http://www.thumoo.com Website Visibility Blog and Search Engine Optimisation Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:49:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/are-you-a-walk-by-website/ http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/are-you-a-walk-by-website/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:43:44 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=140 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; }   Is there a shop in your town or city that you walk past frequently but very rarely go into? And when you do, you just browse and not buy anything? Well this is like some websites out there and it could also be yours! It would be nice to have visitors who come back [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/are-you-a-walk-by-website/feed/ 0 http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/visitors-comments/ http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/visitors-comments/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:21:44 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=154 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; }   Everyone has an opinion whether they be positive or not. But it can be hard to get visitors to your site to leave a comment. So how do you get these important comments? Number Of Articles The more articles on your site, the more likely it is that you will get responses. Regular submissions [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/visitors-comments/feed/ 0 http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/external-linking/ http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/external-linking/#comments Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:40:08 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=189 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; }   When considering external links one has to take into account Search Engine Optimisation. Reading this post it may seem like common sense, but it is good to keep this sort of thing in mind when you are creating these links. When search engines crawl your site, as you know, they 'read' the text on [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/external-linking/feed/ 0 http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/in-the-social-media/ http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/in-the-social-media/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:04:04 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=156 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; }   I'm sure you have heard of Google+ the new, shiny social networking site. The number of users signing up is increasing at a geometric rate so I thought it would be interesting to find some (very) simple statistics  to see how it compares with other social networking sites. I have decided to just stick [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2011/07/in-the-social-media/feed/ 0 http://www.thumoo.com/2011/01/user-experience/ http://www.thumoo.com/2011/01/user-experience/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:41:13 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=117 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; }   User experience has become very important on the internet, but I predict that it will become even more important over the next year. This is paramount for you as web designers and developers to think about and implement to keep ahead in your field and ensure that you are not left behind and losing [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2011/01/user-experience/feed/ 1 http://www.thumoo.com/2010/11/its-not-just-about-google/ http://www.thumoo.com/2010/11/its-not-just-about-google/#comments Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:24:01 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=79 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } There's more than one way to skin a cat... In the world of the internet there are two era's. BG and AG - Before Google and After Google. I'm sure that everyone is aware of the major shift in how the internet has been perceived since Google jumped into our lives and even into the [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2010/11/its-not-just-about-google/feed/ 27 http://www.thumoo.com/2010/08/the-ranking-of-it-all/ http://www.thumoo.com/2010/08/the-ranking-of-it-all/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:48:50 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=58 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } I thought it might be an interesting topic to carry on from the previous one on Keyword Searches and talk about how websites got to be where they are in the search listings. The SEO Cauldron Throw in the correct ingredients and you will get a nice spell which you can use on the search [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2010/08/the-ranking-of-it-all/feed/ 28 http://www.thumoo.com/2010/06/keyword-searches/ http://www.thumoo.com/2010/06/keyword-searches/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:11:22 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=35 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } The other day I found that one of my friends hates using search engines saying that they can never understand how people can find what they are looking for when they are not able to. This came as quite a surprise so I asked them to search for something they were interested in. It was [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2010/06/keyword-searches/feed/ 81 http://www.thumoo.com/2010/06/seo-what-is-it/ http://www.thumoo.com/2010/06/seo-what-is-it/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:45:14 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=14 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } Any of you that have published a website online will no doubt have heard about SEO. But apart from it meaning Search Engine Optimisation, what does it actually mean for us as webmasters? In a nutshell, it is... a practise that is employed to increase the visibility of your website through the use of methods [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2010/06/seo-what-is-it/feed/ 63 http://www.thumoo.com/2010/05/welcome/ http://www.thumoo.com/2010/05/welcome/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 16:00:23 +0000 admin http://www.thumoo.com/?p=1 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 350px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { width: 50%; padding-top: 1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float: left; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; } #bottomcontainerBox.manual { display: inline-block; padding-top: 1px; vertical-align: middle; width: auto; } Welcome to the new Thumoo website. After 8 months I have finally managed to get around to updating the layout and start on the content. The reason for the delay is that I have started at university on a Web Design course - yes, I've taken the plunge! I'm writing this article between exam studying [...]]]> http://www.thumoo.com/2010/05/welcome/feed/ 28