An question was asked recently on the Cre8asite forum about some of the Acronyms used relation to search engines. It made me think again about the terminology I use daily and realize that not everybody speaks the same language when it comes to the subject of SEO. Anyway, have a look at the thread to [...]

Posted in April 2008

Do you use forms on your website? Are they the only way to get to the content? Even a simple dropdown list of categories will stop the indexing robots in their tracks. Matt Cutts offers some advice on how to unlock your content and allow the spiders to do their business: Solved: another common site [...]

Posted in April 2008

The whole aim of this site is to help people build effective websites. But do you really know what an effective website is? Is is the design, the coding, the technology, the images, the copy? The answer is much simpler, an effective website is one that meets the customers needs. A visitor to a website [...]

Posted in April 2008

Somebody asked for a review of their website the other day. The site itself was fine but all sorts of alarm bells started to ring when I investigated their domain. What we had was a UK based site with a .tv TLD, hosted in the USA. The result was that the site didn’t appear in [...]

Posted in March 2008

Hopefully one of the aims of any website is to get a decent ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs). To achieve this to need to provide the search engines with something to index. And the very first thing a search engine look for is the page title. The page title should describe the [...]

Posted in March 2008