I have written and designed websites for years. In fact I created my very first website using Microsoft Notepad. General use of the Web by the average Joe was still relatively new. Al Gore had only recently finished inventing the Internet (LOL), and Netscape Navigator was the premiere web browser. Though today I use Adobe [...]

The traffic statistics page for Robert’s new small business web site starts to load. He scrolls down the page, dismayed. Just one or two visitors daily. Robert sits back and sighs. Most were probably curious friends and family.When his internet-savvy nephew suggested promoting his small business on the Internet, Robert designed a simple but attractive [...]

As the fastest growing vertical in search, many more users on the internet are now starting to recognise the value of local search engine optimisation and the impact that it can have on their website traffic. Also known as regional search, it is basically geographically targeting your industry’s audience when users type in a keyphase (s) into a search [...]