In the world of the web the navigation of a website is paramount to getting users to where they want and ultimately where you want them to be. Navigation is an essential tool in the arsenal of a Website Designer and Internet Marketer. Navigation is like a map, it directs people to pages of importance [...]
Continue Reading →As you may suspect during the run up to and during the holiday season website traffic (across the board) increases fairly dramatically. This again as you may guess is down to people looking for and buying gifts. But one question I am always faced with is how best to leverage this extra traffic, both at say [...]
Continue Reading →This post is the product of a recent spate of enquiries I received, in essence each wanting to know How to optimise Google Places. However, my experience is that Google Places is pretty hard to optimise, this is because Google wants all businesses to supply the same data (great) and it will then bring your result [...]
Continue Reading →As a website owner or internet marketer, you’ll probably know the profitability of a website and what it sells is based on conversion rates. Increasing this by just 1% in some cases can mean millions extra income, for others a 50% increase will mean a larger profitability such that the company can survive – obviously [...]
Continue Reading →Now there are so so many resources out there, but I want to share my top 5 online resources for web designers, developers and website owners. Articles & Blog Resources 1 – Smashing Magazine These guys are simply superb, renowned for the “top ten” lists they role out on a regular basis and of course [...]
Continue Reading →Recently one of my posts was published over at boagworld … eran subsequently passed comments about how User Experience (UX) has nothing to do with SEO. Something I couldn’t really disagree with more… but rather than simply state my opinion I want to be a little more constructive and so here are my 9.5 Steps [...]
Continue Reading →Over the past few months I’ve been asked time and time again “What steps can I take to perform SEO on my site?”
Generally, I ask about the site they are talking about (all sites need something a little different), have a nice little consultation with the person asking the question and then give them a list of things they may want to do (ideally), what they should do (mid-ground) and the things they need to do (must-do). So under those headings I’ve created a Top 10 list of the most common occurrences that I’ve found.
Continue Reading →The world of facebook for business is one of a questionable nature for many. So with this in mind here are my top ten tips for making facebook work for your business ventures. Facebook should be seen in the same manner as offline sales. Soft sales techniques should be used. Don’t blatently sell! Facebook is [...]
Continue Reading →Ok over the past few weeks I’ve been chatting to a few people about the make-up of a URL. From use of top-level domains to use of special characters in a domain. From these chats I’ve come up with my “top 10 rules for designing urls” list.
Continue Reading →Over the past few months I have made an effort to be positive and tell the world of Website Owners about how to achieve Great SEO Results. However, it isn’t always a bed of roses I am sorry to say. Below is my Top 10 List of actions which can cause your SEO to fail. [...]
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