We all use the internet every day, conducting searches, finding new sites, visiting our favorite haunts. That does make you knowledgeable. One thing you may not have thought of is that pretty much every site you visit follows certain conventions that allow you to get around, even if you haven’t been there before. For example, [...]
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What to Ask When Designing a Website
If you don’t have a technology background, knowing what you need in a website can be a stressful thing. You can read articles online and try to prepare for your meeting with your web designer, but ultimately you and he both know that only one of you is really in charge of the material. So [...]
Why Ugly Sites are Successful
Have you ever noticed that Ma & Pa Kettle websites that were done on geocities during the bicentennial still rank? Have you ever bought something from a really hideous website with terrible graphics that looked like a school project by a 10 year old? The site was so primitive surely thieves ran it. Maybe you [...]
Deleting Link Spam
by Ellen on March 2, 2010 in Website Stuff
If you own a WordPress site, you know about link spam. That’s the comments you get on your posts which are designed simply to embed a link back to the commenter’s website to help them rank. Link spam is not just an annoyance, it has the potential to hurt your site’s rankings. Here we’ll take [...]