Fonts Do Matter

With the internet growing at an enormous rate every day, websites are indeed in stiff competition. Most businesses now opt to go online hoping to raise public awareness of their products and services and improve sales as well. It is, therefore, of utmost importance to give attention to the details you put in in your website- content, graphics, photos, list of categories, etc. Improving your site's readability is one sure way to get the attention of web users and prospective clients and keep them coming back. First thing to ... 0 Comments

Tumblr as an SEO Tool?

There are so many social media slash blogging slash microblogging sites today that sometimes, one just has to stop and think about it all. When it comes to SEO, what works and what doesn't work? What is necessary and what is just a blip in the radar? Here's something for you to think about: is it worth using Tumblr for SEO? Recently, Tumblr has received a lot of attention because of their services being down for extended periods of time. (They have addressed this issue by taking on an ... 0 Comments

SEO and Efficiency

SEO is a job that requires constant attention to any possible effects of Google’s frequent algorithm changes on the websites you maintain. Most days it is pretty boring looking at all the stats but some days sudden changes in PR, whether for the good or bad, can surprise you. If you manually check the stats of each website you maintain though it can be time-consuming and since most of the time there are really no major events happening that time consumed is frankly not worth it. This is why it is very important that as an SEO you learn to ... 0 Comments

The JPEG Advantage

As vital as the content in any website are the graphics that web developers use. In creating a website, the trick is to use small graphics meaning just the right size- not too big and not too small. This should be so to enable the graphics to load more quickly when users open a certain web page. Wouldn't it be nice to see both the contents and the graphics of a website in just one click rather than wait for seconds or even minutes to view the photos? So, what's ... 0 Comments

A Rundown Of Google Analytics

Google Analytics is an excellent solution for all the website related needs, starting from the source which brought the visitors to your site to how they interacted with your website. Hence, it provides good results as to how the site should be designed/ modified so as to attract more visitors or how to do better marketing for your product online. Some of the features of Google Analytics are given below. Firstly, it is much easier to use. With the special AdWords feature, Google provides more flexibility with the keywords and ... 0 Comments

Generating RSS Feeds for Your Blog

Blogs subscriptions are one of the things RSS feeds are most used for. In fact because of the popularity of using RSS feeds for blogs subscriptions a lot of blogging tools have a built-in function or feature for automatically generating RSS feeds or Atom feeds (in the case of blogger) so that their bloggers won't have to bother themselves with the how-tos of making an RSS feed. This means that as a blogger if you are using one of the common blogging tools all you need to do is indicate in the settings that you want an ... 0 Comments

Using Google Alerts to Fight Hackers

Many times web owners find that their website has been hacked a little too late. The reason for this is usually simple – no one really has that much time to spend checking and their rechecking their site very frequently to guard against signs of hacking. This is especially true if you’ve had your site for sometime and haven’t experienced much trouble and so get complacent. Thanks to Google Alerts we have one of the most convenient ways of knowing if a hacker has got to your site. All you have to do is use Google to monitor queries for ... 0 Comments

Subscription Sharing at Bloglines

One of the things that Bloglines likes to boast about is the easy sharing of your subscriptions to your friends and just about everyone else who uses Bloglines. There are actually two ways you can share your subscription to everyone - though your blogroll and through the Bloglines website itself. Blogger's, even non-Bloglines bloggers, use blogrolls, which are simply lists that link to other blogs. Bloglines makes it very easy to add links to your blogroll by providing a wizard that generates a small piece of HTML that you can add to your blog that ... 0 Comments

More on Bloglines

There are basically four things you can do when using Bloglines. 1. Subscribe to blogs, email groups, and websites. 2. Publish your own blog. 3. Search billions of articles. 4. Share your favorites (subscription favorites) to your friends. However there's much much more that Bloglines has to offer. According to their website this is the list of their key features: * All-in-one Blog and news feed search, online subscriptions, news reader, blog publishing and social sharing tools * Available in 10 languages * Mobile version optimized for hand-held computers and cell phones * Email subscriptions help manage your e-newsletter traffic * Package ... 0 Comments

Joining Bloglines

Like in most sites that offer good services nowadays, it is very easy to join Bloglines. All you need to do to create your account is click on the Register link found at the top right portion of the page or the big Sign Up link on the middle of the page, fill in the required information, make sure you've read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and click on the register button. Of course you'll need to confirm your registration by clicking on the link they send you at your email but other ... 0 Comments