How Usable Is Your Website

Making sure that your website is usable is one of your primary tasks as a webmaster and web marketer. What makes a website usable? First and foremost, it should contain information that will be beneficial to your site visitors. Don't disappoint your site visitors by advertising your website as "educational resources" when all that your website has are images of you and your friends. Make sure that your site visitors find useful website content in your website.


Second, the website must be easy to use. This means that it should be navigable. Don't let your site visitors click on countless pages first before arriving on the page with the information that they are looking for. There should be clear cut links and instructions on how to get around your website.


Third, the website must be consistent. If you have placed your menu buttons on the upper right part of the home page, do it on all pages of your website. This way, your site visitors will know exactly where to click to get around your website. 


A usable website attracts your site visitors to stay. Bounce offs are usually caused by poor navigation and usability. 


HOW TO MAKE YOUR WEBSITE USABLE


Here's how you can make your website usable:


* Have a single theme for the entire website
* Be consistent with design, content, etc,
* Always ensure your site visitors' security when using your website
* Make your website's navigation simple and easy to follow
* All links within the website must be properly working


If you want to attract more visitors and get them to stay on your website, it is time to assess its usability and do something to improve it.

How To Perform Website Analysis

The truth is that there is no point having a website if it is just lost in the vast cyber space. Do you have a website? Is it optimised for your target market and the search engines? Search Engine Optimisation or SEO is highly vital in ensuring that your website is not just existing but also visible online. 


The very first step that you have to do is conduct website analysis. In conducting website analysis, you have to look at these factors:


* Usability
* Functionality
* Content Readability
* Organization
* PageRank
* Navigability
* Customer Information Acquisition
* Manageability
* Content Update


I will discuss each of these factors one by one on my next posts so you can fully understand.

Web Directories To Submit Your Site To

Here are some more directories that have listed my site:

http://www.theautomotivedir.com/

http://www.thecommercialdirectory.com

http://www.thegeneraldirectory.info

http://www.ukdirectory.com.ar/

http://www.vipdirectory.com.ar/

http://www.websitesubmissiondirectory.org

http://www.zendirectory.com.ar/

http://www.3dwebdirectory.com

http://www.alikedirectory.com

http://www.b3directory.com Happy submitting!

SEO Content For Websites

When writing for the web, the rule is that if it is not optimized, it is worthless. Don't think that SEO content is merely for the search engines, it is for your target market as well. When you say SEO content, you mean:

* content that contains keywords that your target market is looking for
* content that is highly organized and relevant to your target market
* content that is interconnected with the other content of the website
* content that is easy to browse and follow
* content with working links

Writing SEO content is for the search engines and for your target market. So start writing SEO content now!

Web Development Versus SEO

Hi guys...Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Recently I was invited for an interview by a company looking for an SEO specialist. I was pretty excited knowing that I know SEO from the grounds up. This will be ezzy pizzy!


But it turns out they don't really need an SEO person...they need a web developer. Let me get this straight guys, web development is very much different from SEO. If you are looking for an SEO specialist, you don't require them to know the programming language, you don't let them create graphics and flash images, you don't ask them to build a mock up website! SEO is Search Engine Optimisation. You ask them to:


* put optimized content in your website
* link the web pages to each other for easy indexing
* build relevant incoming links
* market the website on the search engines
* do off-page and on-page optimization
* manage your blog
* create optimized blog posts
* and more....


SEO and web development are DIFFERENT! if you need a developer, don't call me but if you need an SEO expert...contact me.

Article Spinning - Manual

Spinning articles is easy with the use of article spinning tools. It will be a pain to do it manually. I have a client requesting for manual spinning and I did it right. But for new spinners, I suggest you do it using a spin program. However, don't do auto spin as the sentences look funny and incomprehensible.

Happy weekend everyone!

Article Spinning - Article Ranks Spintex

If you have tried article spinning before, you know that the symbols are {word} and each word separated by |.


e. g. 


The {man|guy} {adores|loves} her.


With article ranks spintex, you can do 2 levels of spins - sentence and word level. Each sentence level uses ~ as separator instead of |. Word level uses [word] instead of {word}.


e.g.


