Why websites don’t rank first

April 30th, 2013

Imagine a website’s Page Rank as a number that defines how many votes you’ve received from other websites. A high PR means more websites have linked back to you. In theory, a website that has received more votes should be ranked higher. But with votes, same as in the every-day world, these can be influenced. You can pay to have your link placed on a website or add it yourself instead of waiting for someone to genuinely recommend your site.

Just having a high PR (thus a lot of backlinks) doesn’t necessarily mean your website is also relevant for a search query. Because backlinks can be created artificially, these are not always the best indicator that a website is worthy of a good rank in Google’s result pages.

To ensure the delivery of relevant results, Google also looks at other factors such as:

  • Internal links structure
  • Keywords
  • Bounce rate

And even if your PR is good, Google also analyzes the quality of the websites linking back to you. A few of these quality indicators include:

  • Total incoming links
  • Backlinks from high-ranking pages
  • PR of the referring page

There are no exact steps you can follow in order to convince Google that your website deserves to rank first. There are some guidelines though that can help you understand what search engines like and what they don’t like. If you build your website having your visitors in mind, you’ll be covering most of the requirements from the guidelines.

You need to start thinking of ways to make your visitors enjoy their stay on your website. The best way to do this is by creating interesting and unique content. This will not only make your visitors keep coming back for more but it can also help increase and diversify your backlink profile.

By offering the information they need, your visitors will do all the sharing in your place, be it on social media platforms or on their own websites.Also pay attention to other issues that might offer a bad user experience such as slow loading pages, complicated menus and duplicate content.

Next time you see a website with a lower PR ranking better than you, just have a look and see what they’re doing for their users and you’re not. Your competitors can be your best friends when it comes to tips and tricks for pleasing visitors.

Top Reasons or Alibi why People are Not Building Responsive Websites

April 30th, 2013

Responsive or adaptive websites are beginning to be in demand nowadays. But not all webmasters are building responsive websites. There are various reasons behind this decision.

Because not everything is compatible for everyone, you cannot expect every website owner to adapt to the things that are new or in demand. Website owners decide whether they would make their websites responsive or not; depending on the needs of their audiences and other various reasons.

Reasons Not to Build Responsive Websites

Here are top 10 reasons why some webmasters are not building or transforming their websites into responsive ones. These reasoning are well accepted by many. But this list will also encourage you and those who are afraid to try creating a responsive website so that you can keep up with the tight and dynamic competition in business.

  • I’ve Got No Time for that.

Most people are busy doing things for their business that they think they don’t have enough time to learn something new – say, learning how to build a responsive website. But do not let your busy schedule interrupt your learning, especially if it is for your business.

You have to make time to learn new things for your business or you are in the wrong field. To stay alive in business, you have to adapt to changes and learn the things that you need to embrace for the sake of your business or company.

  • My Content wasn’t Really Designed to be this Flexible.

Many webmasters think that their content isn’t suited to the level of flexibility that a responsive website has. But most web content can be styled with CSS; thus, they can style their content however they want. This enables webmasters to have maximum flexibility on their web content and the design of their websites.

Do not let the kind of content of your website determine the possibilities of your website. You just have to make sure that your website is being useful to your audience, which is most important.

  • I’m Not Comfortable Giving Up Control for the Design.

Often, people think that the web is fixed-width. They cram all of their content into containers and frames because they think that they should make their content and whole website inside a fixed-width for the comfort of their audience.

The Internet doesn’t have fixed-widths or boundaries. You can create great content arrangement on your responsive website if you know how to arrange your content.

  • The Methods are Not for my Mature Tastes.

Many website owners are afraid to try building a responsive website because they think that the techniques that are used in building responsive websites are too undeveloped. But that is not quite true; responsive website design is over a year old now. The techniques have already been tested and proven.

Grab your chance already before you hit your head on the wall because the techniques are already too old for you to try.

  • There are Issues with Browser Support.

