filed in Uncategorized on May.09, 2010
Google has provided more details about the recent changes to its search results page. Jon Wiley, senior user experience designer at Google, said in a blog post that the new layout is an effort to meet the “rising expectations for search” from increasingly web savvy users. “As the web has evolved over the past decade, [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on Jun.25, 2009
Habitat is a pretty well respected brand here in the UK but they have made the most astounding clanger with the use of Twitter and hashtags. Hashtags are words that you paste onto the end of your tweets to add to a larger conversation. Â The way it works is that people will use Twitter Search [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on Jun.27, 2008
Links from authority websites are undoubtedly one of the best things you can have to increase the SEO of your own website. Ideally they should be in a similar sector to your business but a link is a link and a link from an authority website is much more powerful than a link from an [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on Jun.13, 2008
Is offshoring your development as good value as it seems? I’ve had a pretty manic week sorting out a website that had been left half finished by some offshore developers (an awful situtation to be in). The code was in a bit of a state and our client’s client was keen to get it live. [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on Jun.05, 2008
Ok, maybe it’s too early for me to say this (having only registered with Plurk this morning and still in the stage of calling it Plunk) but I just cannot see how Twitter can compete with it in the future. If I had to name one thing about Plurk that kills Twitter it would have [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on Jun.02, 2008
I was at a breakfast meeting last week and I was asked a question which I hadn’t been asked before: “In what way is SEO different to website design?”. In effect, he was asking – “What is SEO?”. I’d been spouting on about SEO and internet marketing and he had no idea what it was. [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on May.23, 2008
What makes people click a link in Twitter? I keep banging on about the importance of the headlines in your blog and how they have to be punchy, relevant and make people want to click them. I’ve also talked about Twitter and how it’s best to treat it as a micro-blog. When you tweet something [...]
filed in Uncategorized on May.19, 2008
I’ve spent my money – give me yours! Why should I market my website? Good question. You’ve done all the hard work of actually designing the website, making it pretty and deciding on whether the word ‘web’ or ‘website’ was more important. Why should you have to put MORE effort into marketing it? Surely now [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on May.13, 2008
So you want to be a StumbleUpon god? You want to bask in the lovely traffic that it sends your way? None of this Digg-server-crashing thousands-per-minute traffic but nice solid, medium term, nice, warm, lovely, targetted traffic. Well, yes, we can do that. But then what do you want to do with that traffic? Do [...]
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filed in Uncategorized on May.12, 2008
An interesting blog post here from Kelvin Newman about people registering with social websites using recognised brands. http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/blog/?p=141 Have you considered what might happen if your brand was hijacked? I’ve already talked about the new trademark rules from Google regarding Pay Per Click but what about people registering using your name on Facebook, or Twitter, [...]
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