One of the biggest challenges that online businesses face today is maintaining relevance in the eyes of the search engines, especially Google. With Google controlling more than 90% of the search traffic in the US alone, it’s not surprising that the most important goal of any web-based marketing strategy is to be number one in Google. It’s a well-established principle that on-site SEO is one... 

keyword analysis guide Nows the time before september to christmas rush to start reviewing your sites keywords. Here is a handy guide on what to do. http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/right-keyword-analysis-website/ VN:F [1.9.3_1094]please wait...Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)VN:F [1.9.3_1094]Rating: +1 (from 1 vote) Read More →

Bing Webmaster Tools - Traffic Summary Bimg/Microsoft have updated their webmaster tools suite to match Google’s offering this morning. A quick look at the features shows that they are now giving siomiliar information to what Google also provide but with the addition of fancy graphs using Microsoft silverlight. Its a big jump from their previous offering, which did not provide webmasters with... 

Google’s latest search algorithm update VN:F [1.9.3_1094]please wait...Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)VN:F [1.9.3_1094]Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Read More →

One of the lesser-known jewels of HTML 5 is link prefetching. The idea is to extend the time-honored concept of image preloading to HTML content (and without any messy AJAX code). Here’s how it works: You add a line like this to your page: <link rel="next" href="page2.html"> Then the browser automatically downloads page2.html in a background process as soon as the user’s computer is idle.... 

Matt Cutts recently reviewed Googles own websites for how SEO friendly their sites were. He discovered that they do not actually have an SEO team dedicated to any of their sites and were pretty poor at following their own rules for good site content. VN:F [1.9.3_1094]please wait...Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)VN:F [1.9.3_1094]Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Read More →

A great article from Direct Creative Blog about setting up your businesses facebook page and the differences between a group and a fan page. http://www.directcreative.com/blog/facebook-fan-page VN:F [1.9.3_1094]please wait...Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)VN:F [1.9.3_1094]Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Read More →

Zone 1 Creative recently went live with a new online store built in X-Cart call the Guitar Amps & Pedal Co. GAPco.co.uk. The site replaced audiotoyz.co.uk and guitars-amps-uk.co.uk and so had instance traffic from these already indexed sites. One of the first things that I did was to install the XML Sitemaps module from magenticONE and also upload the froogle file to Google base so the products... 

Jason Sadler came up with a plan for wearing a different T-shirt everyday for 365 days. He was sponsored $1 for each day by a company that wanted their logo on his chest. That make $365 dollars for the year. It was so successful that he has now teamed up with a friend and over two time zones. The 2010 calendar is now 244 days booked out of 365. Check out the site and if you want to sponsor him. VN:F... 

In a recent interview Matt Cutts said that your sites loading speed will be a huge factor towards the way google ranks it. Google and many people at google believe the web/internet should be fast and so they should reward sites that load quicker and are optimised through reuse of code and parrallel loading. According to Cutts, speed hasn’t played a role in rankings in the past, but that may very...