Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?
Image: Brick Obama by ~emeph Immediately after Barack Obama has been sworn in as the new president of the United States the Whitehouse.gov website has been relaunched. Some of the most important aspects of this change are: It has a…
7 Optimization Techniques I Learned from Playing With my 7 Year Old Daughter
Working on a computer is often frustrating when you have kids. They come over to see you sitting all day at the same place staring into a bright light source and wonder why you sit there. This Sunday though was…
The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients
Are you a graphic, industrial or web designer? Do you want your website to look good? Do you ignore, dismiss or forget findability and usability? Well, I can help. Designers often do not implement the simplest website tweaks for more…
Quick Guide to Social Media and WordPress Categories vs Tags
* One of the most annoying issues on social media, both from a user and a webmaster perspective is the often faulty categorization by users. Many people mix topics and categories in a way nobody really can appreciate. Why does…
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The Best Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate [CRO]
* Every website or blog has a purpose! It can be it a sale, a subscription or simply conveying the message. Achieving this goal is called conversion. The process of doing it is the discipline of Conversion (Rate) Optimization or…
Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog
* I’m shocked! Not only do bloggers waste time with meta tags although most of them are worthless for Google, bloggers hurt themselves using meta tags. It does not get better it seems it gets worse. Some people even commit…
Google Suggest Effects on SEO, Search Usage and Business
Who the hell is the Gossip Girl? Google Suggest offers users possible search queries based on the number of searches and results. When you start typing your search query Google suggest popular keywords or phrases to search for. Ever since…
The 10 Worst Findability Mistakes in UX + Web Development
UX (user experience) designers & Web developers often focus on and use All these things are perfectly OK usually… …unless they are executed at the expense of findability. Yet they often do. Here are examples of how to do it…
Short URL Tools
What to do when you need short URLs (concise Internet/Web addresses or URL forwarding) for Twitter or elsewhere? Either you use the proprietary t.co shortener by Twitter itself or bit.ly where .ly stands for Libya to keep the fuss at…
Top 10 URL Design Failures of Famous Websites
Famous painting, image by Fabrizio Verrecchia, but no clue in the URL: https://unsplash.com/photos/bv60QyW78Os Do you know what the websites of the New York Times World Bank WordPress.com PHP.net and others have in common? Their Internet addresses aka URLs suck! Right…
Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes
* URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your website address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes all over the…
SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) Demand Skyrockets
Google Trends is a wonderful tool to find out what the market really demands. One problem is ambiguity though. It happens when a term means more than one thing. It happens to acronyms quite often. I compared SEM to SEO…
How to Get Attention Blogging Part-Time
In the past I often made a common blogging mistake. It was trying to raise hell or be spectacular to get attention from readers. You really have to be to get engagement organically. Using hatebait to get there by way…
WordPress Theme Customization: How to Simplify like a Web Dev
Most WP themes need heavy customization or rather fixing. It’s bug fixing but also removing all the visual flaws only a Web developer can notice.
10 Coding Guidelines for Perfect Findability and Web Standards
Perfect findability and Web standards can be achieved with the same means when it comes to coding. Thus I compiled a very simple list for you to improve your overall website and content findability. These are 10 coding guidelines for…
