Web Toastie

When thinking about the title of a website, there has been a bit of debate about whether it is necessary to have the business or website name included. If the brand name should be present, where should it appear? After attending the Think Visibility conference in Leeds last weekend, I sat through a fantastic usability [...]

A newly found ‘hack’ is doing it’s rounds on blogs, forums and social networking websites today. The trick involves altering the URL slightly on a Google search to retrieve so-called “real-time” results. You can tailor the results to be to a specific time frame, but is it really real-time?

OK it may be a bit of a blanket statement, but it seems a lot of web designers are trying their hand at SEO, and doing it badly. Many tips on the Internet encourage web designers to begin the optimisation process from the ground up, and this can be a great process… if done correctly. [...]

If you check Google today you may notice things are a little different. Keeping with the simplistic look, Google have increased the size of the seach box, along with the text when you type (including suggestions). The latest post on the Google blog explains that the small changes symbolise their focus on search, and should [...]

Contrary to the popular belief (well, one colleague) that SEO is in fact done by wizards, there isn’t a magic formula that makes your website appear on the first page of Google. A popular aphorism in the world of search engine optimisation is “content is king” – and although this phrase may be overused, it [...]