: Is SEO the most important part on making a website good? Can SEO be the only major part in making a website good? Cmon there are lots of facts, design, functionality, user friendly, efficient.

@YK1175434

No it's not, but If you try to sell something on the web, SEO is the most important part!!!

Nowdays even if you have super efficent server and well designed, with great functionality and user friendlysness, efficient website, but you do not appear in 1st Google page, you won't get any orders!!!

This said, it's absolutely true that it's easier to do SEO on well designed, with great functionality and user friendlysness, efficient, full of rich interesting contents websites rather than doing SEO on poorly designed, slow, poor contents, websites.

So a well designed webiste can be considered a necessary start conditon for good SEO, but not sufficient. You might still find poor designed webistes that ranks higher that your well designed website on Google and they will sell more than your website.

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@Hamaas447

SEO does not 'make a website good', per se.

SEO can help a good website get better exposure via search engines, obviously. But a 'bad' website can equally benefit from SEO.

However, SEO is improved by many of the techniques that feature in good websites: appropriate, valid semantic markup, good content, accessibility, etc.

So good design improves SEO, but SEO doesn't necessarily improve the website.

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@Karen161

A good website has, IMHO:


Good content
Good accessibility
Good design
Good usability


Make site findable is important, but making visitors like a site after find it depends on other things.

On page SEO basically depends on 2 of four factors I listed (content and accessibility), plus semantic markup, plus friendly URLs. Except content, other points are technical.

Content, usability and design are the factors that make your site interesting and pleasant. Without them, your site can be find, but can't achieve goals or help out people, thus making it a bad website.

So, I think SEO is important, but content (be it a copy text, an idea or a service) and usability are more important than findability as measure to a good website.-

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@Kristi941

SEO is mostly:


quality content
usability
accessibility
semantic markup


If your site is built with the four principles in mind your site will be optimized for the search engines. If you have to go back and "SEO your website" then you made mistakes when you first built it and only are fixing it (or making it worse if your changes are only being made with the search engines in mind).

Once a properly built website is launched the only real SEO to be done is to utilize tools like Google Webmaster Tools to help facilitate the indexing of your site and find potential errors or problems that the search engines have with your site. Then from there it's continually adding new quality content (if applicable) and marketing (seeking links is marketing).

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@Yeniel560

Perhaps indirectly SEO can improve a website. It encourages you to think about quality content, good navigation and site usability.

But no, SEO itself does not make a website good or bad at all. In other words, good SEO is a side-effect of a good website.

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@Carla537

Short answer no. But what do you mean by 'good'. Not a great question. A website has many aspects all of which should be attended well to make a superior quality site.

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