Quest for budget SEO package (part 3)
DesignWith my recent blog entries I’ve been talking about budget SEO and how to build a decent low-budget (US$500) SEO scheme. The first entries were more or less about limitatio...
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By: Rand Fishkin
Reading List for the WebDev Set
DesignI was referred to an old thread at cre8asite with a beautiful list of web design and development blogs/feeds. Not every one is solid gold, but its certainly a list worth digging through to find the gems you want for your own daily list. I'm going to be digging through and putting together my favorites to replace my cu...
By: Rand Fishkin
Reading Blogs via RSS
DesignI've got almost 50 blogs I like to read every day and another 100 or so that I like to see at least once a week. But, I'm sorely behind the times. I actually go and visit every blog in my browser to get the content, rather than using a feedreader. Why? Because I can't find a reader that I like... I've tried several (bloglines, google's web version, start.com) and never been satisfied. A...
By: Rand Fishkin
Cozy vs. Sterile Design
DesignJewelryJean at cre8asite is asking about choosing between "homespun" design that is more cozy vs. a more sterile, professional design. The crowd jumps in with some terrific advice and points to a few resources that help provide evidence for the argument that profe...
By: Rand Fishkin
Yes, Virginia, Design can be Link Bait, too
DesignI've struggled for a while trying to find this URL, that I was sure I emailed myself and sure enough, there it was, right in the email, getting overlooked the last 50 times I searched for it. But, my own tagging problems aside, this site, ...
By: Rand Fishkin
E-Commerce Done Right at Design Public
DesignI visited Design Public, an online furniture & gift store, on a whim last night. Low and behold, I've discovered that their online presence is doing literally everything right... Well written Title Ta...
By: Rand Fishkin
Open-Source Full Text Editor for Content Applications
DesignI've been using KTML and Matt's home-written code for a while now with SEOmoz, but I'm thinking of making the switch to FCKEditor. The name reminds me of the London fashion firm - French Connection United Kingdom (FCUK), but it's actually a good-looking system. You can try it for free on this page and download the installation sof...
By: Rand Fishkin
Supafly DHTML - Moo.fx
DesignI don't usually fall all over the latest CSS and DHTML tricks, but this one's killer. It's got a Macromedia-Flash like smoothness that you can use to do some wicked cool animations inside pure HTML pages. Hide information, grow sections of content organically, slide content from positi...
Click tracking tools 101
DesignBoth Rand and Egol have recently discussed about MyBlogLog, and I am about to joing the group. I admit that MyBlogLog is nice tool, but for professional marketing specialist there are loads of similar, or even more advanced tools avai...
By: Rand Fishkin
Dilbert on User Interface Design
DesignScottie Claiborne, who co-authors the hilarious ISOS blog and who bought me lunch on her last trip into Seattle, delivers this stellar ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Nielsen's Blog Recommendations
DesignJakob Nielsen isn't my favorite usability guru, but he's certainly the most prominent. This link comes via Kim Krause Berg in a Cre8asite forum thread (that's worth a post of its own). It's his ten usability mistakes for bloggers and includes: No Author Biog...
By: Rand Fishkin
Breaking through the Creative Block
DesignAlthough the creative block for me relates primarily to web design issues, with which I've always struggled, it can be applied to anything from blogging to link building to content creation. There seems to be a pattern in the human mind of a wall of obstacles against ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Alternative Web Page Editors
DesignI've noticed Bluefish getting a lot of attention lately, particularly in light of Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia and the proposed combination of the two most popular editors in the marketplace today - Dreamweaver (which...
Working for better SERP conversion – how to boost online sales
DesignAs any experienced SEO knows, getting a page 1 listing in SERPs is just the beginning. It is possible to rank as #1 and get 50 visitors a day, while #3 for the same keyword can get 250 visitors a day. Term SERP conversion is used to measure how well a specific page listing converts keyword searches to actual visits. The required formula to calculate SERP conversion is: SERP conversion = (r...