Developing an ASP.NET website that complies with your technical specifications and one that is successful in the search engines is, at times, a tall order. Especially within the ASP.NET community, a constant question looms: How can we best develop the website for SEO? There are several elements of a site that will help it succeed in the search engines, and consequently acquire more traffic, sales, revenue, etc. Make Page Elements Easy to Control Whether you're using an existing content management system such as DNN Evoq, or you're building a proprietary platform for your company, make sure that your team is able to edit page elements easily and quickly. Here is just a sample of what you'll want editable for SEO purposes: Page title Headers (H1, H2s, H3s) Content: including text, images, links, etc. When your website is editable on a page level, it makes the speed of optimization much better than otherwise. A ton of benefit will come from using pages on your website to specifically target the keyword terms that are important to your business. Move, Minimize, or Eliminate ViewState Many websites, especially on the ASP.NET framework, have a block of alphanumeric code on the pages of the website called ViewState. This code, especially at the top of the rendered source, can be distracting for crawlers/search engines and will sometimes push down the rest of the content. There are a few ways to fight against this: Move the ViewState to lower on the page Minimize the size of the ViewState code Develop the site so that it doesn't require ViewState in the source All of these tactics will help fight against the ugly ViewState and assist your company in achieving its SEO goals. Render All Content Server-Side While "content is king" for SEO optimization, not all content is created equal. In order to make your site most friendly to search engine crawlers, the content will need to be crawlable in the source in order to fully benefit your website. Make sure that when you develop your site, the content is rendered in the source. Work With World Class ecommerce Developers & Support, Get Started Today! Most if not all of Clarity's success can be attributed to the level of talent that we bring on year in and year out. When you work with Clarity to improve your company's web systems, you can feel rest assured that you are in the hands of industry experts and some of the most capable individuals in the industry. You can learn more from our SEO experts. Call us or fill out our request form to speak with our consultants today!