Posted on 10 December 2008
1. Use .htaccess to redirect the non-www version of your website to the www version.
2. Extend the registration of your domain for at least five years.
3. Make sure that when a visitor clicks your website’s logo, they are taken back to the homepage.
4. If you think your font is too small, make it bigger!
5. Remove [...]
Posted on 10 December 2008
Search Engine Submission
Search engine submission is very basic and everybody should do this on their sites. Search engine submission is very easy to do and it’s free. Just go to major search engines and click on, usually, their help links to find out how to submit your site to their database.
You do not need to [...]
Posted on 15 November 2008
You have a well designed website with perfect usage of flash banners and graphic designs, with proper site navigation and easy accessibility. Still do you feel that you are not getting the desired visitors and sales to your site? I suggest you probably need to work on the content in the site. I believe it is [...]
Posted on 11 September 2008
When designing your website, remember one thing: Less is more. Some people make the mistake of filling up every pixel on their web page with a different image or graphic or piece of text. Not only does this usually look bad, but it greatly diminishes the chance that the visitor will be able to find [...]
Posted on 11 September 2008
You absolutely must trigger an emotional reaction with your copy if you intend to get response – whether you’re looking for a lead or a sale. It doesn’t matter who you’re marketing to, either: Business to business sales are still decided by human beings, just like consumer sales. And all human beings buy on emotion.
With [...]
Posted on 16 August 2008
You can not hope to specialize if you don’t have your basics right. After all what you build on a shaky base is doomed to shatter. Let me illustrate three very basic, but often undermined principles of web design. It will give you an idea what to look for when browsing templates or portfolios and [...]
Posted on 16 August 2008
After selecting a Web site topic, keyword generation is the first and arguably most important step of the search-engine-optimization, or SEO, process. The bulk of your Web site, from the directory and file names to the title tags and page copy, is built around the words and phrases you choose during the keyword generation phase.
The [...]
Posted on 12 June 2008
Often times we get so caught up in marketing our site and making it aesthetically pleasing, we forget one of, if not THE most important part of SEO. Content. The search engines can not see pictures, so the only way to tell them what your site is all about is to provide that information to [...]
Posted on 12 June 2008
A website can be an easy thing to manage, but without the proper approach, it can also be a hassle-generating failure. So Jon Friedman lists eight points for making your site is attractive to consumers and generally successful.
Since Friedman’s ideas are intended for magazines, we’ll skip and combine a few of them here. His first, however - [...]
Posted on 04 June 2008
I got into search engine optimization back in 1998. It sure has changed a lot since then. Back in the day you could use invisible text, load keywords to the point of overflowing and fill META tags with anything even close to what you had on your page. And you could do well on Google, [...]