Latest news from webdesignandseomarketing.com http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website Display advertising, once the darling of Internet marketing, fell out of favor as the rise of PPC (pay-per-click) advertising began. That may soon change as the Yahoo! today launched Yahoo! My Display ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/yahoo-launches-display-ad-marketplace-42 2009-05-22 42 On April 14, 2009 Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows XP and Office 2003. This means there is now a charge for customer assistance on per-incident basis. For many, this can result in a ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/using-free-applications-to-power-your-business-41 2009-06-19 41 Several months back Google begain testing AJAX search results. While it has not been rolled out to the general public (and there is no word on when that might happen) it does signal a pretty significant ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/google-ajax-results-&-position-tracking-40 2009-05-07 40 As a Web professional, it's never a bad idea to take a broad look at where consumers (and your competition) are spending their time. So today we look at four online categories important to your ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/big-winners-and-big-losers-for-april-2009-39 2009-05-08 39 The Web Marketing Association is calling for entries for its 13th annual international WebAward competition. The WebAwards competition chooses the best websites in 96 industries. It sets the benchmarks ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/webawards-get-recognized-38 2009-05-08 38 Twitter's VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram, has come out and said that Twitter will soon start crawling and indexing links included in tweets. That's big. Take a look at TinyURL's ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/twitter's-big-news-has-huge-implications-for-search-37 2009-05-07 37 WaveMaker, a visual development platform for Web applications, announced a new version of its solution that further reduces development costs for those interested in creating enterprise-ready data ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/wavemaker-widget-development-36 2009-05-04 36 A web designer once told me that despite how much clients always appreciated her work, she was never actually satisfied with the design of her own site - a case of overthinking it, I guess. Fortunately, ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/design-portfolio-software-for-web-designers-35 2009-05-04 35 Yahoo announced the availability for its search and display advertisers to use the company's enterprise level Yahoo! Web Analytics tool for free. Yahoo! Analytics (formerly IndexTools) was ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/web-analytics:-yahoo-gets-serious-34 2009-05-02 34 A recent study on usability found that men prefer fast download speed to easy navigation. Women prefer ease of use, easy navigation, and accessibility. In a survey of 301 undergraduates on the importance ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/men-vs.-women:-website-optimization-usability-study-33 2009-05-01 33 Publishers using both Google Analytics and Google Adsense can now officially integrate their accounts. Marrying the accounts takes just a few minutes. Publishers need to log into AdSense, select ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/google-analytics-and-adsense-get-married-32 2009-04-30 32 Giving Customers What They Want with the Privacy They Deserve E-commerce and Internet marketing professionals have always grappled with personalizing online content for each visitor while preserving ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/optimizing-personalization-31 2009-04-27 31 Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are responsible for more than half of the U.S. locally-targeted online ad spend, according to "Main Street Goes Interactive," a report from Borrell ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/smbs-spending-record-amounts-online-30 2009-04-29 30 Google has announced the availability of an Analytics Data Export API (beta) is now publicly available. A long requested feature, the API will allow developers to enhance existing business applications ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/google-analytics-api-create-standalone-apps-29 2009-04-24 29 Web hosting companies are all but slashing their prices to attract new customers and retain existing ones. This presents an excellent opportunity to save a few dollars a year on your web hosting needs ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/web-hosting-in-a-recession-28 2009-04-27 28 Back in March we discussed how to use FLIR (Facelift Image Replacement) as one way to replace text and use any font on your website. FLIR is a great alternative to sIFR that does not require Flash, ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/web-design:-use-cufon-for-text-replacement-27 2009-04-27 27 The trouble with real-time analytics is that they are like a vortex of awesomeness, pulling you in deeper and deeper, until you pick your head up at the end of the day and realize you haven't ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/chartbeat-real-time-analytics-26 2009-04-28 26 CAPTCHA's (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) are problematic, as they are often difficult for humans to read and relatively simple (with a little soft-hacking) ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/captcha-innovation-captcha-the-dog-25 2009-04-28 25 Google has been displaying site links - the linked words below a main search result that leads to internal pages of that website - for some time now. But there has been a restructuring. Now, instead ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/google-reorganizes-serp-sitelinks:-what-you-need-to-know-24 2009-04-21 24 Next to acquiring website visitors, conversion is the most important goal for Internet professionals. While much of the optimizaton in the past has been manual modifications based on best guesses, ... http://www.webdesignandseomarketing.com/en/design-website/optimizing-website-conversion-with-vertste-23 2009-04-08 23