This is something that crops up again and again and causes confusion for many people so I thought I'd take a few minutes to explain it. Facebook Profiles A Facebook profile is what individuals have, this is where you chat with friends and family, share photos, play...
One of the key metrics you will often see talked about when discussing website visitors is the bounce rate. This is defined as the percentage of visitors who visit a webpage without an action, ie clicking a link. For example a bounce rate of 50% would mean that half...
We often have to talk about colours when building a website or having something printed, but simply saying Cyan is not enough, one persons idea of Cyan could be different from an other persons idea of Cyan. For that reason we use various standard descriptions of...
SEO or Search Engine Optimisation (Or Optimization for the Americans) is the act of improving a website's chances of showing up when somebody searches for a given word or phrase. This blog post aims to outline what is involved in the process. Keyword Strategy First we...
If you own a website you may hear talk of Domain Names, DNS, Name Servers etc, so its helpful to have a basic understanding of what they all do. This isn't intended as a technical explanation, but more as a simplification explaining the minimum you need to know....
Adding video to your site is a great way of showing off your products and services. You can host your video for free on YouTube (with ads), or using a paid account on Vimeo Pro (without ads), The instructions below will show you how to upload video to Vimeo, and the...
Adding video to your site is a great way of showing off your products and services. You can host your video for free on YouTube (with ads), or using a paid account on Vimeo Pro (without ads), The instructions below will show you how to upload video to YouTube, and the...
In order to access services like Google Analytics you will need a Google account either in the form of a gmail or googlemail email address or an account linked to an existing "work" email address. To add a google account to an existing email address follow the...
If you move a page or a website its good practice to set up a diversion to show where the content has gone. This allows the search engines to update their records and visitors to find the correct page. While there are plugins that you can use to manage this they often...