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The bottom line is that your website should be designed and written with the user in mind, making it easy for them to find the information that they need and then take action. This is how you use SEO and web design to make your website more user-friendly.<\/p>\n
An Added Bonus<\/h3>\n
Of course, there is one other big reason that your site should be user friendly and it has nothing to do with search engines or any type of online marketing, and that’s the human element. When your site is user-friendly, your visitors will not only view your more as a company that cares about its customers, but they will also see you as technologically competent since you built a website they liked where your competition failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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