The URLs for your pages may seem like a jumble of words, letters, numbers and symbols, but their construction can have a significant impact on the success of your site. A search engine friendly URL is one that contains as…
The URLs for your pages may seem like a jumble of words, letters, numbers and symbols, but their construction can have a significant impact on the success of your site. A search engine friendly URL is one that contains as…
Not many companies will undertake their site’s redesign from a search engine optimisation point of view. In most cases, redesign is prompted by a company-wide branding change or a need for a fresh look. Many of the reasons for redesign…
Google is to limit the number of news articles users can read for free on its website. The search engine said it was changing its First Click Free programme so that readers would not be able to look at more…
Children will be taught how to protect themselves online through the 21st century equivalent of the Green Cross Code’s ‘Stop, Look, Listen’. Staying safe on the internet will become part of the school curriculum from September 2011 under new government…
Google has launched real-time search to give users access to up to the second information. The search giant said it will draw real-time data from over a billion pages on the web. The new feature will also include updates from…
Twitter, the phenomenon of social networking in just 140 words made popular by Stephen Fry and Sarah Brown has been voted the top English word this year. The word was more popular than Obama and H1N1 – the scientific name…
The bounce rate of a page is, just as it sounds, the number of times a user lands on a page, turns around, and promptly jumps back out of it. A high bounce rate is to be avoided. Unfortunately, just…
Too many businesses get in their own way when it comes to their website through bad design. Bad design isn’t always the ‘terrible graphics, too many primary colours’ kind. Often, it’s the ‘we spent thousands on this and we’re not…
The internet giant is about to launch a system offering free calls along with the mother of all handsets. Google is gearing up for an all-out assault on the mobile-phone market that will include a new, Google-branded handset and the…