Archive for March, 2006

7 Essential Title Tag Strategies

March 30th, 2006 – 9:43 am
Tagged as: Marketing

The latest Market Position newsletter has a nice summery about good use of the Title tag. Main points covered:

The length of your title
Word proximity
Keyword location
Word order
Repitition of words
Titles for human consumption
What words to use

The author contradicts himself a little - in point 3 he suggests better results from placing your keywords at the beginning of […]

Simple Problem Solving

March 17th, 2006 – 10:00 am

Found this little gem in a post at Signal V Noise - a simple, step-by-step guide to problem solving:

write down the problem
write down why it’s hard to solve
write down what would make it easier
write down possible ways to implement things that would make it easier
write down why those ways suck
then make it not suck

Beautiful!

Crazy Egg - Another Web 2.0 Stats Pack

March 13th, 2006 – 10:26 pm

These things seem to be coming out of the woodwork - Crazy Egg is another invitation-only Web 2.0 stats pack.
Although it does look like it’s got an extra nice feature missing from others - a heat map showing where visitors are clicking. Nice touch.
Well, I’ve signed up for an invite. Will take it for a […]