How Google's total ownership of the search market and increasing self-promotion at the expense of the rest of the web is making savvy online operators look at other promotional options. Read More »
Copy is a word used by marketing-types to refer to the written content within a communcation (website, advertisement, email etc.) as opposed to any images or graphical elements.
The words you use to try and persuade your customers to buy your goods and services.
How Google's total ownership of the search market and increasing self-promotion at the expense of the rest of the web is making savvy online operators look at other promotional options.
Coding an HTML email is fairly straight forward, getting it to display correctly in Outlook 2007 is another story, it's a bit like using really simple language when talking to someone who doesn't understand English very well...
How unwary site owners or developers can fall foul of Google's use of 'canonical domains' for its rankings, and the kind of strategies you need to deploy to counter any such problems.
How a trip to Dublin Airport brought home the dangers of shoe-horning new procedures into an existing design, and why next time I'm flying home by gyrocopter.
Creating a great website is a partnership between designer and client. The client has a vision and the designer's job is to bring that vision to life and make it meet their business goals. To do this the designer needs a thorough brief, otherwise what do they have to go on?
"Hi Cyndi
You're going to find the same thing that a lot of people find when chasing rankings. Firstly, the hand-crafted jewellery market is very competitive because a lot of people are using the internet as their primary route to market - compared to selling at markets and craft fairs there's a potentially massive audience. That gives Google a big headache, because there are a million sites out there competing for its attention.
Secondly, much of what determines their rankings comes from the history of the domain. If you've been going a long time, it says to Google that the business is well-established and therefore probably has a decent offering. Any brand new domain is going to struggle to get anywhere near the top of the rankings in the short term unfortunately. It's encouraging that Google is at least spidering and indexing your site, but you will have to do a *lot* of work in terms of content and link building to see returns in terms of rankings." Paul Carpenter
"I love reading al the information you have published for SEO. but....I have a question. I just started a handcrafted jewelry site www.cynfullyunique.com How do I know if it's being indexed. It appears, when I check my pages visited and people visisted that google bot has a lot of viists. I try to up-date it with new jewelry every two days. And is it good and what does it mean that google is visiting my pages often. My site is relatively new....2 months and I really need to get it ranked so I can sell some of my jewelry, etc." Cyndi
"I simply don't understand why MS always tries to make everything so hard...
Thanks for the workarounds, I actually thought no CSS worked at all." Esteban
"Cheers Richie! If there's any questions you've got about anything, feel free to drop us a line. I'm a bit hapless about replying to emails sometime but we're always happy to give pointers
Oh - and merry christmas!" Paul Carpenter
"Hi I received a email today from googles stating that I won three million dollars for your ten year birthday.
This is a God send. I am a senior citizen trying to survive on eleven hundred and fifty dollars a month. I cannot pay all my bills and the saddest thing of all is I am about to lose my home of twenty eight years. Thank you so much. I am one happy lasy today,. Grace" Grace Cruz