Things categorized as 'Usability'
What’s that? Us-ability? USAability?
10 Blogging Mistakes Most Bloggers Make
Executed by mistake is a Creative Commons image by the moog. Sometimes it takes years of blogging to notice your most obvious mistakes. I've been blogging for several years privately, ...
The New Delicious Front Page is Broken and Easily Gamed
For years the Delicious front page has been the better Digg. No political bias, no teenage geek crap with b00bs, FAILs ...
6 New SEO 2.0 Definitions: It’s the People’s SEO, about Relevancy & ORM but not…
SEO 2.0 doesn't exist and I'm glad it doesn't! OK, SEO 2.0 doesn't exist according to Wikipedia. It existed, someone wrote an excellent article about it but the Wikipedia censors deleted it. ...
User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps
What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I'll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you ...
Hey Marketers on Twitter: It’s not a Link List
Although I don't call myself a marketer, I'm an optimizer, most people assume I am one. So all kinds of marketers follow me on Twitter and
Web Trends 2009
You know by now that I'm a big fan of the Web Trend Map by iA. I featured the 2007 and the 2008 web trend ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Only 7 WordPress Plugins Business Bloggers Need
CC: Only only by Thomas Hawk. Serious, professional and business bloggers listen up: Forget all those top 100 WordPress Plugins lists, those top 10 SEO Plugins for WordPress compilations. I blog for 4 ...
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 ...
Jill Whalen of High Rankings Repels Ethics in SEO
The SEO industry has a few renowned figures who speak for it in a way. They're mostly North American industry heavy weights who are often in the business since the nineties of ...
10 Reasons Why Mixx is Broken and How to Fix it
Yeah, I can recognize the eyes. Seen them stolen again and again on Mixx. I'm fed up: My favorite social news site Mixx is currently broken. ...
Quick Guide to StumbleUpon Categorization and Tagging
CC: Stumbling into happiness by szea. One of the most annoying issues on StumbleUpon, both from an user and a webmaster perspective is the ...
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 ...
7 SEO 2.0 Methods Obama Used to Score on the Web
SEO 2.0 is a term that summarizes all modern methods of making a message heard online, getting found via search engines or any feasible way of reaching an audience by use of ...
The 7 Simplest Ways To Lower Your Bounce Rate and Get More Conversions
cc: Please open door slowly by splorp. Every website or blog has a purpose, be it a sale, a subscription or simply conveying the message, whatever it is. Achieving this goal ...
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 ...
Blog Suicide: Top 7 Title & Meta Tag Mistakes that Kill Your Blog
Suicide by frozi. I'm shocked! Not only do bloggers waste time with meta tags although most of them are worthless for Google, bloggers hurt themselves using ...
Top 7 Annoying StumbleUpon Mistakes
Mistakes, by electrospray. OK, I'm nearing my 10.000 "like it" stumbles (only ca. 1000 left) and I'm wondering how I can help people ...
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 ...