Web design
December 31 2008

New Year, New Website?

As we celebrate the dawn of a new year, you might be consumed with the January rush with little time to spare let alone consider how to move forward with your online business. Now is in fact an ideal time to launch (or relaunch) your business website – here are some reasons why you might want to give your website a makeover. Read More »

December 30 2008

What Is The Value Of A Blog Link – The Verdict

Looking good – on the strength of my blog mention alone, the Llanelli Builders and Swansea Builders sites have been indexed by Google and rank inside the top 10 search results. Not bad. Similarly, Simply Maternal’s website, after several weeks of Google seemingly ignoring its status inside Webmaster Tools, has been indexed and cached within 24 hours of the blog post going up.

The moral of this story is: Google really likes blog posts.

December 29 2008

What Is The Value Of A Blog Link?

I’ve recently launched a couple of websites.

RDM Properties is a Llanelli builder and Swansea builder. Unfortunately it is not the most stable industry to be in at the moment! Though the business has been buoyant in past years, the owner is convinced it would be prudent to get a web presence at the top of Google’s search results for builders in his area.

The second website is for Simply Maternal, who are experiencing an unusually long delay is seeing their website listed by Google.

This is where this blog post comes in – I want to investigate how much value Google places in my website by linking to these sites and monitoring what effect it has on search rankings. I’ll report back with the results in a few weeks.

December 5 2008

Free Font Friday: Yanone Kaffeesatz

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November 17 2008

London Moscow Translations

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November 7 2008

Free Font Friday: Migraine Sans

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October 3 2008

Free Font Friday: Blue Highway

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September 22 2008

The Ultimate List of CSS Galleries

CSS galleries showcase the best designed websites the web has to offer, built using CSS (cascading style sheets). They are a great resource for design inspiration, and also to promote your existing website – so long as it’s designed well enough! Read More »