Published: March 8th, 2010
Best Practice SEO dictates that you need good meta information as it is essential for SEO. Two tags to focus on are title tags and meta descriptions. Make sure they are descriptive and most importantly, relevant to the content on the website.
If you do have duplicate meta descriptions on your website, you will most likely get a warning in Google Webmaster Tools. Take this as a gentle nudge towards getting into the good habit of having a unique description for each page. After all, this is the summary snippet underneath your link on the search engine results page. The rule of thumb is to keep these under 150 characters in order to have the full sentence visible on the SERP.
Published: March 4th, 2010
Notice a little star next to your search results this morning? Google announced yesterday that this new bookmarking feature will be available for all globablly signed in users.
Published: March 3rd, 2010
X-Cart is one of many shopping cart solutions available on the net (we’ve already worked with Magento and CubeCart) and recent developments in the Blueclaw e-commerce team has enabled us to work with this shopping cart solution and test its capabilities for one of our clients.
Yes, the client may consider using online shopping cart solutions like Bigcartel (up to 100 products only) and Shopify (up to 50, 000 products only at 699USD per month) and think these may be a simpler solution but is it really cost effective?
“Why spend 700USD a month just to keep the site running when you can buy a shopping cart software yourself and get it customized and have full control over it for much less? Isn’t the point of an online store to reduce overheads as much as possible and concentrate more on selling?”
Like all ecommerce solutions, X-Cart has its own pros and cons but right now I’m going to talk about the features that I believe will help clients with
- large inventories
- medium to large customer base (dealing with delivery and returns)
- utilizing different payment gateways
- run affiliate schemes
- and desire a fully customized, stylish and professional shopping website
Published: March 3rd, 2010
It sounds like a good idea – Bing will donate 5p for every 10 qualifying searches to Sport Relief, but isn’t donating money supposed to be easy? Instead of a straightforward process of raising money every time you use Bing to search, Microsoft has disregarded the 64% of users who are browsing the Internet using Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. To participate in this scheme, you must use Internet Explorer, download their “Giving Counter” and then rack up the searches using Bing. It makes the whole affair very much tied in with Microsoft and brings to mind the recent news about offering browser choices.
Published: March 2nd, 2010
I had a chat a few days ago with a fellow SEO counterpart who let me know a quick trick when using Yahoo! Site Explorer. This method allows you to filter the number of referring domains from the total number of backlinks pointing to a web site.
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