Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
A lot of time passed since my post on calls-to-action but I am still getting comments and requests from people who are willing to get their site visitors to act. One of the recent comments was about optimizing your site for phone calls: how to place your company number to ...
Category: Usability | 22 Comments »
Monday, May 18th, 2009
CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Human Apart”. In a broader sense, CAPTCHA is defined as:
Type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process involves one computer (a ...
Category: Usability | 46 Comments »
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
I've lately had to deal with a huge database-driven website. What troubled me most was the huge navigation menus - and I am wracking my brain over the ways to optimize it both for users and search engine bots. It is always the hardest - to organize huge number of ...
Category: On-Page SEO, Usability | 29 Comments »
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
A few days ago I tested this blog homepage with one handy tool I recommend trying: Five Second Test. That was both fun and useful. Now what I did:
got a screenshot of the blog home page;
filled in the form;
uploaded the screenshot there;
posted the generated link at Twitter and asked ...
Category: SEO Tools, Usability, Website Design | 11 Comments »
Monday, May 19th, 2008
I mainly search for images online when I need a web design inspiration or if I want to decorate a post of mine. Some recent image search engines and search engine applications seem really impressive to me. They offer a wide variety of interfaces, filtering and sorting options that I ...
Category: Search Engines, Usability | 18 Comments »
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Optimize your images for search engines:
Keywords in alt text, text around the image, image name, page title;
Preferred image formatting - jpg;
Separate SE accessible image folder;
Image freshness. (SEW suggests re-uploading your images to keep them fresh);
Enabled image search option at Google webmaster tool.
Reasonable image file size (see the discussion at WW)
Limited ...
Category: On-Page SEO, Social Media Marketing, Usability | 67 Comments »
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
[Off topic] Mark Dykeman has just posted an interview with me so I decided to share it with my readers right away, please check it out: Catch the brainwaves with SEO Smarty!
My previous post on calls-to-action attracted a number of comments asking for advice on my readers' current website ...
Category: SEO Tools, Usability, Website Design | 6 Comments »
