Link-Building Policy for Bing

It’s easy for everyone to get caught up in obsessing about how to optimise your site & build links for Google, when trying to market through search. That’s certainly a wise thing to do, considering Google totally dominates the search market. But, there are still other search engines that some people are using, so it is wise to make sure your site is performing to the best of its ability in those too!Obviously the other two engines are Yahoo and Bing and whilst Yahoo is seemingly declining fast,...

Google Sidewiki entry by SEO Expert

Banners have been a major part of the World Wide Web world since its early days. Copywriters burn the midnight oil looking for new designs that will grab the visitor’s attention and compel him to click on their banner. This article discusses some of the most successful banner designs.Teasing your curiosity“Do Not Click Here”. How many of you have seen this slogan in a banner? What did you do when you first saw it? If you are like most people, when you first saw it, you clicked on it. What makes...

eCommerce Website Design

250 Free Business CardseCommerce websites have their own unique character that is designed to lead the visitor to one simple task – make an online purchase. A web designer needs to consider a variety of online selling principles while designing an eCommerce website. In this article we will try to take a look at some of the major design aspects that you must have in an eCommerce website.Many of you are probably already asking why eCommerce website design is different from any other website design....

Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Design

Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Designby Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.comI was recently asked by a visitor to thesitewizard.com to take a look at her company's website, designed by a university student. I will not give the URL for that site, partly to protect the innocent, and partly because by the time you read this, it'll probably have been modified.The site was heavy in its use of graphics with images adorning most parts of the page layout, to provide curved borders...

Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Design

Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Visibility in Web Designby Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.comI was recently asked by a visitor to thesitewizard.com to take a look at her company's website, designed by a university student. I will not give the URL for that site, partly to protect the innocent, and partly because by the time you read this, it'll probably have been modified.The site was heavy in its use of graphics with images adorning most parts of the page layout, to provide curved borders...

Is Your Website Design Driving Away Your Customers? Some Basic Usability Tips for Commercial Websites

Following my article on Appearance, Usability and Search Engine Friendliness in Web Design where I discussed the importance of looking at the usability and search engine visibility of a website, I have received countless messages from visitors to thesitewizard.com asking me to review their website. While I do not have time to answer such requests individually, I decided that an article outlining some glaring usability flaws that I have found in a number of websites in general would be helpful. This...

Seven Easy Ways to Annoy Visitors to Your Website: A Satire

1. Place some (or all of) your content in a small frame and force your visitors to read the content through that window. Don't worry about what constitutes "small" here, since most of the time, even if you create a big frame, it'll be considered too small by most visitors. This trick has a high annoyance value since your visitors have to view the information through that small little box and scroll continuously to see the text while the rest of the browser window is filled with information...