Website Design: McGwire Vs. Babe
If you were to compare your company’s website design to famous baseball players, would your site be emblematic of Mark McGwire or Babe Ruth? While these players did not compete or play during the same era, both set and broke amazing home run records.
As we know — today, Babe Ruth had some unhealthy habits. Back then, baseball players could down a couple of hot dogs and slam a few beers, before hitting a homer. That’s how Babe played the season he came up with 60 home runs. Nevertheless, the wins were genuine, free of any superhuman inducing powers. Mark McGwire didn’t down any hot dogs during the season that he set the new 70-home run record. In fact, he went the other way with steroids.
As for website design, who do you prefer to emulate, Mark McGwire or Babe Ruth? Organizations who are concerned with protecting their legacy generally mimic Babe. While, their site may have a few flaws, they conduct business above board. When Google indexes their site, it is free of the steroid-esque qualities.
- Door way pages
- Misleading meta tags
- Stuffed Keywords
- Misleading title pages
- Link exchanges
In the end, it’s up to the Major League Baseball organization to determine how to document the history books about baseball players, who broke records under the influence of steroids.
Unfortunately, Google is not so forgiving. Although, Google will never question the legitimacy of the company Website developed using ethical website design and SEO programming, websites not meeting appropriate design standards can be penalized, and potentially excluded from their search engine results.
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