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Archive for the ‘usability’ Category

March 5, 2010

4 Steps to a More User-Friendly Website

*The following guest post is by Amber Singleton Riviere*
Web design can be challenging.  For me, the challenge is in not making things too complex and in keeping things simple and clean, which makes the site more user-friendly and a more pleasant experience for visitors.  Here are a few steps to make [...]

March 2, 2010

Why You Should Never Ever Use Pop-Ups on Your Site

*The following guest post is by Duncan*
I like to think that I have become a more passive and accepting internet user over the years. Perhaps this is because I no longer have to wait ten minutes to upload an image and web pages load as fast as my brain works (sometimes even faster). I have [...]

April 3, 2009

How to Track Your Users’ Behavior

Friday’s SEO tip is by Alexander Villamizar of LatamSEO.com
Not long ago I read the post called “Website Usability Equals Better SEO” and here’s a quick tip to improve your site usability!
By using click recording software, you can learn a lot about your site usability and user behavior: which elements of the site attract more clicks [...]

March 4, 2009

Add Breadcrumbs as a Secondary Navigation Aid

Breadcrumbs use a single line of text to show a page’s location in the site hierarchy. They are very helpful both for SEO and enhanced usability:
From SEO perspective, breadcrumbs allow for “reversed” crawling (for example, when a deep page gets a lot of link juice from social voting sites, breadcrumbs help to spread it to [...]

February 20, 2009

Website Usability Equals Better SEO

Today’s SEO tip is very short but it is a really good reminder for us, SEOs, that website success is not primarily about search bots - make it for people in the first place.
The SEO tip is provided by Scott of Usable.co.nz
Make your website as easy-to-use as possible for humans.
For example:

use a simple navigation [...]

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