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Usability, Usability, Usability (Testing)

So, you have your fantastic idea, you have an idea for how your website should look, you know what content you want up.
The hard part is over right?
Wrong.
You can take your proverbial spaghetti and catapault it towards your nearest (preferably white) wall, but what about the stickiness? Sure, there are some environmental factors that you [...]

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Can AdWords Make You Money?

The reality is that it is easy to get started with AdWords. Google makes doing so rather inviting. Why hire a PPC (Pay Per Click) agency when you can just wade in and do it yourself?
You can call Google up and they will walk you through the process of signing up, heck if you spend [...]

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Google Strikes Back at Bing With Coffee… I Mean Caffeine

So having posted about Microsoft’s new contender Bing, a recent development has reared it’s head in the search engine market. Google Caffiene.
Now when I first heard about this new project, some of the many parallel processes running in my head surmised that Google must have entered yet another market. After all, they are dominating the:

Search [...]

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And Our Survey Says… Bing? Maybe it’s Binghoo, or Yahng.

So by now, you have probably seen, heard of or even used Microsoft’s new baby, Bing.
Long rumoured to be called Kumo (Japanese for spider – as in search engines spider the web), Bing has entered the search arena with a huge marketing campaign, a mass of conjecture and even more hype. What’s more, Microsoft [...]

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Keep Your Site Alive With Frequently Updated Content. Yes, Like This.

But the question on everyone’s lips is “how frequent?”
The answer depends on how current you want/need to be. Part of the pattern search engines visit your site with is based on how current the content is. This means everything from the copyright date in your footer to new pages being published.
You can see how it [...]

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youtube faux pas

Earlier this month we drew our North Surrey Business Expo 2009 free website winner with the help of Fiona Humberstone from Printing.com in Guildford. To show no favouritism had taken place, we recorded the draw and uploaded it onto youtube for everyone to see. Imagine our surprise when when the frame youtube chose to display [...]

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If This Post Wasn’t What You Were Looking For, You’ll Be Gone Before You Finish Reading This Title

So why are you here, reading the frogblog? Of course I couldn’t tell you the exact answer, but chances are you didn’t need a large degree of motive to come read this because you are benefitting from the information here. Chances are you were looking for some online marketing tips, in which case, this is [...]

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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) – What? How? Huh?

o you’ve probably heard about search engine optimisation but want to understand the basics. Even if you haven’t, don’t fear, I’ll explain all below.
What is SEO?
Put simply, search engine optimisation is the art of climbing higher in search engine rankings. For clarity, it has nothing to do with paid listings (sometimes at the top and [...]

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Is Your Website a Victim of Doughnut Syndrome?

When was the last time you actually sat back and had a look at what people are greeted with upon logging on to your website? There is an overwhelming need that people feel to try and crowbar everything onto their pages and unfortunately that’s one of the ways people think is MIEFT (making it easy [...]

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Why I’m Proud of weblaunch

OK, I’m a director of the company that produces weblaunch, so naturally I’m biased, but I believe weblaunch is a cracking proposition for small businesses. In fact, the more I think about it, the better it seems. Here’s why:
Features
My ambition is to make weblaunch as feature-rich as possible. We already have a [...]

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