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10 millionth .uk registration
March 20th, 2012 by Carly Meacher

The 10 millionth .uk web address has been registered this week, a major milestone for the domain name and its owners, registration firm Nominet.

Do I Really Need A Website?
August 23rd, 2011 by Carly Meacher

I have heard it many times where a business owner says “It is not important for me to have a website due to the nature of my business”…..this could not be further from the truth.

Recession Survival Tips For Online Businesses
August 19th, 2010 by Amy Parker

Smashing Magazine, home to many interesting and helpful articles, posted an article which I think would be of great interest to our customers and friends: Recession Survival Tips For Online Businesses. Recent years have been a tough climate for businesses around the world, and surviving the recession is something that we all worry about. This [...]

Ecommerce Expo North
June 2nd, 2010 by Chris Smith

Last week I went to Ecommerce Expo North, a free Exhibition and Conference held at Old Trafford football ground. I would heartily recommend that anyone interested in taking their business online or already trading on the world wide web takes the time to discover what is out there and learn about current best practice and [...]

The Need for Speed
April 29th, 2010 by Amy Parker

So, your website is perfect. You’ve sorted the site structure, your coding is spot on, you’ve got more keywords than a dictionary and you are riding high in search engine rankings for your keywords. What more can you do? Working in the search marketing and website optimisation industry, this is a quesiton we get posed [...]

Behind the Times is NOT Where You Want to Be
June 18th, 2009 by Amy Parker

As a search optimiser, I see so many bad sites. When I say bad sites, I’m talking about sites that were created ten years ago, in Frontpage, with frames, by someone’s kid, and never changed. Bad sites, boring sites, broken sites…they make me cry.

Search Architecture
June 18th, 2009 by Amy Parker

In The Mom Test I wrote about usability and designing for users. This post will cover usability as it relates to search optimisation, and how that neatly meets the needs of your visitors. Navigation, the science of allowing visitors to find information, is essential to any online business. The homepage needs to make it immediately [...]

The Mom Test
June 16th, 2009 by Amy Parker

I’m a fanatic about usability and interaction design as a result of my background as an ecommerce site designer/information architect. In a later post I’ll write about information architecture as it relates to SEO, but this post is specifically about usability on websites, and more specifically knowing where to go. Usability issues make me think [...]