A good video about which website structure is better for SEO purposes. Conclusion: A flat structure. It minimizes the amount of clicks a user has to do. This gives you a better chance on the indexation of your pages.
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Flat Site Architecture from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.
A LinkedIn profile, almost every company has one. Most of the time these company profiles are pretty good setup and the CEO’s have a similar profile. Employees however have a LinkedIn profile also in most cases. Those profiles are personal of course but feature a lot of work related information. And there’s where most company’s need to work on.
When browsing company profiles on LinkedIn I see that most businesses got professional profiles and like I stated earlier their CEO’s got similar information in their profiles. But because of different information in employee profiles the whole picture of that company gets a bit blurry. To solve this, you’ll need to discuss the content with your employees and ask them to use the same company description throughout their profiles. Of course ban all the negative stuff on their too and solve the problems that are at the source of it!
It’s a good thing to create a company policy on social media and communicate this to your employees. That way the rules are clear and everyone has the same information in his profile. It makes your company’s image the same throughout the social media that’s used within your company. It’s wise though to protect the freedom employees have on the web, even in their social media!
I found some cool examples of multiplicity photography. That made me wonder, how do they create those cool photo’s. I managed to find a good and clear tutorial on YouTube. Check it out and if you managed to create a cool one, let me know!
The past few weeks I’ve been very busy figuring out the possibilities jQuery gives us. I know that there are a lot of things possible with it, but I really like all the small things it can do for a designer. I’ve made a selection from all the jQuery related website I visited last week and here You have the overview.
This website gives us designers a really neat list of tutorials You can use on your design. It explains in a nutshell what jQuery is and gives some simple examples with it, like a disappear animation on your content or a nice transition which can be used on buttons for example. Read the whole tutorial at:
When building websites I’m always using one part to show products or portfolio items. With jQuery You can easily create a clean and professional looking slideshow. On the website below you’ll find a selection of five different slideshows.
The last website gives seven (oh really?) solutions to implement a go to top button on your website. This will give the user the ability to go straight to the top of the page and presents them a nice slide or animation through jQuery. And there’s a WordPress plugin provided too! Solutions like this are one of my favorites. They are easy to integrate and pretty user friendly. It just adds that little extra!
When using Google Buzz it’s sometimes hard to find what you want. Mitchel Bowden did a great buzz on How to search buzz with search operators. It’s an overview of the operators you can use and that way get the information you want. It kind of works the same like normal searches, so if you’re a die hard searcher you’ll know this tricks! You can read the whole Buzz here.
Everybody who does some SEO gets these problems once in a while. An XML sitemap is needed and will help a search engine to understand your website better, but how can I get a XML sitemap? I didn’t know it at first too, but after some digging found some tools that could do the trick. During that digging I found out a great website (SEOmoz) with a lot of SEO tools mentioned to solve problems like this. Some are relatively simple, others are a bit harder to work with! At the end they all help to figure out where your SEO stands at.
You’ll find some simple answers there about 30 SEO problems they pointed out. You can find both parts at:
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