Best Web Site Design Practices--Splash Pages sink fast in search engines

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	Splash, and Sink Fast in Search A splash page is a landing page for a Web site with lots of graphics and pizzazz and nothing much else. Often the only text on the page is a link saying "Enter". The page usually looks terrific. In fact, it may make a big splash with your visitors. Trouble is the search engine spiders expect to find the most important keywords for your entire site on the first page that opens. If that page is a splash page, then all your site is about in the spider's eyes is enter. There is no more certain way to sink a site in the search engines than to have the landing page be a splash page. If you need a page where you can let your creative flair run free, make it some inside page, and build yourself a home page that is rich in spider food. What good is a terrific looking landing page if nobody ever finds their way to it? Back to Design Tips Page.


	Points to Consider Main Design-Tips Page.

		Remember that your monitor is not everybody's monitor.

		Image errors have many aliases.

		Watch out for disappearing fonts.

		Remember 3 words, Show and Tell.

		Avoid needless distractions.

		Keep formatting in reason.

		Pardon our construction, or don't.

		Splash no splash in search engines.

		SEO gone in a Flash.Turn Sound Down First!

		Music to my ears may not be music to every ear.

		Keywords? Start with the contents of Webster's.

		Don't be a Copy Cat.

		Do be a Copy Writer, or hire an expert to write good copy.

		Don't be selfish. Share the Wealth.

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