Alright, let’s get real about web design and SEO. You want your site to show up on Google, right? Well, design is kinda like the secret sauce that search engines actually care about. Here’s how not to mess it up:

First off, your site’s gotta be responsive.

• No one wants to pinch and zoom on their phone like it’s 2012. Google loves when your page just works on any device—laptop, tablet, phone, even that weird smart fridge screen maybe. If your site’s not mobile-friendly, you’re basically invisible.

Next up: images.

• People go nuts with giant photos, but all those huge files? Yeah, they’re killing your load speed and tanking your SEO. Shrink those images down, slap on some alt text (so Google knows what’s in 'em), and keep things snappy.

Let’s talk code.

• If your website’s code looks like a spaghetti dinner, search engines are gonna bounce. Clean it up. No extra junk, no wild experiments with languages that slow everything down. Think of it like tidying your room before your mom barges in.

Then, keywords.

• You need ‘em, but don’t just stuff ‘em everywhere like you’re writing a spam email. Put them in smart spots—like your URLs, headers, and stuff. That way, Google gets what your site’s about without thinking you’re a robot.

Internal links—people sleep on this, but it’s actually huge.

• Link your pages together so search engines can crawl your site like a curious little spider. It helps everyone (humans and robots) figure out where stuff is.

Honestly, you can have the fanciest design in the world, but if your content is trash or your site’s a pain to use, you’re gonna get smoked in the rankings anyway. So yeah, make it pretty, make it smart, and above all, make it useful. Google (and real people) will thank you.