Best SEO practices for Web flow website

Search engine optimization (SEO) shrugs many web developers and designers. But it shouldn’t. Most current SEO best practices double as standard UX best practices. So when you build a Web flow website, don’t freak out about SEO. Think about usability. Great page layout, efficient navigation, and easy-to-read content are must-haves for readers and search bots. Optimizing for these factors is easy too, as Web flow already comes with many great SEO tools. 

Is Web flow good for SEO?

Web flow gives you some SEO headroom. Unlike other website builders (open source or SaaS), Web flow prioritizes clean code, meaning that search engine crawlers can easily scan Web flow websites to understand the content and rank indexed pages accordingly. Also, Web flow has the entire essential for on-site website optimization such as:

• Native controls for adding meta titles, descriptions, image alt texts, and custom permalinks structures
• Easy integration with Google Analytics and Search Console, plus XML sitemap generation functionality
• Convenient Editor to apply heading tags, contextual links, and other rich text elements
• Intuitive design tools for creating an effective website navigation and site browsing experience.

Tips to SEO optimize your Web flow website

SEO titles and Meta descriptions for all pages 

Your Meta title and Meta description are on display in search engine results (SERPs), on social media, and in the web browser. That’s a lot of exposure, right? Meta titles and descriptions provide a text preview of your page’s content. Compelling Meta description copy can help more clicks. A high click-through rate, in turn, is a positive SEO factor. The more people click on your website, the more value Google believes it provides- the higher it will rank. 

Meta title (tag)

A title tag is the first touch point between you and a potential visitor. Use a descriptive and memorable one-liner to explain what your page is all about. Keep it under 60 characters. 

Meta Description

The Meta description is a text page summary displayed in search results. It should be under 158 characters. Longer ones are truncated. Ideally, aim for the 150-155 characters range.

Treat your Meta description as an ad copy:

• Promote your main products
• Mention a competitive advantage
• Highlight a brand differentiator
• Pitch a special offer
• Your goal is to persuade the user to click on your website over the competitors

Here are a few more dos and don’ts for writing meta titles and descriptions:

• Create unique pairs for each page. Don’t duplicate.
• Don’t use alphanumeric characters as these may not be displayed properly.
• Add relevant keywords- one in the title and one in the meta description. 
• Provide a title and description relevant to the page content.

Alt texts for all images

• Alt texts (tags) are like Meta descriptions for images. They explain the image content to a search engine crawler that can’t see it.
• Alt tags are also good for web accessibility as screen readers rely on them to render image content. Also, text descriptions will pop up if the image fails to load.
• But the best news is that properly optimized images can help you rank higher in search results as confirmed by Google. Especially if the user’s query has Google image pack results. 

Set up proper URL structures

Users and search bots both rely on URLs to identify the content of a web page. An SEO-friendly URL is short and keyword-rich. Typically, it mimics your page title. But you may want to drop some filler words to match them with your target keyword. 

Use proper header tags

Once you are done with page structure optimization, let’s tweak your page content. Here you should focus on setting up proper header tags (H1 to H6). Title tags help readers and search engines process the content of your page and understand how different pieces of information relate to one another. They capture the main topic and subtopics.

Are SEO-optimized headers a ranking factor?

Adding relevant keywords to headers helps describe the page content better. But keywords alone won’t guarantee higher rankings. When creating page titles, think of usability over SEO. Assign proper H1, H2, and H3 titles to denote hierarchical levels of information.

• Use H1 once for the main page title (e.g., product category name or blog post title).
•  Apply H2 to content when you need to outline the main subsections.
• Add H3 when you need to list extra points within the broader topic
• Sprinkle in keywords when you see them contextually fit.  

Check your website navigation

Website navigation is the cornerstone to providing a tremendous on-page experience for users. A proper header and footer structure provides some SEO benefits too. While reading a book, you can refer to a table of contents, page numbers, or chapter titles to find specific information. Information architecture and website navigation serve a similar purpose for the web.

Information Architecture

Information architecture provides a backbone org structure and taxonomy for defining the relationships between different web pages. Information architecture isn’t part of a graphical user interface. But it informs your website layout and navigation. Proper information architecture helps ensure that:

• All content is grouped contextually
• The most important pages receive the most internal links
• No pages are orphaned (have no pathway to it)

Website navigation

Website navigation is a set of UI components we rely on to make our way around the website. Navigation helps users discover relevant information and prompts them to take the desired action. The main web navigation components are:

• Global header menu
• Footer navigation
• Content links  

All are important for both users and search engines. Here’s how.

Pages with a prominent place in your navigation menus tend to get more clicks and the most internal links (from lower-level pages leading to them, for example). As a result, they perform better in search results. On the opposite, the under-looked (and under-linked) pages don’t rank as well, even if they are otherwise fit ranking.

Informative architecture, paired with effective website navigation, can help identify content clusters located too deep within the website and resurface them. Plus, it ensures that the most important content also receives the most internal links.

While navigation practices vary for different types of websites, at the very basic you should:

•  Bring the most important pages to the header menu.
• List subcategories as a dropdown menu. But don’t go two categories deep as this can result in a cluttered look.
• Use descriptive category names
•  Cross-link semantically relevant content around your website (product pages to content marketing pages) 

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