Home Forums Coloring Why should SEO strategy be built into the website architecture from day one?

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    • #471970
      Forrest McPadden
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      When I built my first portfolio site, I didn’t think about SEO at all. I just focused on how it looked and how fast I could launch it. A few months later, I realized nobody could actually find it through search. That’s when it hit me — maybe SEO isn’t something you “add later,” but something that should shape the structure from the start. Has anyone else learned this the hard way?

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      CarlFirst
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      I worked on a real estate website that had the same issue — beautiful design, but zero traffic for months. We had to rebuild half the site because URLs, tags, and content hierarchy weren’t optimized. After that, I started treating SEO like the foundation, not the decoration. I once got help from a team offering search engine optimisation services sydney — here’s the link: https://www.shtudio.com.au/services/seo/. They helped us organize everything logically before adding visuals. Once that was in place, the site finally started ranking and generating leads. Now I always push clients to plan SEO and architecture together from day one.

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      Toby Mag
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      I think it’s one of those things people only appreciate after they see the consequences. You can’t expect Google to magically understand your site if you didn’t build it with clarity. The structure, internal links, and even the order of content sections all tell a story to search engines. It’s funny how something invisible like information hierarchy can make or break visibility. When a site is planned with both design and SEO in mind, everything just flows better — for users and algorithms alike.

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