Greetings SEJ readers! It’s a new year and time for a new design at Search Engine Journal . I know what many of you are thinking … “didn’t SEJ just go through a new design?” Well the answer is yes and no. As a blogger I do not think that there is always room for improvement in design and tweaking a professional blog and/or community will always be part of the blog marketing mix. The more transparent answer is that yes, we did just redesigning about a year ago, and I’ve had some issues with it : First off, we could never get the rotating headline to work on all browsers, and I got sick of seeing errors. There were a log of pagination, indexing and crawling issues which should not be associated with a search engine blog. The firm that put together the old template bailed before updating our specs and passed us on to some cutting companies that had no idea what they were doing. Although the last template was sleak, clean and lite … I thought that we had lost a little bit of our identity. The major search blogs seem to all be white & blue. That’s fine. We’re SEJ. We think differently and look differently. So we reverted back to the old color scheme from the Pearson design we implemented in 2006. I like being back. Ok, so with every design there are certain goals in mind. I’ll line them out below and address the changes we made. Page Speed & Hosted