Essential SEO Strategies for Web Designers in SA
SEO and web design overlap — South African designers should ship sites that Google can crawl, load fast on mobile, and target local intent from day one.
Technical foundations
- HTTPS and clean permalinks
- XML sitemap submitted
- One H1 per page, logical headings
- No broken links at launch
Core Web Vitals
LCP, INP, CLS on mobile — design and dev share responsibility.
On-page SEO
Unique titles, meta descriptions, alt text, internal links.
Local SEO markup
LocalBusiness schema, city keywords, GBP alignment. Local SEO guide.
Content structure
Service pages that answer real questions — not keyword stuffing.
Handoff to ongoing SEO
Retainers R3,500 – R12,000/month for content and monitoring.
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