Top Your Rivals And Explode Sales With CSS By: James Kinsley     Weather you are getting traffic to your site or not, CSS has many benefits you simply cannot live without. It will create a better user experience and also could be the deciding factor in the order of the top ranking sites for your keywords. Taking CSS seriously could push your site to the top page of Google rankings. CSS is paramount to your websites success. The online world is very competitive so you need every edge you can get. In the constant battle for search engine domination, every single factor in your SEO campaign must be considered essential. CSS is without a doubt vital to your rankings. CSS has advantages as a coding practice because:- • You save hours and hours of coding time if you want to change the looks of your site, as this can be done changing just one file! • Visitors will stay much longer on your site and are more likely to return simply because your site’s loading times are dramatically decreased. CSS cuts down your code so much less data needs to be transferred to display a page. • All users will get the same, optimal experience as CSS ensures users of different browsers see the same end result when your page is loaded. This is called cross-browser compatibility. • Your site will have the best rank it can achieve on the top search engines as CSS has plenty of SEO benefits. CSS files are a way to define the appearance of all/many of your web pages from one file. This is great because it means that you can change the color of all the text in your website at once, or change its size. You can exercise a vast amount of control over the looks of your site from background color to the space between lines of text from just one CSS file! Having all these controls in an external file also makes your HTML code as small and simple as possible. Search engines love it. Your page code is cut down heavily and this will increase the prominence of your keywords. The more prominent a keyword is, the higher you will rank in search engine results. CSS could be just what you need to push your website to page one search results. CSS will also increase the download speed of your website. This is a great advantage as visitors will often be put off by a slowly loading page. Visitors will stay longer and be more likely to return to a page for which they don’t have to wait all week to load. One massive advantage of CSS files are that they allows for web pages to be cross-browser compatible. In other words, the webpage is displayed exactly the same in, for example, internet explorer as it is in Firefox. You may not have known that there were differences, as it seems ridiculous, however different browsers interpret code differently and so display pages differently. Before implementing CSS, some websites look fine in Internet Explorer 6 but that are almost unreadable in Firefox and vice versa. CSS code is read the same in all browsers and so you know what your users will be looking at when you publish a page using CSS. For a beginners guide to CSS coding, visit: http://www.sharethewealth.co.uk/seo-articles/style-css-for-beginners.htm Article Source: zeronese.net article directory. Article Word Count Appx. : 542 Article Category: Articles » HTML-and-CSS » CSS See all articles by James Kinsley Note: Copying of article contents in whole is permitted provided that article body and article author by-lines are kept intact and unchanged. Hyperlinks and/or URLs including article source link provided by authors and/or zeronese must remain active at all times.       The views and opinions of authors expressed on Zeronese Article Directory web sites do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Zeronese.net .