the objectives are for the site/page, it's difficult to say what else you need to focus on. There are a lot of moving pieces that need to be considered - not the least of which is who are you targeting, what are you offering and what do you want do you want them to do?

Before you can begin to do SEO or build an effective website that converts, you've got to answer those questions (and several others depending on the answers to those).

That may not have been the answer you were looking for, but really - before you ask whether or not SEO or Design is more important, you need to define your target and objectives first.

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Rocky07

13 years ago

i thnink BOTH!

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swebsitedesign

13 years ago

both the web design and seo go side by side
to have na impressive and high ranking site we require both

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K Meier

13 years ago

That's a strange question, since it's not something you can compare.

A nice design makes your visitors feel comfortable, easy on their eyes, professional impression.

While SEO has the only purpose to rank high in google.

It's like asking, what's more important, a good car or a good car insurance.

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maaria143

13 years ago

I would like to say both have their own importance and value.

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puedall

13 years ago

Both, undoubted...

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12 years ago

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vCr8

12 years ago

IMHO, both are equally important... you can create a very attractive and fast loading site but without SEO, how can you drive traffic to your site? consequently... with SEO you can easily drive peoeple to your site.. but with a very unattractive site how can you keep people coming back to your site?

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Pixon

12 years ago

Both are important. A web design plays a key role in creating functional and attractive websites to communicate your business better to the world around you. But SEO is also one of the most effective forms of publicity.but refers to the science and art of making your website, or pages attractive and high in traffic until it crawls to the top of the Google search results pages.

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fileppoa

12 years ago

I think both are very essential for your web page. Without the eye-catching web development,SEO doesn't perform. SEO would become efficient while a web development is being very eye-catching and simple to use. Both are very useful for development of your company. Web style is what that performs to provide a better look to your experience on web indicates performs to make a identification 'website' for company and the next phase is to tell the individuals about solutions over web and process is done by promotion for solutions . SEO provides solutions in promotion for company web page over look for website optimization as well allows in develop product identification for web page .

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Azlan

12 years ago

Both things is essentials in terms of marketing. Design make your client stay to your page, SEO is a way to be notice or be known.

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Preeti Goyal

12 years ago

Both go parallel ,as website should have fresh content and proper links, and SEO and SMO team to optimize it.You can hire a company for that a good one i know is that MP09digital.com which will give you proper
Web Solution ( Internet Marketing + Website Design )

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joyer10

12 years ago

They both have its own importance in the field of IT.

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12 years ago

Hey,

More important then SEO, WEB DESIGN Should be your overall goal
or IDEA. Really take sometime to think about your idea & then
within time implement.

As time moves along you could implement SEO & the Web Design...

Hope this advise helps you.

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12 years ago

I can't able to differentiate SEO and Webdesign. It likes a two eyes, our two hands, legs etc. Both are more important to our website.

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interserverx

12 years ago

Both are Equal

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12 years ago

Both are equally important.

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BOBTYLOR

12 years ago

Both are equivalent essential if your web page is SEO helpful then it is simple to doing SEO so if you want excellent outcome from your web page ideal style and excellent seo both are equivalent essential.

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maxaurelius

11 years ago

Both.

SEO = Lets google know what your site is about
Design = Lets google know if people like staying on your site

Your design is half the reason why people stay on your site or like coming to your site, because if the design is jacked up on a site, I rather find another site I enjoy being on then a site with amazing information, but looks like crap.

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IMnetrepreneur

11 years ago

I say both.

When you have a crappy design.. visitors will not like what they see.. it's difficult and annoying to navigate around your site so they leave right away.

As for SEO, you will need it to improve you site rankings.

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mikeye

11 years ago

Both are important, but I'll focus more on SEO. The first thing is to get a website up and running properly. Then focus on SEO to improve its ranking. Once it ranks well and profits, you may go back to improve the design. They're both ongoing work and can be improved together as we go.

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theknowledgeacademy

11 years ago

In our opinion both - but for different reasons. One doesnt work without the other. But remember - off page seo is 80%

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SandstormDigital

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Bobmichaels

Just wondering your thoughts on what is more important, web desin or SEO? what should i spend most of my time on? My thought is that a very good website with no ranking is not much good, but a lousy website that ranks on the first page of google is better. So maybe, we all should throw up a so / so website and work on SEO?

No reason why you shouldn't focus on both. Invest in an open source cms (e.g. drupal, Joomla or even WP) and you can have both covered.

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markmatthews

11 years ago

In my perspective. Both should go together and that both are important.

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mini555

11 years ago

Both are equal important if your website is SEO friendly then it is easy to doing SEO so if you want good result from your website perfect design and good seo both are equal important.