SEO (“Search Engine Optimisation”) matters, I think most self resecting web developers know this. Below are some simple things you can do to improve your ranking (you might need a developer to update your website!). One thing that strikes me about this list is that it is based on the notion that it’s doing your customer or user a favor by allowing them to find you.

Directory submission
Directories are not an effective method to build quality incoming links but they will build volume and are a good way to get the ball rolling. Most will have a low Page Rank and pass very little link juice on, but when added all together, it could be enough to get you up to PR1. Rather than try to submit to each one manually it is quicker and just as effective to use a bulk submission service. A quick search for “directory submission” will bring you back a list of potential suppliers.

Kuler
http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler/
Kuler has been the preferred choice of many web designers (including myself) for creating the perfect colour scheme for quite some time now. Kuler contains thousands of user generated colour palettes, which you can use straight away or modify to your needs. New themes can be created from just one or multiple colours, with the added ability to upload an image to Kuler, which analyses and extracts the colours it contains to create a new theme. You can also engage with the Kuler community by rating and reviewing colour schemes.

Over the years, there have been more and more companies selling domain names. When the internet was in its infancy, these companies were quite sparse; you really had to look around for a suitable company. Even if you were lucky enough to find a good seller for domains, the chances are that they would have charged the earth for almost all of the available domain names.

If you keep up to date with the goings on in the SEO world you will have read about Google’s recent announcement regarding their inclusion of page load times in to their search ranking factors.  With a lot of companies jumping on the bandwagon to use this to sell their services I wanted to address what this means to your website and what you can do to make improvements.

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Although most people in the western world use the internet, not everyone would consider themselves technical. That is the reason why people who have a website for their business or organisation usually don’t buy servers and try to manage the hosting of it themselves, they use a web hosting company instead. A good web hosting company will provide everything you need in order to get and keep a website online.

To begin with it is important to put the term ‘successful’ in to context. If you think your site will be successful when it starts to compete with imdb.com, ebay.com or amazon.co.uk then it could be a few years before you reach that. However, the 3 attributes to achieve the site’s goals remain the same whether you are adobe.com or a blog about drink coasters.