Many people think that responsive websites need special plugins or browsers for them to work. But that is not true. Every browser that Internet users use supports adaptive websites. You do not have to worry about building a responsive website and having problems because your visitors cannot view your content or your entire website.

You only have to make sure that everything is working fine – the CSS is working fine and your files are being sent to the right browsers – so that your visitors can view your websites on any browser that they prefer.

  • Mobile Devices can View the Site with No Problems at All.

Yes, mobile devices can view unresponsive websites just fine. But it takes too much zooming and scrolling just to read the entire content of an unresponsive website on a small mobile device. This is a big turn-off to visitors because they have to exert too much effort just to view the entire website.

If you want to make your website be frequented by mobile visitors more often, you should try upgrading your website into a responsive one.

  • It’s Too Expensive.

Many webmasters think that building a responsive website is very expensive and not worth the upgrade. But that is not really the case. If you are going to ask website owners who have built responsive websites, you would find out that the cost of building a responsive website is not really that expensive. And though it is a bit pricey, the benefits of an adaptive website are well worth the expense.

Try to compute how much money you should be investing into your responsive website and you will be happy when you compare it with the beauty, flexibility and convenience of your new site.

  • My Sites Don’t Get Much Mobile Traffic.

If you are going to analyze your traffic, you would see that most of your visitors are using various types of browsers and devices in viewing your site. This means that people are using mobile devices and other devices to view your website – not just desktops. This is the reason why you should make your website more presentable and convenient to your visitors – make your website responsive so that your viewers can view and browse your website conveniently.

  • It’s Too Difficult to Maintain.

It is true that making changes to responsive websites can take a little more work and time than changing stuff on a regular website. But that doesn’t mean that it is very difficult to maintain. You just need to plan ahead and make sure that you are sure about the things that you want to include on your website so that you can save more time and resources in the long run.

It is not bad to make changes to make your website better; just make sure that you plan carefully.

  • My Site’s Visitors have Different Expectations.

Yes, people have different expectations on websites depending on the device that they are using. Responsive websites are not substitute to mobile sites; they are websites created to make the browsing experience of Internet users more comfortable. But that doesn’t mean that you cannot use responsive websites to introduce your content to your mobile viewers. If you want to create a mobile site, then it is fine. But you can also use responsive websites to present your content and your company the convenient and pleasant way.

Why is backlinks diversity important?

August 13th, 2012

Thank you for visiting evolvenet web design blog today. I’d like to tell you more about backlink diversity.
The amount of back links your website has is important but also the variety of your site’s backlinks is a necessary factor in Google’s eyes.

Let me take a moment to tell you about the importance of backlinks. Each Backlink coming
towards your sites is like a ‘vote of trust’, telling search engines that your site is important. The more
backlinks your website will have the greater are the chances that it will gain authority and all the benefits
that are coming along with it; PageRank, Rankings, Traffic and more.

Evolvenet web design is an expert in SEO, we personally maintain large selection of websites, in various languages, topics,
quality and PageRank. When creating back links for your website we would place a link from an article from with 100s of sites. Evolvenet web design would actually place a fresh page/article for your website with unique content
that will speak about your site and will contain 2 or 3 links toward your site; 1 link to the homepage  and 2
more links that will be directed to 2 different inner pages of your site. This diversity will show Google
that also your inner pages are important and you’ll benefit from it by the rankings of your inner pages
and homepage as well.

If you are interested in our SEO service then please contact evolvenet on 0121 448 0941

Thank you and check back soon

Top Tips For Creating A Great Website

August 1st, 2012

Although it is always best to hand the creation of a new website over to the professionals it can still help to understand the basics behind what makes a good website so that you understand the services you are getting and can make sure that your website stands out from the crowd. When working with website development services providers you will be better placed to get the site you want if you understand what constitutes an effective website.

