{"id":1670,"date":"2010-08-09T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:59:59","slug":"search-engine-friendly-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/search-engine-friendly-websites.html","title":{"rendered":"Search Engine Friendly Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Search engine friendly websites\" href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Search engine friendly websites<\/a> are created by web design professionals who thoroughly understand the methods search engine companies use to choose one website link for placement in their results pages over another. Please call Directory One at 713-465-0051 to learn more about the practical methods our Houston web designers apply to the design, updating and maintenance of business websites to achieve the best results online.<\/p>\n<p>Too many web designers are only interested in doing the bare minimum to get a website up and running and only have a limited skill set to work with in their <a title=\"development of websites\" href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/website-content-development.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development of websites<\/a>. However, the way that a website is built actually makes a huge difference in the results that that website will have in online searches.<\/p>\n<p>You may have heard the acronym SERP thrown around by <a title=\"SEO companies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/seocreed-code-of-ethics.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SEO companies<\/a> and web designers who like to use the technical jargon to make the process seem even more confusing. However, this term is really just used to describe the placement of the link to your website, which has a description listed below it that is actually found in the meta coding of the site, on search engine result pages.<\/p>\n<h1>Getting My Website on Page 1 of Google<\/h1>\n<p>How easy it is to get your site on page 1 of Google, which still to date holds the largest share of Internet searches by far, will initially depend on how competitive your market is. For Houston online marketing, when we talk about how competitive the market is, it doesn&#8217;t mean the same thing as it would potentially mean in other types of discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The level of competition in your industry in the online sense really deals with how effective your competitors are at optimizing their websites and what kind of linking campaign they are using to achieving ranking in search engine results. In markets where businesses have yet to truly enter the world of SEO, websites that are not optimized well will often show up closer to the top of search engine rankings.<\/p>\n<p>However, the increased understanding of the need for SEO and the increased level of savvy that business owners are reaching in terms of technology is quickly changing that and business owners who were previously enjoying top status and rankings are quickly finding themselves falling out of the search engine results without a full understanding of what is happening to them and why they are no longer getting the attention they were previously accustomed to.<\/p>\n<h1>Houston SEO Services<\/h1>\n<p>The only way to prevent this from happening to you is to get on board with SEO (search engine optimization) now and make sure that you start with a search engine friendly website design. Once you have this initial design, you will then need to have an ongoing SEO campaign and online marketing campaign to prove that your website is a relevant result and is active as the best option for your customers who searching for you online.<\/p>\n<p>Please call 713-465-0051 to speak with the experienced SEO professionals at Directory One who will be happy to provide you with more information about search engine friendly websites today!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Houston SEO Web Design Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SEO Web Content\" href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/seo-content-equals-online-success.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SEO Web Content<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Best SEO Strategies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/best-houston-seo-service-strategies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best SEO Strategies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SEO Press Release Writing and Distribution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.directoryone.com\/blog\/seo-press-release-writing-and-distribution.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SEO Press Release Writing and Distribution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search engine friendly websites are created by web design professionals who thoroughly understand the methods search engine companies use to choose one website link for placement in their results pages over another. Please call Directory One at 713-465-0051 to learn more about the practical methods our Houston web designers apply to the design, updating and maintenance of business websites to achieve the best results online. Too many web designers are only interested in doing the bare minimum to get a website up and running and only have a limited skill set to work with in their development of websites. However, the way that a website is built actually makes a huge difference in the results that that website will have in online searches. You may have heard the acronym SERP thrown around by SEO companies and web designers who like to use the technical jargon to make the process seem even more confusing. However, this term is really just used to describe the placement of the link to your website, which has a description listed below it that is actually found in the meta coding of the site, on search engine result pages. Getting My Website on Page 1 of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[291,350,353,535,24,354],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-search-engine-optimization","tag-houston-seo","tag-online-marketing-in-houston","tag-search-engine-friendly-websites","tag-search-engine-optimization","tag-seo","tag-seo-web-content"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Houston SEO | Creating Search Engine Friendly Websites<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how to create search engine-friendly websites for your Houston business. 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