Archive for the 'Usability' Category

How to appeal to web users with a shorter attention span than a goldfish

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 [...]

The blurred line between what is SEO and what isn’t

Just 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

Everyone 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 Can’t find my car keys or your website

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 [...]

Is onsite SEO simply a usability audit?

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 [...]




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