In a recent study looking at the “descriptions” of website search engine listings, we have noticed that your main SERP listing is being manipulated by Alexa.com. If you take your top key word search engine placement within Google and look at your website’s description, you will notice something similar with other websites, the descriptions match [...]
As an authorative hub a link from a DMOZ directory category to your website will give your site a boost in PageRank? and may assist in getting search engine spiders to crawl your site faster and more often. Google also uses DMOZ data for its Google directory. What does this mean? It is well known [...]
Perhaps the simplest of all the lessons I have learned about writing for search engines is to keep my pages simple. That is to say, whether I am thinking about my readers or about Google, there is a huge advantage to keeping most of your pages confined to a single topic. There are three approaches [...]
In this article, I will attempt to cover the basics of creating a great quality web design template for your site. Now it’s a known fact that the layout or “eye candy” as I put it will determine whether your visitors will stay more than 15 seconds or they will just become another statistic. In [...]
One of the most common problems being encountered by site owners is what they call writer’s blog. To exemplify more, this basically means the need to produce great content day after day to be put into their web sites. Not all people have the capacity to write about things everyday. Even the best of the [...]
1. As the first step, “Hire a web designer.” First create a storyboard of your website, based on your strategy. 2. Focus on graphics, typefaces and colors. Focus on potential clients and customers. 3. Avoid anything that has to do with “strategy.” Spend more time on strategy than on website design. 4. Rely on your [...]
When building my website “Crossword Heaven” I came across a problem. I created a PHP object called “crossword” but needed to save the information in the object to a database. Now considering that this object contained a lot of information this was not an easy thing to do. Or was it? The answer: serialize(). What [...]
Online search giant, Google, often tests the waters for new services by rolling out a “beta” (first) version of an idea to gauge public reaction. By employing this strategy, it’s easy to imagine a building full of creative, “mad scientist” types cooking up the latest and greatest online gizmos. In fact, you can take a [...]
After 2 years of designing Web Sites, I decided to take a peek at one of my customer’s log files. My fear disappeared after about 10 seconds of looking at it. In the midst of some weird symbols and long lines of funny characters, was able to see something familiar. It was the site’s web [...]
Online search giant, Google, often tests the waters for new services by rolling out a “beta” (first) version of an idea to gauge public reaction. By employing this strategy, it’s easy to imagine a building full of creative, “mad scientist” types cooking up the latest and greatest online gizmos. In fact, you can take a [...]
