Web Traffic Analytics and User Experience

“Analytics.” The word sounds technical, number-crunchy, maybe even a bit boring. We information architects and user experience folks tend to prefer dealing with the real users, the designs, and the creative expression of our ideas, and not so much with the numbers. We spend our time developing prototypes, testing designs with users, and then interpreting those results for a creative solution that provides outstanding user experiences. But our exposure to the data and measurement end can be limited, or nonexistent.

Profitable Websites for Exclusive Industries

In the region where my company is located, South Bend, Indiana, the demand for web design and associated services could be described as: leery. It’s not that the locale is horribly lacking evolvement technologically; rather that so many proprietors in this area are very uncertain as to what the internet can do and how they can go about forming profitable web sites for their exclusive industries.

How to Create Optimized Copy for your Website

Every website owner would like to have a top 10 or top 20 place in search engines. But very few website owners have ever asked themselves whether their site “deserves” to be in the top 20. If your site provides useful information, more quality content than the other competitors, then it “deserves” a top spot. However, if your site is thin on content then all the tricks in the world will not produce a top 20 listing. Here is a guide to creating the optimized copy that could boost your website’s ranking in the search engines.

Google’s Topical Match

To many web site owners, Google’s Topical Match is more like a leper attempting to find friends. Site owners, like the Romans of old, have developed great inroads into their sites and captured many links during the process. Unfortunately, Google with their “great wisdom” pulled up the ground under those roads like a great earthquake and virtually destroyed the landscape.

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