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How Often Should Your Website be Redesigned?
There's no hard and fast rule as to how often to redesign a website. As web designers, we have to resist the urge to suggest "you should redesign it NOW!" While there's no set schedule for a redesign, here are some factors you should consider in deciding when it is time to redesign your web site. 1. Does your site look out of date, especially compared to your competitors? Web trends change more often than clothing fashions. If your site looks as dated as Herb Tarlek's plaid suit (Google that name if you don't remember the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati), you need a redesign. 2. Are you on your second or third computer since a redesign? If yes, you need a redesign-a site that works on Internet Explorer 6 is not state of the art by any stretch of the imagination. 3. Does your site's code make your...
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Google SEO Ranking Factors [infographic]
In order to rank web pages in its search engine, Google uses an algorithm that contains over 200 factors. What that means is that when a search is entered into the search box, Google quickly scans its index of pages to find pages that may match that query. It then ranks them from one to millions in terms of which pages to display to the searcher first. Search Engine Optimization is the art and science of influencing the rankings so your page ranks higher. The following infographic shows how the Google uses the ranking factors to assess a site (and what those factors are). Below the infographic, I explain it in more detail. The Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors Below is the table of ranking factors from Search Engine Land. It's one useful framework for understanding the importance of the different factors. Click to see a larger version.Click here...
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WordPress usage amongst the Top 100000 Websites - Infographics
WordPress is undoubtedly the most used CMS (Content Management Systems) around the world. When it begin, it was specifically for Blogs and similar website, but it transformed greatly to other domain of the web including E-Commerce which is a hot selling thing on the web. Facts about WordPress: 11.2% of the Internet website run on WordPress.5+ Million downloads for just the Wordpres version 3.2 has been recorded.Top websites including, WordPress.com itself, Mashable, Tech Crunch and even XDA-developers use WordPress as the underlying CMS For more information on WordPress check below...
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Awesome Facts and Figures on the Rise of the Social Mobile Web - INFOGRAPHIC
Written by Jeff BullasI had the privilege of speaking at the BE-Wizard Web Conference in Italy last week. It was a tribute to Enrico and his team at Titanka, to witness and participate in an international class conference, that in only 4 years have taken an initially small event, with only 30 people attending in 2009 to having an audience of over 600 people in 2012. After attending the conference over the 2 days at the sea side holiday resort city of Rimini, I decided to grab the opportunity to take a vacation break and explore the sights, history and gastronomic delights of Italy.The trip has also been an educational and invigorating exercise in blogging while travelling and keeping up the discipline of maintaining and monitoring my social networks while on the move by train and motel. Most of the trains in Italy have power, so the challenge of ensuring...
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WordPress SEO: How to Optimize Your WordPress Site
WordPress has made it very easy for small businesses to have a website that is easy to update and maintain, but do you know how to optimize your WordPress site so that it has the best chance of appearing at the top of your customers' search results? The process is similar to optimizing any website, but with a WordPress installation you can customize many of your pages' SEO elements, as well as automating them to cut down on the time it takes to post a new item to your site. WordPress vs. WordPress.com Templates Having your blog hosted at WordPress.com limits the changes you can make to your page template. But more importantly, it restricts your SEO. Having your site hosted on WordPress.com only benefits WordPress.com in terms of backlinks generated. Make sure that from day one you're in control by hosting your blog on your own domain. That way...
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The 4 Ps of Search Engine Optimization
If there is any one reality to SEO, it's that there are winners and losers. There are certain qualities that are necessary for any winning SEO strategy that can be broken down into the 4 Ps of SEO: proactive, persistence, perseverance, and patience. Proactive Being proactive is fundamental to being a good SEO for a couple of key reasons: Latency Effect Between Work and Results Any SEO work done today likely won't affect traffic or revenue today. When it comes to SEO there is a latency effect as new changes to your website or your off-site profile (backlinks, social activities, etc.) get indexed by the search engines and filter into the SERPs. How long the latency period is depends on the situation. If you put up a new targeted page on your site that gets indexed quickly, you could indeed start to see some new traffic from new keywords within...
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