Do Usability Experts Still Fail Themselves on World Usability Day?
* In 2008 I celebrated my first world usability day by pointing out usability mistakes usability experts commit. Fast forward to 2010 and what did I see? They still failed. Now it’s another 5 years later and finally… they get…
CSS Tricks for Better SEO
* Are you optimizing websites? Then you probably know it already. It’s often really difficult to build websites for both users and Google. There are even two separate disciplines by now to deal with it: user experience or short UX…
How to Find a Tagline for Your Blog or Business Website
OK, you have a website. You have products or services you offer and/or actual content you publish as well. You have a brand name logo call to action in the best case (something like “subscribe now”). What’s missing? A tagline…
10 Blogging Mistakes Most Bloggers Make
* Sometimes it takes years of blogging to notice your most obvious mistakes. I’ve been blogging privately since 2003, then professionally since 2005! I still blog for clients! By now I have made most mistakes you can make as a…
SEO 2.0 Definitions: It’s about People, Self-Spreading and Being Reputable
SEO 2.0 doesn’t exist and I’m glad it doesn’t! OK, SEO 2.0 doesn’t exist according to Wikipedia. It existed – someone wrote an excellent article about it – but the Wikipedia censors deleted it. I’m glad. I prefer to spread…
User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps
* What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I’ll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you need to follow. One of the basic best…
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Stupid X-Twitter Misteaks [sic!]: It’s NOT a Link List
It’s 2023 and business people still make common social media management mistakes! They often use X-Twitter the wrong way! Ouch! That really hurts! Why? I’ve seen these stupid misteaks [sic!] ever since I started using the service back in 2008….
7 Reasons to Hide Posts from Feed Subscribers + Front Page Visitors
A WordPress plugin that removes posts from the blog feed is what I’ve been searching for like forever. I finally was successful. I’ve found Stealth Publish. The official feature description is even more promising: “Prevent specified posts from being featured…
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…
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…
7 SEO 2 Techniques Obama Used to Score on the Web
What is SEO 2? It’s not just about getting found via search engines! It is a term that encompasses modern techniques of making a message heard online. It’s also using any feasible way of reaching an audience by use of…
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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…
The Most Annoying Social Media Mistakes
Over the years and on many different social media sites I have seen the same mistakes over and over again. Please! At least try not to repeat these…
10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce at any Rate!
Bounce rate is the number or rather percentage of people who leave your site almost instantly after taking a quick look. People do not click or perform any other action on your site when they bounce! Make sure to prevent…
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…
