Archive for the ‘Website Usability’ Category
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
More changes to come on Facebook. This time, some actually seem to make sense.
However, there is one particular change which seems likely to upset users, advertisers and hence Facebook’s potential revenue.
Last week, almost below my radar, a small notification appeared which casually stated, amongst other text, that notifications would be vanishing in the New Year [...]
Tags: E-mail, email, facebook, usability, website design Posted in Social Media, Website Usability | No Comments »
Friday, June 19th, 2009
In a recent blog post, Matt Cutts clarifies the Page Rank debate which has raged, with particular relation to sculpting sites for PR. He recommends allowing Page rank to flow freely through your site rather than trying to sculpt pages and links to force PR to flow.
It seems that some of us SEO folk had [...]
Tags: google, Matt Cutts, nofollow, page rank, pagerank, Search engine optimization Posted in SEM Industry, SEO, Stats & Trends, Website Usability, google | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Do you have a favicon on your site? Years ago, we encouraged everyone to make sure their website designer included one, but the trend rather fell off, as despite being shown in bookmarks or favourites, and in the browser location bar, there seemed little other purpose. And designing a meaningful favicon at 16 x 16 [...]
Tags: favicon Posted in SEM Industry, SEO, Website Usability | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
As we have posted before, behavioural advertising is a hot topic. And showing advertising on websites to many _is_ acceptable as long as it is there to a) bring interesting products/info/brands to your attention and b) if it helps keep much of what makes the Internet the exciting phenemenon that it is, free.
However, with all [...]
Tags: facebook Posted in Social Media, Website Usability, crm | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Just done a free website review for a local business to give them some ideas of why their website is so appalling from an SEO point of view. It is actually usable, but it is not search engine friendly. Which is why, even though I knew they had a website, it took almost an hour [...]
Tags: website design Posted in Keywords, SEO, Website Usability | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Take a deep breath, click on your website URL, stand back from the screen and ask yourself the following questions about your site. Pretend you have never seen your site before ….
How long does it take you to work out what your website is about? (Remember, you have never seen it before)
Is your site design [...]
Tags: website Posted in Content, Keywords, Website Usability | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Surely they have to stop?! We’ve all seen them, here is the latest to land in my inbox – the sales letter the punters love!
WATCH my sales soar……
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Read no further, just scroll down and BUY IT NOW!! This purchase will change your life – GUARANTEED! 100%, 30 day money back guarantee – what have you [...]
Posted in Content, Pay Per Click (PPC), SEM Industry, Social Media, Website Usability | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
The recent changes at Facebook seem to have caused no little uproar. It is a well-known fact that the FB community are reluctant to accept changes, so it was hardly going to be a surprise to anyone that, when a change was made, it would be greeted with outrage. However, the latest changes (which are [...]
Tags: facebook Posted in Social Media, Website Usability | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Think about the average website you visit after a search engine search.
Sometimes, the page you land on isn’t even seemingly related to the search term or keywords you searched on. What do you do? Yes, you may pass a cursory glance over the page content but if there is no seeming relevance to your search [...]
Posted in Content, Keywords, SEO, Website Usability | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
As reported today in multiple places, but graphically so here, Twitter users are facing yet more problems.
The cause is either a security hole within Twitter that someone has found and is exploting, albeit with poor spelling and a fairly atrocious sense of humour, or it has come from the latest wave of both phishing attacks [...]
Tags: security, twitter Posted in Small Business Resources, Social Media, Website Usability | No Comments »
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