Some time ago Jack Osborne and I decided to sped up the current Hobo site to see if increasing page download speed had a positive impact on ranking, or the amount of traffic Google sent to your site. I left this article in drafts while I monitored any ranking benefits. At the end of last [...]
Add Valid Google Plus Button To Your Website
June 6th, 2011 |
The new Google Plus +1 is available to add your website here, and you’ll likely see on loads of websites from this point on. Rumours are – Google *may* use these signals when ranking search results (though we’ve heard that before) – and I thought this Tweet from Google was useful advice for web designers [...]
A Pop Up Window Sucks But Doubles Conversion Rates
March 28th, 2011 |
Pop ups suck, everybody seems to agree. I carried out an experiment to see if pop ups work on this site to convert more visitors to subscribers. I used this WordPress pop-up plugin (aff) on my blog, and I actually tested it out a few months ago when I didn’t blog for a few months and [...]
IE Test – Check how Website Looks in Different Versions Of Internet Explorer
November 22nd, 2010 |
Test IE – If you are a website designer, you might want to test your web design and see how it looks in different versions of Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer. You’ll especially want to test how your new web page looks in IE6! The most common versions of IE are: IE 8 IE 7 IE [...]
HTML5 SEO Advice From Google Employee
October 18th, 2010 |
Interesting SEO advice for HTML5 web developers – advice from John Mu of Google in Google webmaster forum: In general, our crawlers are used to not being able to parse all HTML markup – be it from broken HTML, embedded XML content or from the new HTML5 tags. Our general strategy is to wait to [...]
