Posted by Rory Truesdale on 2nd of April, 2012
In the first part of our guide about website performance optimisation we showed that although many site performance improvements focus on the HTML of the website, this only accounts for about 0-20% of the overall page response time, while next blog I published listed our 5 favourite website performance tools. Therefore, the most logical tactic is...
Posted by Andrew Whyman on 23rd of March, 2011
There is no doubt that you have heard of the devastating earthquakes that have hit Japan this month. The damage it has caused is indescribable. Take that along with the nuclear power plant issues and things look increasingly bleak.
The devastation however isn't limited to above ground. Essential undersea cables that give Japan part of its Intern...
Posted by Nick on 6th of January, 2010
With billions of websites now filling the internet database and ever rapidly expanding, the use of filtering them to best match the needs of their viewers has never been more important. As such, techniques including SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) the process search engine results to best read content sui...
Posted by Nick on 9th of November, 2009
It’s all too often that a user stumbles onto a site with convoluted links. Either the link structure is too complex, with footer links taking up half of the page, or it can’t be found at all. Bad internal links frustrate users and trip up search engine spiders. What’s worse, there’s...
Posted by James on 23rd of October, 2009
It sounds like the subject of a freak horror movie – spiders roaming free, crawling over whatever attracts their attention and dragging tasty titbits into their web. They do this just as well on the internet as they do in real life. While in real life, the idea of being crawled over by spiders is mos...
Posted by Michael Smith on 26th of September, 2009
Visual maps are incredibly helpful when planning anything, whether it be a website or a career path. When a director wants to make a film, they story-board the script by breaking it down into understandable chunks to help them plot the course of the themes of the film. When you want to create a website, drawi...
Posted by Nick on 24th of September, 2009
Search engines have become the gatekeepers of the cyber world, without them, you would never find what you were looking for and more to the point customers would never find you. The simple realisation is that search engines were and essential aspect of the web but there are companies that have become far m...
Posted by Nick on 1st of September, 2009
Search engine spiders are robots; they are programmed to crawl day and night without stopping through the vast space of the Internet. When they find content that they can spider, they go over it and then index those pages. They are not intelligent and you cannot debate with them about why your links are br...
Posted by Nick on 20th of August, 2009
Spiders are not always eight legged horrors that give most people the creeps. Search engine spiders are a website's best friend. These spiders go by many names; search bots, web crawlers, index robots to name a few. The job of the search engine spiders is to come and crawl around your website. They do this to...
Posted by Nick on 10th of April, 2009
People often ask how best to meet the algorithmic needs of each of the major four main search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves. But though there have been big changes over the past six months, the fundamental ways search engines operate remains the same.
Search engines essentially search for th...
Posted by Nick on 1st of April, 2009
Website owners often do not understand that human eyes and search engines see different things. Search engines don't care if you have a colourful and smart website with relevant graphics, They don’t even see it at all; they only look for the source code. Simple, easy to find source code is the only t...