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, 200812 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 [...]
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 [...]
Your Website SEO Checkup: Part 1 of 8 - Search Engine Friendly Site Structure
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Search Engine Optimization, Web Development Tuesday Jun 24, 2008Probably the most important part of Search Engine Optimization is making sure that your website is search engine friendly. When I say search engine friendly, I mean that when search engines “crawl” your site, they are able to read all of the content, links, and pages within your site.
Big NoNo’s for Search Engines
Using Flash, Images, [...]
Your Website SEO Checkup: 8 Part Series
Posted by Mark Thompson | Under Search Engine Optimization, Web Development Tuesday Jun 24, 2008Part 1: Search Engine Friendly Site Structure
NoNo’s for Search Engines
Using a Text Navigation
Creating Static Pages
Descriptive URL’s
Internal Linking Structure
Part 2: Keyword Research
Initial Keyword List
Analytics Data
Keyword Research Tool
Analyze Your Master Keyword List
Test In PPC
Implementing Those Keywords
Part 3: Website Usability
Initial Keyword List
Design
Navigation
Functionality
Content Layout
Call To Action
Part 4: Content Optimization
Types of Content
Optimizing Your Content
Keyword Density
Anchor [...]