Firstly a site must have good navigation. Text and fonts on navigation bars needs to be clear and easy to read and the navigation itself must make it obvious to website visitors where to find the information they are looking for. Navigation bars are popular across the top of the page and also down the right hand side but there are several ways of making these stand out and look crisp and clean.

Secondly as any good web development services company will tell you, the use of colour is very important. If the client has corporate colours then these may need to be adhered to in order to bring the website in line with other online and offline marketing materials. Often the client will have a logo that is ready to be incorporated into their new site but sometimes a new logo and new branding altogether will be called for so the web design team will be prepared for each eventuality.

The third thing that makes a good site is the use of text. Content is very important not only to the website visitor but also to the search engines as it is this content that gets indexed and then determines how well the site can rank in the search engine results pages when optimised correctly using SEO techniques. Pages ought to contain around 200 words of text as a minimum but not be too lengthy as people are not keen on scrolling down endlessly to read the bit of information that applies to them.

Finally, if you have an ecommerce site to enable your business to sell products and services to customers 24 hours a day seven days a week then clear pricing information and a well-known payment gateway are key to achieving a good website. Also make sure that all links are working properly on the internal structure and that the site has a canonical redirect so it resolves with both www and without.

How to View Adobe Photoshop PSD Thumbnails in Windows XP Win 7 Explorer

January 22nd, 2012

For those who used Photoshop 7, and have since moved up to photoshop CS-2-3 or 4 will probably be missing the abilit to view PSD thumbnails within Windows XP or Winsows Windows 7.  Adobe has removed this feature as it would prefer you use its built in browser. However when you design website for a living you have 1000s of PSD files on your computer. Having to use the primitive Adobe browser just doesn’t cut the mustard.

The Adobe PSD Thumbnail View Solution

The solution is very simple and takes less than a minute to implement. You don’t even need to reboot Windows. The change is immediate.

  • Go to ‘Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Restore’ and follow the instructions to create a system restore point. In the unlikely event things go wrong, come back to this menu to undo any changes you’ve a made
  • Download and open the file, photoshop_tpsd thumbnails Viewer Hack
  • Copy psicon.dll to C:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeShell – if this folder doesn’t exist create it
  • Run Adobe.reg (double click on it )
  • You now can view PSD files in Thumbnails view within Windows Explorer.
  • When in the folder where the .PSD files are, Make sure that you select thumbnails from the views drop-down, or you may still see the icon as before.

 

How to View Adobe Illustrator AI Thumbnails in Windows XP/7 Explorer

January 19th, 2012

As a website designer its always good to be able to view the photoshop and illustrator files within windows. Adobe being adobe they want you to use their built in file viewer. That’s ok when your a new company and only have a few files. However when you have 1000s of loyal website design and design for print customers you cant afford to archive projects away as you know that you will only need to access them in a matter of days.

Any way ,  I thought it would be great if you could also see  Illustrator thumbnails in a folder.

  1. Download and open the file, illustrator_thumbnails.zip (92kb)
  2. Copy aiicon.dll to C:Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeShell – if the folder “shell”  doesn’t exist create it
  3. Run AI_Thumb.reg (double click on it )
  4. You now can view Adobe Illustrator (AI)  files in Thumbnails view within Windows Explorer.
  5. When in the folder where the .AI files are, Make sure that you select thumbnails from the views drop-down, or you may still see the icon as before.

Beware! Malware has been found to be redirecting to Google’s Search Results.

September 6th, 2011

Do a search on Google, and you might get an unexpected surprise. A warning notice at the top of your results is warning you that your computer has been infected with malware. The screenshot below shows an example of this happening from a simple search.
SEO Birmingham Search Engine Optimisation

This problem has been causing concern, with the source and type of malware not being given within the details. Google blogs:

This particular malware causes infected computers to send traffic to Google through a small number of intermediatary servers called “proxies”. We hope that by taking steps to notify users whose traffic is coming through these proxies, we can help them update their antivirus software and remove the infections.

