Archive for February, 2010

3 Quick Guides in Increasing Your Website Conversion

February 27 2010, 02:02 PM, Claremont Design | SEO, Web Design Tips

Every online marketers and webmasters know that traffic that doesn’t convert is dead. In an e-commerce website boosting the website conversion rate is vital. The actual website conversion rate is the ratio of the number of people who actually convert on the site versus the total number of visitors in the site for the same given period of time. Ideally, the higher your traffic the higher... Read More...

Organic SEO vs. PPC Advertising: Which is better?

February 21 2010, 09:02 AM, Claremont Design | SEO, Social / Marketing Tools

In online marketing, there are only two methods that get most attention. Those are the organic search engine optimization and the pay-per-click advertising. Search engine optimizers and online marketers have a long standing debate of which of the two is a better way to maximize the ROI. Ideally, both methods can be implemented to maximize your company’s exposure and drive more traffic to... Read More...

Generating Traffic with Article Writing

February 16 2010, 08:02 PM, Claremont Design | SEO

Traffic is lifeblood of any online business, without traffic your business is DEAD. No matter how sophisticated is your website or how wonderful the products or services you are offering, it is all for nothing unless you have a visitor that would view them. No traffic, no visitor. No visitor, no purchase. No purchase, no income. No income, no business. It is as simple as that. But you have... Read More...

5 Factors That Influence Buying Decisions Online

February 11 2010, 02:02 PM, Claremont Design | Web Design Tips

In selling your product or services online is not much different than selling it on a brick-and-mortar store. That is because people who purchase product or services online are not really that different from those people who purchase offline. There are many factors that influences the buying decisions online; most of them are actually are uncontrollable. Here are top five factors that... Read More...

SEO Contest 2010 from Claremont Design

February 10 2010, 04:02 PM, Claremont Design | SEO, SEO Event

Claremont Design, a professional web design consulting company, would like to invite all the bloggers and search engine specialists to join our newest search engine optimization (SEO) contest for the year 2010. Test your SEO skills. Learn and earn. Learn some advance SEO concepts and earn some extra cash in the process. Here are the details of the competition, please read the rules... Read More...

Web Design Tips in Reducing Load Time

February 8 2010, 03:02 PM, Claremont Design | Web Design Tips

One of the most critical aspects of web design is the consideration of web page load time. Load time is very essential in the success of every website, may it be a personal website, corporate website or an ecommerce site. Generally, people surf the internet to look for information, and they want it fast! If you cannot provide the information they needed within few seconds, most likely, they... Read More...

The Power of Images in Web Design

February 5 2010, 02:02 PM, Claremont Design | Web Design Tips

I guess everyone is familiar with the line, "A picture paints a thousand words." You can have a website filled with text and numbers, they might be very useful but your visitors can get bored on it within seconds if that’s all they could see. An image or a picture is a very powerful tool. In early civilization, kings and other nobles relied on paintings to show them what their intended... Read More...

Benefits of Website Validation

February 2 2010, 11:02 PM, Claremont Design | Web Design Tips

Even a perfectly running website needs to be validated. Before we discuss the reason why we need to validate a website, we will discuss first what it means to be validated? Website validation is process of writing and designing a website in a ‘cleanest’ possible way and testing it against industry standards.

I would like to quote an excerpt from W3C website on how they view the... Read More...