Just before composing this post, I was flicking through YouTube. As always, I went looking for a particular clip and before I knew it, half my morning was gone. Yet despite clicking on a lot of videos, I only really watched the start, perhaps a minute or two, before being distracted by another [...]
Archive for the 'Usability' Category
How to appeal to web users with a shorter attention span than a goldfish
Published by April 1st, 2009 in Usability and Web Development. 1 CommentThe blurred line between what is SEO and what isn’t
Published by February 26th, 2009 in Blogging, Marketing, SEO, Social Media, Usability and Web Development. 2 CommentsJust read an interesting post on Ben Wilks’ Blog about SEO and Social Media.
Basically Ben comments on a thread over at WMW which indicates that social media is a waste of time and doesn’t yield a great deal of SEO value.
I both agree and disagree with this.
But before continuing, it’s important to understand what [...]
How to attract more visitors by keeping your staff happy
Published by August 22nd, 2008 in Usability and Web Development. 7 CommentsEveryone wants more people to click on their website and this is very important – after all, the more clicks you receive, the more sales and enquiries your likely to get, but what a lot of people don’t realise is that a website’s click-through rates can also have an impact on your search engine ranking. [...]
I often lose my car keys and when it comes to finding them, they always seem to turn-up in the least-likely place. You’d think that I’d learn from this and ensure I don’t lose them again… but no, it happens time and time again. The only comforting thought is that I know I’m not [...]
It’s not uncommon for SEOs to make recommendations which will improve the usability of a client’s website although will have little-to-no impact as far as the search engines are concerned.
I’m not talking about fixing the navigation structure, applying no-follows to certain pages to help sculpt the flow of linkjuice, converting image links to text where [...]


