Archive for the ‘Website Usability’ Category

Facebook changes – again!

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 [...]

Matt Cutts says content not page rank

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 [...]

Favicons should be part of your SEM

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 [...]

Acting on information from your customers / website visitors

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 [...]

Deliberate SEO errors by website designers

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 [...]

10 questions to ask yourself about your website

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 [...]

IM 1.0 sales letters

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 [...]

Should Facebook listen to the users?

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 [...]

Keywords that stand out from the crowd

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 [...]

More Twitter problems

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 [...]