filed in Google, Marketing, Misc, SEO on Aug.12, 2010
Back in April, Google announced that the speed of your website is a factor in how they rank your site. That’s not ground-breaking. Â If a site is dead slow then it makes sense that people will be less impressed by it and less likely to use it. Â If they don’t use it then it’s no [...]
filed in Website Design on Aug.04, 2009
This is part of an occasional series looking at some of the poorer websites found on the web today. For the previous post, click here. Today we’re looking at the visual crime that is http://www.msy.com.au/ – “The Name You Can Trust”. I’m not too sure where to start with this one.  It’s a sort of minimalist [...]
filed in Website Design on Jul.06, 2009
This is part of an occasional series looking at some of the poorer websites found on the web today. For the first post, click here. Today, we’re going to look at the navigational nightmare that is http://www.1001pens.com/ OK, it’s not as offensively bright as the last site we looked at but it’s still so bad [...]
filed in Google, Misc, SEO on Dec.02, 2008
I was checking out some of my competitor’s websites a few days ago (something I recommend that you do periodically) and was amazed to see that some of them were still offering a ‘search engine submission’ service. There may have been some value in this service back in 1997 but to offer this as a [...]