Earlier during the mid and late ninety’s and beginning of the 21st century the Internet connections were rather slow. Most people had dial-up Internet network connections and broadband connectivity was a futuristic luxury that not many had the capacity to afford. Due to this the landing page time of most web sites in the cyber world was relatively high. Whenever, you needed to access a web page staring at the computer screen for a minimum number of 30 seconds was a compulsion. The higher the graphics the larger the landing page time. Landing page time means the time it takes to open the desired web page on the computer screen. Googles latest QS feature would have been a boon back then.
Most search engines including the beloved Google have this system of Quality Score popularly shortened as QS. Quality score as Google suggests is a dynamic variable assigned to the keywords in your web page. This makes it easier for users to get relevant ads displayed when they access your site. This makes it convenient for the users. However, Google has implemented a new feature on May 9th regarding the landing time of the page. This is solely on evaluation basis until the middle of June so that users can get a hang of this compulsory supposed advantage. In the middle of June the QS will include the landing page load time as a regular feature.
Well if I ponder over it, I can conclude that the rule of the mighty fish gulping down the smaller ones applies rather well here. The sites poor in their programming department and HTML, XML, php components that usually take a relatively longer time than others to load will suffer the most. The bigger sites that have higher graphics but are on better terms with Google will have not much of a problem to deal with because their best friend Google can surely make certain exceptions there. So the two sides to this coin are even if you have broadband it is not that much of a use to you only that your web site has a chance to suffer Google’s additional penalty of being back-staged. The other side is most people will now put an extra effort in programming and scripting their web sites real good and will surely avoid the extra clutter. So there is always a brighter side if you want to look at one.
Cheers.
Lost tofu turkeys, frustrated e-commerce clients and a website badly in need of a usability checkup are featured in the latest episode of Oneupweb’s Podcast Series, One for the Money.
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Any decision on a website’s navigation is critical to usability, findability, accessibility and SEO. It can be difficult to undo if you select a poor design. So usable navigation is best established early on in a web project. There are many different examples of main navigation systems, (i.e. the main method for accessing content in different site sections) but the ‘three Cs’ of …
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Brulant, Inc., one of the leading ecommerce and online business partners in the nation, recently conducted a website usability study for Safelite® Auto Glass, a national auto glass provider, resulting in a 69% increase in the number of customers to complete the appointment process.
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“Google’s vision for universal search is to ultimately search across all its content sources, compare and rank all the information in real time, and deliver a single, integrated set of search results that offers users precisely what they are looking for.” – Source: Google Press Release
It is still a mystery whether Big Daddy is doing this for User Experience as it claims or is it a strategy to glue the users with all their services – as a single source of information. Google has been making a clever plan to retain the monopoly position when it comes to Search. Whether it will always be there or not is a debatable topic.
As a user, If I want to read a news story or watch a video, I would like to go there and see for myself. But combining all these services as part of the Search results is certainly going to overwhelm me. When Google introduced Books & Stock quotes on SERPs, it annoyed me.
I guess I have to wait for it to see myself and then comment on it. Hope Big Daddy doesn’t disappoint me any more. 
The rel=”nofollow” tag is a HTML attribute to instruct search engines not to assign any value for the given link. It is generally used in forums and websites where the web master does not want to provide link value to its members. Especially in cases where the links were posted through some automated bots to gain higher rankings in SERPs.
Nofollow tag helps to avoid the tricks and clearly informs spiders with a sign “DO NOT INDEX THIS LINK”. Links with Nofollow tag will not be counted as a backlink.
As a web master you can instruct NOT to crawl any one page or the whole directory using the robots.txt file. For example:
Disallow: /pagename.html
Disallow: /foldername/
Posted by Olaf Schmidt on Tuesday 22/May/2007, @00:25 from the t�v-t�v-hurrah dept. Munich’s KDE distribution LiMux has been certified to meet the international usability standard ISO 9241. The use of KDE 3 as an “effective, efficient and satisfactory” working environment is named as a decisive factor for passing the certification.
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The Royal Society of Medicine has now launched its new website at www.rsm.ac.uk. This marks a dramatic improvement with a completely new design and layout that improves navigability, accessibility and usability.The new website has been developed so that it is structured around the needs of its users, and was created following consultation with Members and other users of the website. [click link …
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Dramatically increased accuracy sets a new standard among persona development solutions (PRWeb May 15, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/VGhpci1JbnNlLUluc2UtRW1wdC1UaGlyLVplcm8=
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Aaron Shear from Clickz shares his thoughts on doing A/B testing for large websites with multiple categories and product pages. He says “One of the most difficult things to explain to upper management is just how problematic it can be to do A/B testing on SEO strategies on large sites. There are so many moving parts that could easily cause the test to be contaminated through the process.
The most commonly used strategy for A/B testing in large businesses is to take an entire category, or just a sampling of pages within the site, and make a few changes. The idea here is that you can take a small sample of the site with little to no harm and measure its change. This type of test will fail in every case, due to what I call the bleeding factor.”
He also suggests that its better to do A/B testing on a global level to all the similar page types and then measure on the impact however small it may be.
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