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Big iBrother – Steve Jobs’ response to the tracking controversy
Apr 26th
The recent discovery of a “location history database” built into iOS (the OS employed by the humble iPhone) – which effectively tracked users’ locations and activities – has finally been addressed by the Big Apple himself: CEO of the company, Steve Jobs.
According to the website MacRumors (macrumors.com), a concerned reader wrote directly to Jobs regarding a file built into iOS named “consolidated.db”, which keeps a record of precise locations via longitude and latitude co-ordinates. A visualisation of this data, which could be effectively used to pinpoint an iPhone user on a map, was created by enterprising researchers via a program for Mac OS X, sparking media attention and rather a large amount of paranoia in iPhone users. The anonymous reader who wrote to Jobs cited the idea as “unnerving” and threatened to switch to Android – an OS designed for smartphones which is becoming an increasingly popular rival to the iPhone and other competitors such as the BlackBerry – unless Jobs gave a response. “[Android] don’t track me,” claimed the reader.
Steve Jobs’ response was to call the idea that the information could be circulated “false”, saying verbatim that, “we [Apple] don’t track anyone.” While there is no evidence to suggest More >
Reformspring How the Q&A site just got cooler
Apr 6th
Formspring.me, a popular social website which works with a unique question-and-answer format, unveiled a new look for its site yesterday, which has sparked comments about its similarity to the new Twitter interface.
Designed seemingly with egotists in mind, the site’s primary system is a function which allows anyone – member or not – to ask a specific user a question about themselves, their opinions, or their lives, with the prompt “ask me anything”, which can (and often is) cross-posted to Twitter or Facebook, to gain more questions. A ‘follow’ function, not unlike the aforementioned rival social networking sites, allows you to ask, contact, or smile at the people you know. You can also answer their questions, too.
“One of the most significant design evolutions in Formspring’s history,” according to the company, adds a top-screen navigation bar, allowing for instant navigation back to your profile or questions – saving those precious two seconds one previously used up scrolling back to the top of the page – and shifts the site’s layout to 760 by 490 pixels by default. Formspring claims that the new layout is suitable for all sizes of computers – desktops, laptops, netbooks and even tablets, like the new iPad 2, More >
Mind The &nspb! – London Underground’s 2012 Wi-Fi Goal
Mar 29th
Commuters wanting to send the inevitable text message telling their office that their tube is held once again at a red signal will have the chance to finally do so by 2012 – if the plan to roll out widespread Wi-Fi throughout the London Underground is successful.
London Mayor Boris Johnson’s boast of May 2010 that “every every lamp post [and] every bus stop will, one day very soon, be Wi-Fi enabled” preceded October’s attempt to match what has already been established in Berlin, Tokyo and Singapore: BT’s Wi-Fi hotspots for London Underground users were tested at Charing Cross, and in a strangely serviceable event, users of the Bakerloo and Northern platforms, as well as those in the main ticket hall, were able to connect to open-access Wi-Fi.
Deemed “successful” by Transport for London, telecom companies are now being invited to place a bid for a contract to supply a widespread area of Wi-Fi hotspots to a number of Underground stations – 120, to be exact. The winner, to be announced in the closing months of 2011, will be awarded with the task of establishing these hotspots before a set date. The date itself? June 2012 – to coincide with the opening More >
Link Building
Feb 8th
Link Building
The creation of links for your website – that is, attracting other sites to link their website to your own is a crucial part of the SEO process which is often poorly carried out, or is done so unethically.
We recognise that the links to your site need to be of a high quality and on a relevant topic that relates to your website in order to have a positive and long term effect on your rankings. Again, a lot of companies will promise you huge numbers of links which in actual fact offer little or no ranking value to your site but look impressive to a client who has approached that company for their help and does not realise that this is the case.
We look for linking opportunities by finding relevant high ranking websites that already provide links to quality sites similar to your own. We can also add your site to business directories; provide content to sites in return for links or alert similarly themed websites to useful information articles that have been placed onto your website which would be of interest to their visitors.
We are a London website design company that specialises in website planning, website design and More >
Importance of Search Engine Optimisation Reporting
Feb 7th
Importance of Search Engine Optimisation Reporting
As part of any of our SEO services, you will receive regular reports that contain details of your site’s progress in the search engines and the number of visitors you receive. Complete details are provided on where visitors come from, how they find your site and recommendations are given as to how to grow your site’s visibility and ranking even further. We collect this information from a tracking code created by a program called Google Analytics which we install on your site once your SEO plan begins. In addition, we conduct our own research using tools and manual methods.
