A selection of articles to help website owners and developers
How does your website look on a smartphone? Many more searchers are using their phones, and other non-desktop devices to browse websites today, so if your site isn’t mobile friendly they’ll have a poor experience.
This is Google’s view too, so expect them to rank sites accordingly.
Have you received an email saying that your mailbox is almost full, and offering a link to click to reduce the size automatically?
This is an example of spam or phishing.
Most website owners don’t worry about hacking until after the event, by which time it may already be seriously impacting their brand and the precious on-line presence they have taken so much care and time building up. There are ways to reduce that risk…
The Heartbleed Bug has infected lots of servers using OpenSSL for the past 2 years, but was only recently discovered. Your cloud services and other internet services might use this. Are you affected and do you need to reset your password?
We all want more website traffic, but what do you do if you’re expecting a big traffic spike and don’t know if your site can cope?
What can you do if you’ve already gone through this pain and seen your site collapse when confronted with too many visitors in a short space of time?
Broken links can badly impact a visitors experience of your website, and your search engine performance too. Make sure you install a broken link checker and regularly fix any errors it finds.
Bottin Cartographes have successfully brought a law suit against Google in France, claiming that Google has been anti-competitive when offering their free Google Maps API service to businesses, and that this is not competitive with it’s own services. This is a very interesting case.
Does your business benefit or is it hindered by Google? Here are my thoughts…
Do you want to add a welcome page to Facebook, and perhaps one that displays in two different ways depending whether the visitor has already ‘liked’ you or not? You can even go one step further and add other tabs (Facebook terminology for navigational links in your Facebook sidebar).
Do you run your blog on a free platform such as WordPress, Blogger or TypePad? Here are 12 good reasons to host your blog content on the same website as your business website rather than on independent blogging sites.
I don’t like email auto-responders. They wind me up and rarely, if ever, tell me anything useful. Anyway, here’s an interesting list of good and bad email auto-responders that I have personally received.