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New International Internet Addresses Approved

Robert Smith — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:22:49 +0000

The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world. The board of Icann voted at its annual meeting in Seoul to allow domain names in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts. More than half of the 1.6 billion people who use the internet speak [...]

How To Improve Online Shopping Cart Abandonment Rates

Robert Smith — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:22:12 +0000

If you operate an ecommerce website then the frequency of your shopping cart abandonment rates is likely to be high on your list of major frustrations. Imagine getting a customer all the way to your checkout page with a cart full of products or services – only to have them change their mind at the last [...]

Will Website Directory Submissions Help To Improve Your Search Engine Rankings?

Robert Smith — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:40:26 +0000

It is a well known and established fact that high rankings on Google and other search engines can only be achieved if a website has both optimised web page content and good quality inbound links. Having your website professionally optimised is a worthwhile investment and will ensure that your SEO efforts produce the best return for [...]

Does The Load Time Of Your Website Impact On Your Search Engine Rankings?

Robert Smith — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:45:08 +0000

Have you ever considered how the loading time of your web pages might impact on your search engine rankings? Both Google and Yahoo! have commented on this issue recently, so it might be a good time to take a closer look at how long it takes your web pages to load. Google’s position on the issue [...]

UK Broadband ‘Not Fit’ For Future

Robert Smith — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:08:32 +0000

A study of the global state of broadband has put the UK 25th out of 66 countries in terms of the quality of its networks. The research for Cisco found that countries such as Latvia and Bulgaria were better prepared than the UK for next-generation net applications. The UK was listed among countries whose broadband [...]

It’s A Google World, We Just Live In It!

Robert Smith — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:07:51 +0000

Google has a 60% share of search queries in the U.S., but that number is 67% worldwide, according to ComScore. In many top and growing internet countries, including Germany, Canada, Brazil, Turkey and Italy, Google has more than 80% of the search market. So, how are the search wars playing out abroad? Very well for Google, [...]

Are NoIndex And NoFollow Meta Tags Being Ignored By Bing?

Robert Smith — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:06:19 +0000

According to a recent post on WebProNews, Microsoft has admitted a problem with Bing whereby pages marked as NoIndex or NoFollow are being ignored by the ‘MSN Bot’ when crawling a website. NoIndex and NoFollow Meta Tags can be used to advise search engine spiders to avoid indexing specific web pages. There are a number of [...]

Benefits of Internet Banner Advertising Vs Search Engine Advertising

Robert Smith — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:36:39 +0000

Internet Banner Advertising and Search Engine Advertising are very different online marketing models. Search engine advertising (commonly referred to as pay per click advertising) offers a very basic form of presentation, in as much as the content of your advertisement is restricted to text only and a limit is placed on the maximum number of characters [...]

Official Google Video - How To Attract Additional Adsense Advertiser Spend

Robert Smith — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:15:36 +0000

This is final video from the Google webmaster educational series - “Speeding up in a Slowdown”. In this video you will hear tips from Christian Ashlock, a Google AdSense Optimisation team manager, about attracting additional advertiser spend. Christian manages an AdSense optimisation team at Google that works to help publishers get the most out of their [...]

Professional Web Page Optimisation and Link Popularity Tips

Robert Smith — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:10:04 +0000

In addition to optimising the individual pages of your website, for your targeted keywords, it is absolutely vital that you also improve the Link Popularity of your site, by securing one way links from as many external websites as possible. Ultimately it is your linking strategy that will deliver high rankings on Google and [...]