If a visitor to your website follows a broken link and gets the dreaded HTTP 404 message, what does that say to them about your website—and your business? Arriving at that error page creates frustration for the user and can diminish trust in your brand. After all, if your company can’t keep a simple link functioning, what else could go wrong? Locating Broken Links Evidence of broken links should be easy to find in your website’s error logs, so hopefully you’ll know if 404 errors [...]

 

How many times have you arrived on a page via search results, only to hit the Back button within seconds? Probably hundreds, or even thousands. You took one look at the page and could quickly tell it wasn’t what you wanted. Hopefully the important pages of your website are attracting highly qualified visitors who find value in your content, because those pages are well-optimized for the right SEO keywords. But that’s just the beginning, because you almost certainly want those visitors to do something after [...]

 

By now, hopefully your business is developing a great mobile user experience for your website visitors. By 2015, it’s expected that more web content will be accessed on mobile devices than on desktop computers. So if you’re not already catering for mobile, don’t wait another minute. The recent rapid growth in mobile web usage has already surpassed the expectations of many, so it’s entirely possible that your audience will be mostly browsing, researching, and purchasing on mobile devices even earlier than 2015. So, how’s your [...]

 

It’s easy for an ever-growing website to become a big mess. We’ve all seen them—sites that probably started out fine, but gradually began losing the plot as more and more features were bolted onto a structure that was never designed to accommodate or support those features. The architecture of any website that is likely to continually expand over a number of years obviously needs a lot of forethought. Not just because a poorly-planned website might become a maintenance headache for you, but also because it [...]

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