{Thank you~I [love|appreciate] it~Many thanks to you}


Hope I made it clear! happy spinning everyone.

Free And Paid Directories

Here are some of the web directories on my list. They are a combination of paid and free. But don't worry the paid directories here charge not more than $10 for inclusion. Enjoy and start submitting your website to the directories:

http://www.pegasusdirectory.com/

http://www.alistdirectory.com/

http://www.businessseek.biz/

http://www.littlewebdirectory.com/

http://www.the-free-directory.co.uk/

http://www.tsection.com/

http://www.aaawebdirectory.com/

http://www.blpdirectory.info/

http://www.directory100.info/

http://www.directorybin.com/

http://www.he-directory.com/

http://www.increasedirectory.com/

http://www.prolinkdirectory.com/

http://www.thalesdirectory.com/

http://www.1235directory.com/

http://www.192directory.co.uk/

http://www.1c5.net/

http://www.247webdirectory.com/

http://www.9sites.net/

http://www.a1webdirectory.org/

http://www.beedirectory.com/

http://www.cachedirectory.com/

http://www.cutedirectory.net/

http://www.directory.am/

http://www.directory5000.com

http://www.directorycafe.com/

http://www.directoryconsultancy.com/

http://www.directoryfind.net

http://www.directorygator.com

http://www.directoryorbit.com

http://www.directorypage.net

http://www.directoryseo.com.ar/

http://www.directorytop.com

http://www.diroo.org/

http://www.fastdirectory.com.ar

http://www.freewebdirectory.com.ar

http://www.friendly-directory.co.uk

http://www.gardendirectory.com.ar/

http://www.geldirectory.com

http://www.globalwebdirectory.co.uk

http://www.heydirectory.com

http://www.mars-directory.info/

http://www.mywebdirectory.com.ar

http://www.namedirectory.com.ar

http://www.ncdirectory.com.ar

http://www.newconceptdirectory.com.ar

http://www.onemilliondirectory.com

http://www.onewaylinksite.com

http://www.opensitedirectory.com

http://www.pdadirectory.eu/ More directories to come...keep in touch.

Looking for parenting blogs to submit your website to?

Well, I know a lot of people who do link building. And if in case your website is related to parenting, here is a list of blogs which you can contact. Most of them offer guest posts:

blog.equallysharedparenting.com/

coolmompicks.com/

dealseekingmom.com/

englishmum.com/

flowerpowermom.com

http://irelandwithkids.com/

http://www.dazzledandfrazzled.com/

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/

http://www.ivillage.co.uk/

http://www.magickeys.com

http://www.parenting.co.uk/

http://www.todaysparent.com/

http://www.webmd.com/

http://www.workingmother.com/

kidshealth.org

mom.salary.com/

momagementmatters.com

momswithapps.com/

moneysavingmom.com/

mssinglemama.com/

parenting.families.com/

parentingbeyondbelief.com

parenting-styles.org/

simplemom.net/

travelingmom.com/

www.5minutesformom.com/

www.abcparenting.com/

www.amomslove.com/

www.babycenter.com

www.betterparenting.com/

www.britmums.com/

www.cafemom.com/

www.care.com

www.childcare.co.uk/

www.childcareexchange.com/

www.childcareexpo.co.uk/

www.childcarenetwork.net/

www.ciaobambino.com

www.clickinmoms.com/

www.crazyadventuresinparenting.com/

www.cycle4sickchildren.com/

www.dltk-kids.com

www.dumblittleman.com

www.empoweringparents.com

www.familycaring.co.uk

www.fosterparenting.com/

www.holisticmoms.org/

www.hotmomsclub.com/

www.justmommies.com

Directory Submission

Getting backlinks to your website is important. Each link is considered as a vote to your website. However, you have to make sure that the links are from high ranking directories. You should choose directories with strong domains.

There are many free directories out there. Inclusion to these directories are not as quick as paid directories. What I normally do is submit to a combination of free and paid directories. This way, while I am waiting for the free directories to include my website, Google will already be able to spider my links to the paid directories.

Directory submission can be very time consuming. And the result may not be that quick to notice but this SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) effort will surely pay off.