Archive for April, 2010

How To Choose An SEO Company

Saturday, April 17, 2010 11:41 20 Comments

Let’s suppose you have a website. And let’s also suppose it’s not yet large enough for you to commit to in-house SEO resources, but you think ranking higher in Google for some organic search terms would probably be a good idea. More traffic can lead to more sales and if you’ve never done any SEO work, [...]

This was posted under category: SEO

SAScon 2010 Preview

Sunday, April 11, 2010 11:44 1 Comment

On April 28th, Manchester will be hosting the inaugural SAScon event, and I’ll be there. I must admit, I  didn’t even know this event existed until recently; I think I read some murmurings on Twitter and had a poke about on the SAScon website. Once I’d read up a bit, the plan was to just send my colleague Phil from our development [...]

This was posted under category: Conferences, SEO, Usability and Conversion

Should I Host My Website In My Target Country?

Thursday, April 8, 2010 11:10 2 Comments

It’s one of the oldest SEO questions out there. Basically it went Should I use commas in my meta keywords? and then this was the next big question. OK, maybe I’ve skipped 1 or 2 questions in between, but I swear someone has asked this every single year at SES London since 2006 (and no doubt at every other search conference too), so I [...]

This was posted under category: SEO

Free Currency Data Feed

Monday, April 5, 2010 16:17 2 Comments

Selling on the internet is great. We all know that, right? One of the fundamental joys of selling online is that you can offer products and services globally from one location. Now, anyone who sells internationally will know there’s often many logistical headaches to overcome when doing this, but perhaps the most basic is showing [...]

This was posted under category: Code Snippets, E-Commerce

No Ryanair, Me Speak English

Saturday, April 3, 2010 10:01 1 Comment

So, a little over a year ago (doesn’t time fly?) Jason Roe posted a piece on his blog about a bug in the Ryanair flight booking system. In case you missed the post, you can read it here. Now although it’s obviously not a great user experience if your customers click a few links and [...]

This was posted under category: Rants, Usability and Conversion