Google has made available a simple tool which provides an interesting insight into what people see when they visit your web pages. You can look in your analytics and see a breakdown of the screen sizes of your visitors (e.g "1024 x 768"), but the size of their browser windows will be substantially smaller than this. They may not be maximised to fill the whole screen, and they'll probably have toolbars and other clutter making the actual view of your site a lot smaller.

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Much of what is written about search engine optimisation assumes that you're writing a blog, or a news story, or the next great 'how to' article" …but of course it's just as likely that you're writing that all important product page. So how do you make a page full of technical specifications work in the search engines?

Of course, such pages are critical: no one will buy anything from you if they don't understand what you offer. It's just that, no matter how creatively written and carefully ...
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As you know, generating links to your website is very important. Look, it's May, and in a few weeks' time there'll be no end of self-confident, web-literate students looking for a summer job. I bet that in six weeks, one of these could generate enough links for you that you could increase your Google traffic significantly. Let's say you get 100 visitors a day to your website, and a stronger presence in Google from a few dozen good links increased this by 25%. At £1.50 a visitor (the value yo...

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A common scenario in industry is for the sales manager to stick his head around the marketing manager's door and say "Now that we've got the Red Widget 2, I'd like all references to the original Red Widget removed from the website", which leads to the marketing manager doing just that, by deleting the relevant pages.

This is a mistake for so many reasons. Never just delete pages.

Firstly, you'd managed to get your original Red Widget page onto the first page of the Google results for "red wi...

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The most important, yet most often neglected element of a B-to-B web site’s home page is its main “billboard” messaging. A user will decide whether to stay on a site or leave within 5 seconds.

While a typical site will serve multiple objectives (e-commerce, marketing, customer service, employee optimisation/intranet, public relations, investor relations, channel partner relations), in most cases, the focus is on NEW LEADS AND PROSPECTS.

This being the case, we can never ASSUME a visit...

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