Going live today are thousands of landing pages. You know those pages when you click on a link from an email that you receive, or a "sponsored list"/ad from a website or search engine. Many of these landing pages will be well done, but others will not. Today we will look at one example of a landing page that is going live today, to give you an idea of what to look for in a good landing page. This page loads fast! In fact, in our testing it displays under a half a second, and is finished … [Read more...]
posted on August 9, 2008 by
How important is search ranking?
photo credit: tj scenes Just how important is your search engine ranking? Well consider that in 2002, about one-third of all users typically searched for something each day. Now in 2008, a new high of just under one half (49%) are searching daily for something on the Internet, according to the latest study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. It is an interesting to note, and see that it is also growing at a faster rate than other activities which people might do on the … [Read more...]
posted on April 21, 2008 by
Keeping up with other’s blogs
As blogs make it easier to publish more information, the process of finding information becomes more difficult. This makes keeping up with the Blogs harder than keeping up with the Jones! Consider one of two options to keeping up with the feeds: Check and read every blog/web site of interest to you all the time (daily), wasting all of your time and energy doing so. Ignore the blogs and use a search engine when ever you need information - but now you don't keep up with things … [Read more...]
posted on April 20, 2008 by
Blog Examples in a Website
In the last article, we looked at why you would want to use a blog on your web site. We mentioned that people can either use a blog as their web site, or simply add it in addition to their web site. We even used GM's Fastlane blog as an example of a corporate blog that you may not expect. Obviously GM, a manufacture of cars, is not the technology work horse you would expect when you think of other companies which might blog (like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and others). Obviously, the amount of … [Read more...]