This is malware and so un-wanted and potentially threatening, menacing enough that Google are giving search results warnings, but Google is describing the problem itself as an exercise in data analysis. The posted blog doesn’t confirm that the malware is, of course, only a threat to Windows systems and neither does the help page make that clear. The option to ‘Fix’ the problem is merely a suggestion that the user should run an anti-virus program, but without telling the user what malware the anti-virus should be detecting.

If you do get one of these warnings on your computer (running Windows) and don’t already have anti-virus software, it would be a sensible time to get yourself some and run it through your system. However it would also be a little more helpful if Google provided some more details on the type of malware present.

Google, when asked about further information have mentioned;

“We detected a large number of variants of the malware. As a result, naming is not so straight-forward. From a user’s perspective, it is more important to understand their computer is infected and that they should take steps to fix it. You may have noticed that there is a feedback form in our help center for people to report what they have found.”

Therefore as a base procedure get yourself some decent anti-virus software if you own and operate a Windows computer. Malware isn’t new, nor have users of Windows computers been oblivious to it. Indeed, Windows itself will warn you of the need to protect against malware in various ways. I’m pretty sure Windows 7 at least warns you if you don’t have any anti-virus software installed. Get some and post your results to Google if this problem occurs, hopefully this will help clear up the problem efficiently and quickly.

In latest test AdWords appear at bottom of SERPSs.

September 6th, 2011

It appears that recently Google has been testing a new AdWords placement at he bottom of search engine results pages. Some search engine users have spotted this testing and in the below example there where four AdWords at the bottom of the search results.

SEO BirminghamThe search engine giant is constantly testing new ad placements and formats in an effort to improve its response to certain search criteria. These test are usually shown to a small demographic to begin with and successful ones are eventually rolled out to the general public. If you spot any of these tests please keep us posted.

Bing vs Google: Battle of the Search Engines

August 16th, 2011

The New York Times ran a recent article on Microsoft regarding its search engine being regarded as an underdog. Despite being an interesting article, it also raised some interesting questions. A few being:

  • How long (in years) before Bing breaks even?
  • What currently defines Bing and what may define its success?
  • How likely is it that investors will oust Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer because of the failed (and money losing) Online Services and what would be the outcome?
  • What are the features and tools of Bing that may break through Goole usage and cause it to decline?
  • What would happen if Bing peaks at 25 percent?

How Long is ‘Long Term’.

Having launched two years ago, Bing, has made a respectable gain within the search engine market during that time. Commanding 14.4 percent of search query volume in the US (per comScore). This however has mostly come at the expense of other search providers: AOL, Ask and Yahoo. The search engine has not been able to erode Google’s dominant market share of 65.5 percent. It has however managed to make Google adapt in several ways, especially to the integration of social signals.

Microsoft’s head of search has said, “To break through, we have to change the game. But this is a long-term journey.” This is true but how long is that? 10, 15 or even 20 years? It is probable to say the Bing must break or otherwise demonstrate real success before it hits ten years old. However if it doesn’t what would be the implications? Shut it down – not very likely.

Bing doesn’t match Googles earlier growth.

After its initial four years of search engine services, Google was already a leading search engine among a field of around 10. After a following year, Google was dominant with over 50 percent of the worlds search engine queries.

Admittedly the search engine market today is a far cry from that of a decade ago, but matched with Google early growth and trajectory, Bing is way off.

With wide anticipation that Bing will pass its partner search engine, Yahoo within the next year, people have to ask since Bing is providing Yahoo’s organic and paid search is the achievement something to be proud of? If Bing’s growth comes at the expense of Yahoo, it is then mostly counterproductive, because Bing itself is damaging its Bing-Powered sites.

