How Microsoft Made the Web Ugly & What to Do About it
* This is a sad story with a happy ending about the way Microsoft has made the Web ugly and what to do about it. You have to act now though or you lose readers and customers. In a more…
SEO 2.0 Goes Responsive Web Design with Origin
SEO 2.0 goes responsive web design with the free WordPress theme Origin by AlienWP. I kept my last theme for about 5 years by now and would even have sticked with it but it didn’t display properly on smartphones and…
Readability Advice: Lorem Ipsum Yourself! I’m Not a Dummy
* One of the most important things on the Web is readability. Despite that to this day many webmasters, bloggers and even web designers neglect it. Recently an SEO blogger I asked to improve his post readability so that my…
Best SEO Website Design: SEO Companies Using Dark Backgrounds
SEO.com, USA Datadial, UK: A London Based Digital Web Agency iCrossing UK Voltier Creative, USA Sebcreation, France Union Room, UK RICG, USA alt design, UK …
Non-Profit SEO Resources
Non-profit SEO was on my mind for some time at least as long as I have known the Graphic Alliance, a social designers network of companies and individuals dedicated to social campaigns, non-profit advertising and media activism. SEO for non-profits…
Top 7 CSS Tricks for Better SEO
Google baby by skoop. As most of us know it is often really difficult to build websites for both the user and Google. Google still needs to be assisted in finding and assessing a website’s worth to such an extent…
Hey Freelancer: Are You a Worker or an Entrepreneur?
Construction Worker by Saad Akhtar Recently it dawned on me what the biggest roadblock to my financial success is. I started my freelance career as a worker and I’ve remained one ever since. I sensed it in the past as…
Image SEO for Photographers and Other Visual Artists
Photographing the Photographer by Naixn. Photographers and other visual artists have a magnificent tool to show off their work these days, the Internet. Everybody loves great photos and artworks so they spread basically by themselves. Still there is a big…
7 Stealth Publish for WordPress Uses to Consider
CC: Stealth by Johnson Camerface. A WordPress plugin that removes posts from the RSS feed is what I’ve been searching for for a while now. I thought it would be an advanced RSS manipulation feature but it’s far simpler than…
Image Bookmarking Sites for Daily Inspiration
Social bookmarking, it’s what Delicious does (Digg is social news in contrast, while StumbleUpon is social browsing), is one of the best working things when it comes to the wisdom of crowds. While on Digg the ignorance of interest groups…
Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?
Image: Brick Obama by ~emeph Immediately after Barack Obama has been sworn in as the new president of the United States the Whitehouse.gov website has been relaunched. Some of the most important aspects of this change are: It has a…
The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients
Ignore this by Reeuwijk. The main message of many designers’ websites. Are you a graphic, industrial or web designer? Do you want your website to look good? Do you ignore, hate or forget SEO and usability? Well, I can help….
7 Usability Mistakes Usability Experts Commit
Usability expert at work? CC: Bela donna by hypertypos. Today, November 13th, is World Usability Day. I’m not really involved in it in spite of being really interested in usability user-centered design findability. With my soon 12 years of online…
Top 10 Firefox Extensions for Search, Website Optimization and SEO I Use
Besides using such obvious Firefox add-ons and toolbars like those for StumbleUpon, Delicious and Browzmi (the StumbleUpon, Twitter & Mixx combination on steroids) what does a holistic SEO 2.0 aficionado like Tad Chef use daily or very often? Here are…
10 Usability Sins that Make me Bounce and Never Come Back
Bounce rate means the number or rather percentage of people who leave your site instantly after taking a look for less than a second. Many people bounce due to your own mistakes as a web designer or blog writer. I…
The 10 Worst Findability Crimes Committed by Web Designers & Developers
Crime scene by Cati Kaoe. Web designers & developers often focus on web standards, table-less layouts or CSS effects like styled lists or sidebars e.g. All these things are perfectly OK unless they are executed at the expense of findability….
Top 10 Fatal URL Design Mistakes
Address by sam.d URL design? Is there any design involved at all in deciding how your Internet address and directory structure will look like? Yes, there is, or at least there should be! Nonetheless I see the same mistakes daily…
Saturday Night Fever for WordPress Theme Customization: How to Simplify
Dear reader, I assume that you rarely actually visit my blog. You probably read SEO 2.0 in Google Reader, Netvibes or Bloglines but indeed I look at my blog daily. After almost a year now, yes it’s true SEO 2.0…
10 Coding Guidelines for Perfect Findability and Web Standards
Perfect findability and web standards can be achieved with the same means when it comes to coding. Thus I collected a very simple list of 10 coding guidelines for perfect findability and web standards everybody can easily memorize and implement:…
Findability, New and Better SEO? Experts Disagree; 12+ Findability Resources
Findability is a seemingly new term that has become a buzzword recently due to a book called Building Findable Websites by Aarron Walter (not to mix up with Aaron Wall, author of SEO Book). Now as a true SEO 2.0…
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