Driving people to your website is only half the battle. Once you get them there, how do you lead them to where you want them to go on your site? Having a well designed website will help give your users a great experience, find what they are looking for and be more inclined to lead [...]
Website & Landing Page Design Elements for Usability and SEO
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under SEO for Web Design, Search Engine Optimization, Web Content, Web Development Tuesday Aug 19, 20087 Places to Create Your Own Free Website
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Web Content Wednesday Aug 13, 2008Here are a bunch of great resources you can use to create your own free website with no programming experience necessary.
Google Sites allow you to create websites collaboratively. Making it simple for multiple users to add file attachments, information from other Google Apps, and creating new content to a website. Google Sites uses a user-friendly [...]
12 Ways To Keep People on Your Site Longer
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Web Content, Web Development Monday Aug 4, 2008Create a Visually Pleasing Design: Capture your audience by having a professional looking design. Use a color scheme that flows naturally and is not harsh on the eyes. Use appealing icons, buttons, calls to actions, and graphics to help draw the audience to important parts of your site.
Create a User Friendly Site Structure: Create a [...]
Eye Tracking Study: How People Consume Information on the Internet
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Web Content Wednesday Jul 23, 2008Writing for the internet has a totally different style than a typical PR release or article. They way people consume information on the internet is completely different as well. This post will go through some examples of different eye tracking studies to see how people look at certain websites. I will also give some pointers [...]
Formulating an Internet Marketing Strategy: Asking the Right Questions?
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Analytics, Web Content, Web Development Monday Jul 21, 2008It doesn’t matter if you are building a new website, conducting search engine optimization, PPC advertising, or a social media strategy, there are always going to be important questions that need to be answered by the client. Having detailed answers to these questions will help you formulate a much better strategy.
I broke up the questions [...]