The reports allow you to review the new work that has been carried out on your site and the effects it has had. The information given to you is explained clearly so that you can make your own assessment on progress at every stage of the project. This means that you are always involved and informed on how your website’s promotion is progressing.
Without proper search engine optimisation tracking and reporting we will have no idea of the success of the campaign and what else is required to improve your online positions.
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Competition Analysis
Feb 5th
Competition Analysis
A lot of valuable information to help in promoting your site can be found from looking into who your top competitors are and how they have become the most visible businesses in your marketplace. By performing a detailed competitor analysis, it is possible to look at any high ranking site and work out the reasons why it has a top position. Most importantly, we can use their success as a model for your own site – by replicating their online marketing strategies and applying the methods they use to develop your site so that it can potentially outrank theirs in the search engines.
This works well when you identify the number 1 positions on your keywords to construct good link building strategies. There are many online tools that help you highlight the number of back links a website has, here is a quick simple method:
1. Identify your competitorsSearch on Google for your main keyword and take note of the number 1 position, if it is a competitive keyword you may also want to jot down the number 5 position. Comparing your website against these can give you a realistic target, in some cases number 1 may be large websites More >
Magento Jewellery Ecommerce Web Design
Feb 2nd
We are proud to launch this ecommerce web design project for a diamond jewellery company in Farrendon, near Hatton Garden. They specialise in diamond rings, eternity rings, earrings and bracklets.
This project was re-designed and built using the Magento Ecommerce Platform. We analysed the existing purely diamonds website clients to understand exactly what they wanted and how we could improve the old website. As we are Magento Developers we customised the core Magento framework to make the sales process much easier for the client by giving more options when choosing your diamond ring.
Jewellery Ecommerce Web Design
The client has fedback great praise from her clients that have told her how much better the new ecommerce website is and how much easier it is to use, this has led to better sales as the client has told us;
Areatrade recently built us a new website using the Magento platform, to replace an outdated website we’ve had for over 5 years. From the first meeting with Chris I felt confident they could produce exactly what was required to take our website/company forward, and I am pleased to report that they didn’t let me down. Spending such a large sum of money is incredibly daunting when More >
Wedding Accessories Ecommerce Web Design
Feb 2nd
We are proud to launch this website design project for a wedding tiaras / accessories company. The initial brief was to design the company logo / branding.
Once the logo was complete we moved onto the ecommerce web design, the platform we chose for this project was WordPress. WordPress Cart was an ideal solution for the client to begin selling her products online, as it is easy to update and gives the client full control over her products. We set up a blog and implemented her social media accounts, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. Google analytics was installed on the website to allow us to gauge the success of the Google Adwords (PPC) and Search Engine Optimisation campaigns we are currently providing.
Visit the website: http://www.glitz-n-glam-uk.co.uk
Let us know what you think of this new ecommerce web design.
Do larger website do better on Google?
Feb 2nd
Do larger website do better on Google?
Larger sites tend to be ranked more highly than smaller sites due to the amount of information they contain and because there are more pages to be ranked by the search engines. While not every site can be huge in size and shouldn’t aim to be – it’s important to add some sort of new pages to the site as fresh content helps your site keep its ranking and improve on it. Each month you should be adding new content using a company blog or else creating informative articles on a section of your site, which link back to products on your site. Another point of content creation is that the more optimised pages you have, the more often you mention your target keywords – which is a factor in you achieving high rankings for those keywords in search engines.
We perform competition comparison to show you how your website stacks up against the no 1 positioned websites on Google for each of your keywords. This will show the number of links they have and also the amount of pages listed on Google. This highlights the amount of work we need to undertake to compare More >
Local Business Listings & Testimonials
Feb 2nd
Local Business Listings & Testimonials
There are a number of different sites on the Internet where you can set up a local business profile page and receive reviews and testimonials from your past customers in order to promote your website / business. Some of these contain maps to your business and you can display your contact details, opening hours and products or services in your listing.
Using these listings improves your brand awareness and exposure of your website as well and the reviews you receive show that your previous customers were satisfied with your work.
Sites that we can use include Google Local, Which Local and Yelp.co.uk.
We are a London website design company that specialises in website planning, website design and website promotion. Call us to find out how we can work together to make your website work for you online.