Mark Newton
In these days with almost all information being on the web there may seem little point in visiting any of the traditional shows like the ones held in Earls Court in London or the NEC in Birmingham. Is there even any benefit from the opportunity to network with the people on the stands since the […]
SmarterStats produces the reports you need to help monitor your web site’s position on the search engines Once your web site is up and running the work doesn’t stop there of course. It is important to monitor the traffic to your web site and for this a lot of people use Google Analytics, which is […]
Can I make a small plea to the search engines? Is there a way of displaying the creation date for a web page? This way we could see which were the most up to date articles which when looking for programming tips are most likely to be the most useful. I for one would love […]
SEO Toolkit analysis your web site like a search engine would and reports any issues it finds All these extensions are worth taking a look at http://www.iis.net/expand but one that is not really an IIS extension but a very useful tool nonetheless and that is the ‘Search Engine Optimization Toolkit’ (http://www.iis.net/expand/SEOToolkit) . This free tool will trawl […]
One particular client site has been occupying a significant part of my time recently. This site was built and launched just before Christmas and the client was obviously keen for Google to index the site as soon as possible. Now whilst Google may have its faults, it is one of the few search engines that […]
Once the correct file extensions are entered it produces perfect XML or HTML Site maps One way to make sure search engines index your site correctly is to provide a sitemap for them to use to find the pages. A site map in this context is not something that the visitor to your web site […]
One of the great things about having the opportunity to write for a magazine like PcPro is the chance to meet some of the movers and shakers of our industry, and sometimes get a glimpse of the possible future of computing. Sometimes these glimpses are in the form of a sixty foot multi colour PowerPoint […]
After building a web site and making it live the next very important stage is the monitoring of the number of visitors to the site. It is important to set this up before you start promoting the web site, otherwise how are you going to tell whether that expensive advertising campaign or the cheap email […]
I have an announcement… the Internet is broken! Well not quite but I thought it might make you read further! What I am talking about is the frustrating number of broken links out there pointing to sites like knowledge bases. Take the scenario where you are trying to find the answer to a particular problem, […]