I can not emphasize enough that it is extremely important to be in complete control of the web site’s growth. Some of the major problems usually begin when the site starts getting bigger and bigger as the time goes by. Probably, this is when the first issues of web usability and optimization arise as the web site becomes more and more unfriendly and extremely difficult to navigate.
Not once I saw an evidence how site owners neglect their Internet property. Even if the main navigation web pages look fine, when I dive slightly deep, I encounter a large quantity of broken links, 404 errors, poorly coded sections. In turn, this bad maintenance makes indexing of the web pages impossible. Search engine spiders can not go through erroneous web pages and leave, because the web site can not be indexed.
So, why is this major rule easily forgotten by site owners. We encountered a lot of them who thought that it would be fun to maintain the site by themselves. Yet during the site growth maintenance started turning into routine that was not the first in their list of priorities. Other owners trying to save money did not hire professional webmasters but college students or amateurs who had limited knowledge about web development. There were also cases that even while having a professional webmaster on board, site owners felt overwhelmed and practically removed themselves from making any serious decisions regarding their web sites. They simply chose to make their webmaster a “scapegoat” for everything that they did not do on time.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Some of the major problems
Labels:
development,
maintenance,
navigation,
optimization,
usability,
webmasters
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