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“Extreme” SEO Gone Wrong - Why Going to Extremes Can Sometimes Be a Bad Thing

Jul 23rd, 2008 | By Rebecca Goodings | Category: Articles, Code, Design, Featured, General, News

There is extreme SEO that works then there is extreme SEO that does not. There is also extreme SEO which is just plain illegal in the eyes of the search engine. This refers to things like:

Keyword spamming - using your main keywords too many times on a page
Hidden text - hiding keyword text by making it the same color as your background
Doorway pages - an old tactic used by spammers to show search engines one page and visitors another[…]



Minisites - Can its Simplicity be an Extreme Form of Effective Web Design?

Jul 22nd, 2008 | By Wallace Salvatore | Category: Design

What are minisites? In a nutshell, a minisite refers to a small website that consists of less than 10 pages (sometimes just one or two pages) and that targets a specific niche or more often than not, a tight sub-niche. Minisites allow the webmaster to tightly target a particular market without deviating into […]



Extreme Minisite Creation

Jul 22nd, 2008 | By Wallace Salvatore | Category: Articles, Code, Design, Featured, General, News

A minisite is a term for a small website which has a tight niche focus. Usually minisites contain just a handful of pages on a particularly small niche. Many large websites have spin off sites that focus on just one portion of the niche in the form of a minisite.
Extreme minisite creation involves thinking outside […]



Extreme Web Design and SEO (Or Lack Thereof)

Jul 21st, 2008 | By Rebecca Goodings | Category: Articles, Code, Design, Featured, General, News

Many people are stating a case that SEO is ‘dying’ but is this really true? It is hard to argue against optimizing your site for search engine results. Indeed, how else go Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines determine which should ranks where? Although they are all different, it generally comes down to factors […]



Extreme SEO

Jul 21st, 2008 | By Cody Diamonds | Category: Articles, Code, Design, Featured, General, News

Extreme SEO can either result in extreme success or extreme failure, depending upon how you go about it. Extreme SEO need not necessarily delve into the world of black hat SEO which is a world of deceptiveness and illegality in terms of search engine compliance rules.
SEO can refer to a myriad of various tactics that […]



Innovations Web Users Really Like

Jul 18th, 2008 | By Rebecca Goodings | Category: Articles, Code, Design, Featured, General

What do web users really like? More importantly, what do they really want? The average web user has relatively no idea of what goes on behind the scenes of a website. They generally don’t care if a site runs on PHP, Joomla, ASP.Net or plain old HTML. What they do care about is the functionality […]



Extreme Website Development - Quick and Effective Ways to Develop

Jul 18th, 2008 | By Cody Diamonds | Category: Articles, Code, Design, Featured, General

Quick and effective website development requires both you and your client to have a strong idea of what entails the goals of the website before you begin building it.
Most websites have some or all of the following targets:
- Increasing existing offline sales
- Increasing traffic to website
- Increasing online profits
- Converting website visitors to customers
- Minimizing […]



Extreme Web Design Business Practices

Jul 15th, 2008 | By Raine Madison | Category: Articles, Design, Featured, General

When running a web design business it is easy to succumb to the competition. Indeed there are so many web designers, both freelancers and businesses, around nowadays that the competition is now on a global scale and not on just a local scale. You are competing not  only with the web design firm down the […]



The Differences Between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 - Paving the Way for Web 3.0

Jul 14th, 2008 | By Rebecca Goodings | Category: Articles, Design

Web 2.0 is a current buzz word, but what does it really mean? What about Web 3.0, and was there ever a Web 1.0? Let’s take a look at exactly what these titles refer to.
Web 2.0 is a term to describe a very broad set of technologies and practices. In a nutshell, the term Web […]



Extreme Competition - Using Extreme Web Design to Beat the Big Guys

Jul 14th, 2008 | By Raine Madison | Category: Articles, Design

Big companies do not always have a nice looking site. But when they do, they do it well. But it doesn’t take a big budget to have an extreme, professional looking website design. With a little innovation and creativity, you too can create designs that put the big guys to shame.
The biggest problem that freelance […]