Published April 25th, 2007 in Design, Marketing
Successful websites are user-focused. In order to develop and maintain a user-focused website you will need to consider and analyze your target market. Ask yourself the 22 questions below to identify your target market and develop a plan to meet their needs with your website.
Demographics
1 – What is their age?
2 – What is their [...]
Published April 4th, 2007 in Design
The appearance of a website can be greatly enhanced by quality photographs and images. Fortunately, there are a number of resources online that will help you to find quality photos to use on your website, and some are even free.
The following websites provide free stock photography:
Stock.Xchng
FreeImages.co.uk
FreePhotosBank
DreamsTime
YotoPhoto.com is a search engine dedicated to helping users find [...]
Published in Links
The blog at TechCrunch has an article about an upcoming version of Firefox that will include a number of features designed to work with social media websites. Check out the full article at TechCruch.
Published April 3rd, 2007 in Links, SEO
SEOmoz, one of the leaders in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), released an updated version of an extremely useful resource today. On their website, seomoz.org, they provide a document that covers the factors involved in search engine rankings. The original version was realeased in 2005 and the updated version is now available. This resource combines the [...]
Published in Links, SEO
Google’s webmaster tools now includes more detailed information for website owners about their inbound links. Google is reporting the anchor text of inbound links. For information, see the post on the Google Webmaster’s Blog.
Published April 1st, 2007 in Blogging
If you are an aspiring blogger you can learn a lot by studying blogs that have been successful. Once you have identified what makes them successful, you simply need to apply the same principles to your own blog. To make your research easier, we have listed ten traits of successful blogs.
1. Consistent Posting
In order to [...]