Seeking the Wedge

From this point it is a challenge to imagine what Bing might bring in features or specific capabilities that would improve its situation as dramatically as required for a larger market share. Bing Travel has been mentioned as a differentiator, but with Google beginning to build its own travel service (following its ITA acquisition) that doesn’t seem to be the way forward. The ‘strategic verticals’ of Bing between travel, local, health, shopping etc have still to yield the benefits and usage growth that Microsoft was hoping for.

Even with Bing releasing new and innovative products ( iPad app, facebook integration etc) none of these products have had the stopping power to slow Google. With Google+ recent release the advantage Bing has with its ‘social search’ through its relationship with Facebook will be diminished even further.

Android Tax and Antitrust affect

Recently Microsoft has been exhorting the US and EU to impose restrictions on Google due to the alleged anti-competitive practices. However some of these practices (such as sending traffic to its own properties) are used just as readily by Bing and Yahoo, therefore making any potential restrictions around that practice equally problematic for Bing.

The outcomes of active antitrust investigations across Europe and within the US are uncertain but are unlikely to result in any real upheaval of the current market balance and share. However it is also unlikely that Google will emerge damage free from the allegations.

At the same time as all this, Microsoft has been trying with limited success to get mobile hardware producers (HTC, Samsung etc) to pay licensing fees on Android handsets in deference of Microsoft patents used within the handsets. This is Microsoft’s attempt to generate revenue (potentially billions) and eliminate the perceived gap between Android with its free software and Microsoft’s priced system.

The success of Android and the dominance of the iPhone have help increase Google search dominance beyond its share on the PC. And though not an apparent part of either the European or American antitrust investigations I see Google’s control over Android being potentially vulnerable in the long term.

Upping the Intensity

Bing’s high intensity effort is paying off and the search engines market share is increasing however not at a level that Microsoft needs if it is ever going to truly challenge Google over a ‘long term time period’. Bing will need to continue to develop novel tools and features and improvement will need to be continued on current features (Improve Bing News to rival Google News etc)

Microsoft will also need to continue to purchase other internet systems, but at increased frequency and at a much reduced cost (Skype was a whopping $8.5 billion). Microsoft must recognise sensible marketing purchase and aim to beat Google during bidding to prevent losing out to Google (The Dealmap went to Google, Microsoft should have upped the bid).

Bing also needs to focus on developing its search system to be usable by both ends of the user spectrum, from the early adopter’s right through to new users. It must be appealing to all user groups to ensure growth in its market share and managing this is very difficult.

Renew your domain name or you will lose it!

April 13th, 2011

Hi Guys

renew your domain name with evolvenet web design birminghamToday i will try to give you informaion regarding Domain Name Renewals. For thsoe of us who are familiar with the term they will try to avoid being the next innocent vicitim who forgets to renwe their domain name. Of courese all bad things happen in pairs so once you have lost your domain name you pretty much have to except that you have also lost your website.

Please dont let this happen to you!
Having been developing website for more then 10 years i have come across afew occasions when someone has either by mistake or for the sake of afew pounds has left it to late and has had to pretty much start again.

.co.uk domain names must be renewed every 2 years. In the case of a .com domain name you can renew a domain name for upto 10 years. in either case it is very easy to forget to renew it when the domain name comes up for renewal

Evolvenet.co.uk will email you 30 days before the domain name is up for renewal. If of some reason you don’t receive the email, let us look at how you can prevent loosing your website.

What Is Domain Name Renewal
Domain name reneal is a process of buying additional time to use your domain name,Cuntry to belief a domain name is not for life. You are merely leasing it for the allotted time, usually 1 or 2 years.You can choose to keep the domain name by renewing it once the allotted time is up.

The only way you can hold onto a domain is to renew it.

Be Aware Of Domain Name Renewal Scams
Stay alert, the net is full of companies allowing you to renew a domain name for 100 years. Customers are always complaining about renewal scanm service letters. The longest you are allowed to renew a domain name for is 10 years in the case of .com you can only renew for 2 years in the case of .co.uk

Domain Name Renewal – Don’t Forget Or You Lose