Do You Design With SEO In Mind?

Actually.. not really, first there is a well balanced intuitive graphic design, seo is later.

Well it is essential to keep in mind the seo part during the design phase.Generally, the designer is more or less obsessive of giving a rich look to the website by way of adding images ,eye catchy design layouts to the contrast the seo gives criteria to content i.e text rather than images since from seo point of view website is rated based on the content.

Hence while designing a website the designer should consider the inputs of the seo with great relevance to the design.

Right after I received my Graphic Web Design Certificate I didn't know a thing about SEO or how to implement it. And now that I think about it, I believe I should have had to learn about it, but none of my classes even touched on the subject. Maybe b/c it was "Graphic" Web Design, but never-the-less you would of thought the teachers would of mentioned it and showed some minor details about it.

Since then I've worked on/for several e-commerce websites and have learned the importance of SEO. Now I definitely take in mind every aspect of what I know about SEO when making a web page or site. SEO is the backbone of an e-commerce website. If your not ranked on the first page(or more likely the top 5 on page one) of google you're missing a lot of sales.

The problem with designing for search engines is that you never finish the site. Lol... Each search engine has different criteria. Then they are always evolving. I wont say that a good designer doesnt think about a seo friendly design but only to a point.

But thats just my opinion.