September 2010 Company Blog Entries
Toile Solutions September 2010 company blog entriesSeptember 2010 blog entries from staff at Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire web design agency Toile Solutions, older items are archived.
SEO, Google Updates and Web Design
27/09/2010How many of you spend hours each week checking and re-checking your Google positions?
Quite a few I bet, I have been a self-confessed Google checker myself.
We've noticed a bit of a jump, drop, bounce trend in the Google updates recently, client sites climb a few places drop nearly twice as many and then re-appear in the listings higher than the first initial gain.
Is this a procedure Google are following now? I'm not sure, it doesn't appear to be the same with all sites, some are updating in the index quite regularly, ...
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How Will The Changes at Twitter Affect Your Social Media Marketing?
21/09/2010Twitter's announcement of new improved functionality to their tweeting system is going to be a welcome boost to companies who actively use social media to promote their business, but what will you do with it?
At present you are restricted to the 140 character tweets that are short, snappy and easy to write, which is why they get updated so often.
New functionality will allow you to show mentions, retweets, searches and lists in your timeline.
Related content and mini profiles will show you more information about user's profiles ...
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Web Design with HTML5, Will Microsoft Beautify the Web?
16/09/2010Faster, cleaner and greater HTML5 support - Microsoft have launched Internet Explorer 9 Beta. Microsoft claims to beautify the web, so will it deliver or frustrate.
In the old days developing websites with only a couple of browsers on the market was nice and straight forward, nowadays with the intense competition in the browser market compatibility testing is an important part of the process of building our clients websites.
Opera, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari - browser competition is fierce, with Google's increasing ...
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Website Content, This Should Be Obvious But Many Sites Do Not Do It!
06/09/2010Don't hide your content!
If you have good content don't hide it away! Bring your dynamic content to your homepage providing rich snippets of relevant information and quickly giving your audience what they want - easy to find, up-to-date information.
Examples of content that works well on the homepage are News, Blogs and Video Galleries. The key is to provide just enough relevant and interesting information to make your users want to click through to your content pages.
Keep your content fresh and make it ...
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