By Jordan Hall 30th March 2010
Web visibility is of vital importance to any web business, be it e-commerce or otherwise. The visibility of your website is one of the key focuses of search engine optimisation.SEO will increase your web visibility through by improving the rankings of your websites in search engine results pages (or 'SERPs'). SERPs are the pages you land on, as an Internet user, when you enter search terms into an online search engine. They present a list of we...
By Jordan Hall 18th March 2010
Google is highly likely to be shutting down Google Search in China, after discussions with Chinese authorities regarding censorship laws appear to have reached an impasse. Last Friday, the Chinese government challenged Google directly, stating that it refused to compromise its censorship laws to prevent Google from leaving China. Google's removal of censorship occurred after a number of 'cyber-attacks' has occurred to Google's systems from an ...
By Jordan Hall 12th March 2010
I previously posted about Google's new web design, and now the BBC website is undergoing a beta web design. Take a look at the new BBC web design in the screenshot below. Click the image above to view an enlarged screenshot. Alternatively, you can take a look at the beta BBC directly at http://beta.bbc.co.uk/ The new BBC homepage design is even heavier in JavaScript and AJAX functionality allowing for some extremely dynamic customisation of the ...
By Jordan Hall 8th March 2010
Google has recently released quite a tweak to its google.com web design to a select few users. Below are a couple of screenshots of the new web design from Google. Clicking the screen shots below will show the new web design, which features more squared off search button, a highlighted sidebar on search results and a change in default link colour to a significantly lighter shade of blue. This also appears to be a slight re-brand of the Googl...
By Jordan Hall 1st March 2010
About Keyword Density In the context of search engine optimisation, keyword density refers to amount of times a certain keyword or phrase appears in web page content relative to the total number of words present within the content being analysed. The keyword density is usually shown as a percentage indicating the number of times the keyword or phrase, in comparison to the total number of words, but can also be expressed as a ratio of the same dat...