Recently one of my clients asked me to view his website on a mobile smart phone. Since my wife purchased an iPhone4S for me last Christmas I decided to check it out. Unfortunately I could only view it by pinching, squeezing and scrolling…in other words it took some work. If I was a customer I probably wouldn’t bother and find a more mobile friendly site design.
February 23, 2012 By 4 Comments
Mobile Website Design: 5 Must-Have Features
Do you currently have a mobile version of your website?
Does your site display correctly on all mobile devices?
Are you tracking how many visitors try searching for your business using a smart phone?
When I began designing websites in the late 1990s most people didn’t understand the value of having an online presence for their business. They thought that regular advertising through yellow page ads or local newspaper ads and/or magazines was sufficient. Well that soon changed as more people realized their business needed a website to remain in business. In those days no one had a cell phone and definitely not a smart phone.
Nowadays almost half the population in the U.S. has a smart phone which means they have instant access to the web whatever their location. For instance many folks comparison shop while out and about while others use their phone (instead of their desktop computer) to search for information.
Can your website be easily viewed with a smart phone without constant scrolling or pinching and squeezing? If not it’s time for you to design a mobile version of your website otherwise you’re missing out on potential visitors and sales. It’s also the wave of the future.
Here’s 5 must-have features for mobile website design:
February 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
What Is A Link Wheel and Should You Use It for Building Links?
Link building is a necessity if you want to gain high rankings in the search engines and attract traffic to your website. The quality and quantity of links determines how well your website will rank. For instance if the number and quality of links is greater than your competitors you will outrank them.
What is a link wheel?
February 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
What Does it Mean If a Link Has the “Nofollow” Attribute?
“Nofollow” links are primarly used to stop search engines from following a specific link. This means no link juice gets passed on. For instance if I implement a “no follow” link on my website it will prevent passing on pagerank to the destination link and it will prevent the destination link from being crawled by the search engines.
The amount of “nofollow” links on the web are only a small percentage compared to the total number. Google, Yahoo, and Bing all include nofollow links in their site backlink counts however they don’t show all the backlinks from your site.
How to implement the “Nofollow” Attribute?
February 13, 2012 By 4 Comments
Contextual Link Building – What Is It And How To Build Them
If you want to gain high rankings in the search engines you need to focus on 2 crucial factors. The first one is to make sure all your web pages are optimized to enable the search engine spiders to easily index and rank your site. The second most important factor is building incoming links (backlinks) to your website. The quality, quantity and variety of links will determine how quickly your rankings increase.
Some of the most popular link building methods website owners employ include commenting on blogs, forums, submitting to search engines, directories, social bookmarking and sharing content through social media sites. One little known but highly effective method is contextual link building.
What is Contextual Link Building?
February 8, 2012 By 1 Comment
Effective Hosting Solutions for Web Professionals
Web developers and web designers work on web servers almost every day. Because of this, it is easier if the server environment is predictable. For that reason it’s often best for web designers and developers to offer web hosting solutions as part of the development package. This means that the web designer or web developer is purchasing the hosting and reselling it to the client.
February 7, 2012 By 2 Comments
How To Get Your Website On Google..Fast
Many new website owners believe that once they’ve got their site built it magically will appear in Google and the other search engines for keywords related to their industry. This kind of expectation is usually derived from reading or hearing rumors but not understanding the facts.
The only way to get your website listed or indexed by Google is through links because the web works through websites that are linked to each other. So if you’ve registered a brand new domain name and designed a new website it will only get found on Google if another site that is already on Google links to it.
So what are some of the fastest ways to get your website on Google?
February 3, 2012 By 1 Comment
Web Traffic Conversion – 4 Tips For Converting Traffic Into Sales
If you’re a website owner you need to generate traffic if you want to make sales or get new subscribers. However this is only a small part of the sales process. Even if you manage to attract thousands of visitors to your website there’s no guarantee they will buy or subscribe. That means you have a web traffic conversion problem
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