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 I follow those marketers too who, in one way or another interact with me….
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 map version. They mapped the web trends of 2009 again but this time they used…
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…
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 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 blogs now, at 3 of them I’m…
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….
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. It’s not broken in a mere technical sense, it’s broken from the usability community…
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 bizarre categorization system. SU mixes tags and categories in a way nobody really grasps. You can…
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…
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 Web. Typical SEO 2.0 methods are: Business…
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 is called conversion. The worst enemy of the conversion…
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…
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 meta tags. It does not get better it seems it gets worse. Lately more…
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 to make better use of StumbleUpon and not repeat the same mistakes over and over. Well, I…
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….
List of Short URL Services
What to do when you need short URLs (concise Internet/Web addresses or URL forwarding) for Twitter or elsewhere? Either you use the proprietary t.co shortener by Twitter itself big Google’s URL shortener goo.gl or bit.ly where .ly stands for Libya…
Top 10 URL Design Failures of Famous Websites
Famous painting, image by caribb, but no clue in the URL: http://flickr.com/photos/caribb/2355878576/ Do you know what the New York Times, the World Bank, WordPress.com, PHP.net and others have in common? Their URLs suck! A few days ago my list of…
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…
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