1. Considerations Mobile Friendly Search Engine Friendly
Website Design
Considerations
Mobile Friendly
Search Engine Friendly

3. Ease of navigation
Menu with “home” on every page
Simple scroll through articles
Dropdown navigation pages with article summaries and links

4. GoDaddy.com Managed Wordpress Site

5. Dashboard
Help
Help

6. Appearance/Theme selection
Many options as part of payment for “managed WordPress site”

7. Plugins/Widgets
Many options available as part of payment for “managed WordPress site”
Spam control – “Akismet”
Social media – “AddToAny Share Buttons”
Reader comments – “Comment Control”
Google Ads – “AdSense”
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – “Yoast SEO”
WordPress Tutorials – “WP101 Video Tutorials”
Slide shows – “Ultimate Responsive Image Slider”

8. Social Media
Post your articles on Facebook
Post your photos on Instagram
Cross-link to create a “community”
Drive traffic to your site/articles
Add visibility
Improve your Google score

9. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Optimization for:
Title
First paragraph text
Key Words are important
Text highlights
Use subheadings
Avoid sentences with >20 words
Use active voice
Avoid same starting word in consecutive sentences
Use transition words or phrases
Watch paragraph length
Photos/Images – “Media”
Caption
Alt Text
Description
Links are evaluated by Google
Yoast SEO
Green button
Orange button
Red button
Key Words – use them in your title, first sentence, text and one header in the text

10. How photos help your SEO
The Web is visual – increase your views with photos
Post images/photos and videos on sites to drive traffic to your site or post
Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
In Summary
You can DIY
Start small
Network
Join meetup groups
Take classes
OR hire a website designer