Incorporate navigation in both the header and the footer, so your customers have easy access to it, regardless of where they are on the page. For example, ecommerce sites often list product types in the header navigation and list brand types in the...
Some websites use logo images as a background style to a header using CSS instead of an explicit IMG tag. If you used such a file on your home page, you can designate it directly from the same IMG tag you use on your site.
Content: How well the content on the page matches what the content is supposed to be about from the title and the header. BloomReach announced today the release of its “Continuous Quality Management” (CQM) technology, which aims to automate web...
You remember the waving flags in the left and right corners of the website header, or the infamous moving "flames. Page Layout Part of your design will be affected by the quality of your page layout. Which parts will be present on other pages and...
Compile your blog posts, add an introduction, cover page, table of content, some images, header, footer, and format it into a handy mini e-book. Be sure to link all your blog posts in the series to each other and promote it as a content resource on...
A company's executive team should sit with the lead designer to go through call-to-action formats, header formats, and all of the other minutiae that can affect user experience, conversion performance, and search rankings.
Ask Men offers a clear header and an image that immediately screams "authority" Your 2 seconds of opportunity to grab attention begins with a mental assessment that needs to immediately connect with the original search query and inspire additional...
The solution in this case was so simple; all we did was add a small image in the header telling users they needed to scroll down for pricing! These pieces of your web page have become the standard starting points for conversion testing, but what...
Set a far-future Expires header, which allows browsers to cache content and assets. Dynamically serve mobile content using the Vary header. For example, if you notice you have a slow page load time in WMT, then that might explain why you have a...
Facebook Graph still needs to figure out its mobile app integration and how to move out from under its current overlooked location in the page header. I would also recommend thinking of how this type of analysis can be incorporated into an A/B test...
The strategy of spamming wire services with sales pitches or informative articles under a press release header has been recognized, and Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has said in not to expect much power from these types of links just...
As it turns out, implementing the Vary User-Agent HTTP header effectively turns off the caching of pages. When a site serves special content on the same desktop URL, Google says it: strongly recommends that your server also send the Vary (User...
There aren't going to be hard and fast rules on when and when not to use a sticky header except that your site content is going to be your best determinant. Before you start laying out your page into long-form scrolling bottomless wells, ask...
To do this, run the your redirects through a bulk header checker, such as the one provided by SEOBook or one of the many others that are on the web. For redirects, use a header checker tool to follow the redirects back.
Readability is important here but so is the idea of grouping content into segments or categories – this is most often seen in blog posts where header tags are used to break apart large walls of text. Taglines are a great way to quickly translate...
A screen shows the familiar Facebook blue bar header, turned into a search box. If you'd like to get on the short list, direct yourself to the Facebook Graph Search page and sign up with the "Join Waiting List" link at the bottom of the page.
This is best achieved by maintaining a consistent base language throughout your website and declaring the default language in the header markup of each page. HTTP Header You translate only the navigational components of a page, like the navigation...
The tool will check the header status of all URLs found on the site if you enter the root domain. A redirect means that users still get to content pages rather than being served a 404 page. Now is the perfect time to do some housekeeping; get all...
I just found a page missing a title tag, with an overly long meta description, throwing the wrong header response code, with no image alt text, and 768 links on the page. Needless to say, you don’t want Googlebot to hit the wrong header response...
A lot of key links are “placed” in a position so high up on the page that they are “invisible” to the normal user, often sat in the header in pixel position -9999px or similar. As an added bonus, as well as buying time for the site, Google may also...
