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- Research successful websites targeted at your audience.

Why reinvent the wheel when you don’t need to! Consider elements successful sites relating to your audience made - be that demography, culture or age - and add your own spice where necessary.

Here’s some popular demography, culture and age specific sites to reference:

• http://www.myspace.com
• http://www.spaces.live.com
• http://www.last.fm
• http://www.frappr.com
• http://www.blogger.com
• http://www.microsoft.com
• http://www.boingboing.net
• http://www.cnn.com

It’s getting cramped enough without trying to be original, adhere to common design standards - hire an experienced artist and developer - and focus on your product content. If presentation and usability is to design then essence and interpretation is to content, both practices are separate yet entwine in popular web development ethics.

For every handful of success stories you will learn of many that weren’t, understand others past mistakes - what caused its failure, what reasoning stood to build it in the first place and what would you do instead - and avoid them.

This collection of SEO articles will boost awareness as well as the satisfaction of your inbound traffic. Looking for more ways to boost your site, comments?

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About the Author - Michael Visser is the founder of Visser Labs. He works as a professional Front-end Web Developer, loves Wordpress, Joomla and helping people get more out of their sites.