Many people still believe that the benefit of keeping users at their websites by forcing links to external sites to open in new windows outweigh the potential fustration of users who are becoming more and more sophisticated and demand greater control over their online experience.
As an online vendor, if you're serious about turning new web visitors into regular online customers, publishing a website and keeping your content fresh is only the beginning...
The Google Search Engine is fundamentally a popularity contest.
The more popular Google rates a web page, the higher it appears in relevant search results.
The primary popularity rating Google assigns to every web page is called the Google Page Rank.
There are many practices I see commonly employed by web designers and developers that I believe are counter-productive and often detrimental to the overall performance of the website.
So you've gone through the pain and suffering of taking your concept to reality
and your new all-singing, all-dancing corporate website is live on the
Internet...now the real work begins.
Here's a fact you don't need an economics degree to understand: Businesses that operate more efficiently than the their competitors are better placed to survive and thrive in any economic environment.
Corporate website owners are becoming acutely aware of the important role Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) plays in attracting new visitors. There's an old saying: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink", but on the web that's not entirely true!
