Category Archives: Web Design Tips

On page optimization of your website is critical for success when ranking your website.  It doesn’t matter how many backlinks you build or how much content you have if you are hurting yourself with poor on page optimization.  In fact, it is estimated that on page optimization accounts for 20% of ranking factors for Google.  [...]

Looking for some more ways to improve your SEO tasks?   Google may have just what you need to make your life easier.  Here are 5 of my favorite Google SEO tools to improve your website: 1.  Follow Finder This tool analyzes following and follower lists on Twitter to find people you might want to follow. [...]

As a web designer, there is nothing worse than discovering that your website looks great in IE7 but looks horrible in another version.  To test your website in different versions of IE,  check out IE Tester.   IE Tester is a great browser compatibility check software that tests your website in IE versions 5.5 to [...]

Do you want to dominate Google and increase your brand exposure? Drip feed unique content to hundreds of blogs through ARTICLERANKS, a revolutionary new service that gives you hundreds of backlinks on real blogs that people actually read. Other advantages of this powerful from of article marketing include: • Dominate the SERPs within a month. [...]

If you haven’t already heard, Google is now counting site speed as a ranking factor for websites.  There are two primary ways Google now measures speed: how a page responds to Googlebot and the load time which is measured by the Google Toolbar.  If you want to find out how fast your site is loading, [...]

Want to get some free backlinks to your website quickly and easily?  Go to http://www.megafoo.com/free-links/ and submit your homepage URL in the box. Your URL will then be submitted to 45 sites which includes Whois, Alexa, Robtex and other HTML validator sites. Click on your directory page and you will see what sites your domain [...]

If you want to understand how visitors see your website on different browsers, check out Google’s new tool called “Browser Size.”  Browser Size is based on a sample of data from visitors to Google.  Based on a given point in the browser, the tool will tell you what percentage of users can see it. This [...]

Looking for a way to promote your business and get backlinks for free? Check out Article Alley, an article syndication site which offers free articles from thousands of authors for use on websites. Authors can post free articles with keyword backlinks to the directory database without any membership and those looking for Free Content can [...]

You have just created your online store with thousands of products, beautiful pictures and keyword rich descriptions. But for some reason, you aren’t converting as many sales as you would like. It could be the product you are selling, but more than likely, your store does not have optimum usability. Here are some ways to [...]

.htaccess may be a simple ASCII text file, but it’s a powerful tool used on an Apache Web Server which can alter the configuration of your files and directories. With some simple rewrite rules in your .htaccess file, you can do many advanced features from creating custom error pages to setting timezones and emails. Here [...]