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Your End User Wants A Well Developed Site Not Just Top SEO
[2009-07-02] For some people, SEO has always been about this - creating a killer page that deserves to be number 1. Perhaps it doesn't always shine through in the work you do - there are a variety of constraints that can hold you back - money, time, resources or corporate politics to name but a few. But in general, this is the approach that always serves you well. This article looks at some of the traits of a category killing page and how you moving away from the "keyword, keyword, keyword" mentality that SEO encourages can do wonders for your rankings.
Developing Accessible Websites For Your Future Customers
[2009-06-18] Whenever consumers decide to purchase something new, quality is usually a concern. The expression "they don't make them like they used to" has never been more true when you look around at many items these days that are mass produced or, due to rigorous production timelines, simply aren't rewarded the amount of attention they deserve.
Exposing Your Site To Extended Maintenance Can Kill Your Traffic
[2009-05-26] This is a post I am sure the "Andy Beard Haters Club" will gloat over, but as I haven't been able to find a resource anywhere on the effect extended use of 503 Service Unavailable can potentially have on a site, and in particular the effect on search traffic, I thought I should write about it.
Holistic Link Building Focuses On The Site As A Whole
[2009-05-07] In my last post, Holistic Link Building 101, the beginning of a series of post was embarked upon and the topic is very subjective. When it comes to building a website for SEO success, however, link building or development is an extremely important part of an effective online marketing strategy.
Integrating VOC With Your Site Analytics
[2009-04-16] In the first post on this topic, I promised to walk though the basic steps involved in integrating VOC data into your web analytics solution. I'm focusing on QuestionPro - a very inexpensive survey solution as an example case and showing how it can be effectively tied into Omniture. In this post, I'll discuss the basics of data integration - capturing the survey respondent's identity.
Building A Successful Niche Website
[2009-03-26] I'm in the process of developing websites in a couple of different niches and going through the process of building sites from scratch has been instructional, especially since the process has changed with the availability of new technologies, here're a couple of steps to help accelerate your site development.
The Web Developer And Search Marketing Improved Cycle
[2009-03-06] This session looked at ways to better liaise with web developers in the search marketing promotional cycle. Nathan went through some examples of internal optimisation that the Live team were faced with.
Blog Information Visualized By Woopra
[2009-02-16] There are many ways to analyze the effect of blogging with Google Analytics ranking at the top for most due to the pricetag of free and robust features. As the social web continues to grow and become central to the internet experience, analytics and social monitoring software will HAVE to converge to measure on and off page interactions. We don't have that quite yet, but here are a number of other blog analytics tools that offer rich visualization and real time reporting features that are worth a look.
Free Tools To Help Build High Quality Sites
[2009-01-29] In the first part of the checklist, we looked at creating high quality websites from a client perspective and the tools that helps us do that. In this part we look at the (free) tools that will help us build high quality on the server side of the website.
Gaining Increased Knowledge Through Google Analytics
[2009-01-10] Google Analytics filters allow you manage and segment your incoming data giving you increased insight for your website. Google Analytics filters can be created for internal traffic, capturing sub domains, rewriting URLs within your reports, gaining a better understanding of referring keywords and even the exact page on Google where your traffic came from.
Optimizing Your Site for Local Success
[2008-12-11] Some businesses rely on telephone leads, either as the main source of revenue or as an important means of acquiring customers. This includes anyone from pizza and other delivery restaurants to tradesmen like home inspectors or home improvement contractors. This includes most service sectors, too. Are there ways to get a leg up on the competition?
Translate Your Site Content Easily
[2008-11-13] For the first time in history, humans can interact and share information instantly from one side of the globe to the other, bringing ideas, cultures and knowledge to people all over the earth literally at the press of a button.
3rd Webmaster Chat Event Q and A
[2008-10-23] 3rd Webmaster Chat Event has got over! As always, huge number of webmasters were there to clear all the doubts and queries! The Googlers who were on-staff in the event were:
Optimizing Site Search for Your Visitors
[2008-10-02] Back in August of this year, while at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose, I sat in a session where one of the speakers talked about site search. He said something that I fundamentally disagree with but it got me thinking about why you should or should not implement a search feature on your own site.
The Best Marketing Checklist for Site Architectural Issues
[2008-09-11] What this is about: This list covers several elements regarding the architectural aspects of a website that focus on building a more search engine friendly site overall.
Use a Community of Professionals to Test Your Software
[2008-08-21] It was intrigued when a press release titled "over 8500 testers in more than 130 countries" was emailed to us.
Increasing Demand For Open Source Skills In The Enterprise
[2008-07-24] InfoWorld's Bill Snyder has a nice story about the rising demand for open source skills in the enterprise.
Clean Up SEO Problems Caused By Junk Code
[2008-06-26] There are a lot of little things that can junk up your code, but, for the most part, the search engines don't really care. It doesn't matter to them if your HTML validates or if you keep your code "clean" or not.
The Difference Between Front-end and Back-end Developers
[2008-06-04] Jakob asked me a question this evening: What is the difference between front-end and back-end developers? Not long after I was on my way home and couldn't stop thinking about it.
Is Nextanalytics an Open Source Company?
[2008-05-06] Nextanalytics, a business intelligence company based in Ottawa, announced the availability of the Nextanalytics 3.0, a business analytics platform with a proprietary analytic engine and an open source tier needed to integrate it with third parties' applications and solutions.
The imeem Media Platform Launches
[2008-04-04] Just when you thought social networking was safe-it's another platform. The imeem Media Platform, launched a few days ago, is the latest addition to social networking platform stable.
Custom Activities For IE 8
[2008-03-07] A few hours ago, IE 8 beta 1 was released for download.
Google Software Engineer on MapReduce
[2008-01-24] Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google's programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google's server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on how you look at it) to be quickly crunched.
Getting a list of Application Names in ColdFusion
[2007-12-21] Andy asks:
When Does a Session Start?
[2007-11-29] Darren asks:
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