It’s a well known fact that internet users, on average, spend less than a single minute on any given page unless there is a compelling reason for them to stay. This means that, when you’re planning your website design, you have to design with ease, and speed, of use in mind. Across the internet, the […]
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When it comes to hiring somebody to design a website for your business, you’re usually paying attention to the goals you’d like your website to achieve. In other words, bringing you business, and converting visitors into leads. But there are other important factors that have to be kept in mind as well, and a professional […]
Ever since their creation in the 1980’s, domain names and their resultant website addresses have been limited to the Latin alphabet, from A – Z, used by English speaking nations. In a ground-breaking decision on Friday however, Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, (a non-profit body that oversees web addresses and domain […]
For a long time, keyword density has been taken very seriously in search engine optimisation. Keyword density, for those who aren’t familiar with the term, refers to the number of times that your primary keyword appears in the content of a given page. (The primary keyword being the word for which you’d like to appear […]
Despite the recent announcement on meta descriptions by Google, we feel it’s important to mention that, regardless of what’s been said on the topic, meta tags are still important. After all, all Google said was that they don’t pay any attention to the meta keywords tag, when it comes to determining ranking. Now, for one […]
PageRank sculpting is the process of attempting to direct the way that PageRank flows within (and into and out of), your website. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm named after Google co-founder Larry Page, that assigns a numerical rank (from 0 to 10) to each element of a hyper-linked group of documents, to measure its […]
Although buying links for the purposes of manipulating search engine rankings is rightly frowned upon by Google, the search engine company has explicitly recognised that the buying and selling of links for advertising purposes is a recognised part of the economy of the internet. You can read what Google says about paid links here. If […]
As we all know by now, keywords are the words and phrases that users enter into search engines when they’re looking for something. When it comes to optimising your website, keywords are the phrases for which you’d like to appear in the search engine results when people are looking for your products or services. Because […]
According to a news report released today, Microsoft has gained the coveted right to index the hugely popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter. After lengthy discussions, the deal between the two was announced yesterday at a San Francisco technology conference, and from now on, Microsoft’s search engine Bing will become the new way to discover what people […]
According to a recent report by Canadian research company Sysomos, South Africa has become the tenth largest twitter user in the world. According to the report, SA accounts for 0.85% of the total global use of the popular micro-blogging platform, with Japan coming in at 11th place with 0.71%, the Philippines 12th with 0.64%, and […]