What Does Your Website Say About You?

Immediate opinions and impressions are formed the moment a new visitor arrives at your website. Even though the first impression comes within just a few seconds, it can take a very long time to reverse a negative first impression, if you’re given the chance at all. In a competitive marketplace a bad first impression is [...]

10 Tips to Retain More of What You Read Online

In today’s society most of us read a considerable amount of information online on a daily or weekly basis. Whether you do business online, maintain a blog, read for your job, or just read for pleasure, I’m sure you could benefit from retaining more of what you read. The internet is a vast source of [...]

69 Tools to Monitor, Measure, and Track Your Website

PAGE ANALYSIS:

SEOmoz Page Strength Tool – A useful tool that gives an overall look at the strength of a page.
Sitening’s SEO Analyzer – See if your pages are structured to achieve high search engine rankings.
Self SEO’s Page Speed Checker – Test the load time of your pages and your competitor’s pages.
GoogleRankings.com [...]

An Interview with Jon Phillips of Freelance Folder

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to interview Jon Phillips, who runs Freelance Folder and Smart Wealthy Rich. Freelance Folder is a multi-author blog that focuses on issues related to freelancing, entrepreneurial topics, and working from home. Only about 3 months old, Freelance Folder has experienced huge growth recently (which you’ll read [...]

Weekly Links – 10/13/07

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.3, so if you tried to access the blog and had problems, that was the cause. Everything seems to be working, but if you notice anything unusual please leave a comment or contact me. Thanks for your help.
Here are this weeks links:
10 Great Bloggers Tell What Mistakes They Made as [...]

5 Niche Social Media Sites for Web Designers

Social media can be a huge source of traffic, but making it to the front page of a major site like Digg is difficult, and the traffic is not usually as targeted as many other forms of traffic. For these reasons niche social media sites are a great solution. While traffic volume may not be [...]

Organizational Tips for Bloggers

Keep an idea journal. When you need to sit down and write a new post you’ll have plenty of ideas.
Have a few backup posts ready for when you have interruptions. Eventually you’ll run into times where it’s impossible to find time for a new post.
Set aside time each week for brainstorming and idea generation. Creating [...]

5 Skills That Boost Your Design Career

This is a guest post from Chris Garrett. Chris is an internet marketing consultant from the UK. You can read more at his blog, chrisg.com – Subscribe and receive a free ebook.
While I have never been a web designer, over the years I have commissioned a good deal of web design and worked very closely [...]

SEO vs. SMO

Search engine optimization (SEO) and social media optimization (SMO) are two of the bigger concerns for webmasters and bloggers, as they can both have substantial impacts on the amount of traffic a website or blog receives. But does optimizing your site for search engines hinder your SMO efforts (and vice versa) or can they co-exist? [...]

What Makes Good Blog Design?

If you like getting design inspiration by looking at excellent blog designs, you’ll love our new gallery site Blog Design Heroes.
As you surf through the internet you’re bound to come across certain designs that you love and some that you hate. But good blog design has a few unique elements when compared to the design [...]