I get asked by clients all the time what I do to optimise their websites as I build it.  In all honesty, there are a huge amount of factors that need to be applied for effective SEO to work, and adding in meta info to the web pages header is only the start.

Before I show you which are the most beneficial pieces of info to add, I’ll first explain what meta tags are and what they do:

So I thought I’d do a quick tutorial, step-by-step – showing you how I drew this fancy-looking little button, using Photoshop CS4.  There are many ways to do this button with a shadow, but as I named this post “the 5 minute glossy button’, I’m going to opt for a really simple and quick way of designing this high-quality icon.

Using images and photo’s on your website is vital for showing people the quality of the products or services you have to offer.

A website without images is dull, colourless and pointless. Readers on your site will get bored if there is nothing to see but words there, and are almost guaranteed to leave. So adding photos is important, but adding high-quality ones is a must.

If  you own an iphone or an itouch, you’ll be aware of when you ‘bookmark’ a page to your homepages from the internet, some sites have a specially-created icon the resembles an ‘app’ and other sites just have a small portion of the actual page.  Today, I’ll show you how easy it is to apply a custom-made icon to load on any iphone/itouch.

The primary reason for an SEO to be concerned with the Robots.txt file is because search engines like Google use crawlers or “robots” to index web content on the Internet.    The flip-side to the SEO coin is the other reason to be concerned about the Robots.txt file which is because spammers use Web robots to scan Web pages on the Internet for email addresses and other personal information.

If you use your PC to acccess the web, you need to make sure that you’re protected – especially as the threat of malware, spyware and general internet virus attacks have never been so prominent.

Antivirus (or anti-virus) software is used to prevent, detect, and remove malware, including computer viruses, worms, and trojan horses.  Such programs may also prevent and remove adware, spyware, and other forms of malware as well.

Are you looking for some effective SEO tips and techniques that will make your site easily available to the potential customers? Consider working on page ranks as they are really important in determining the overall position or ranking of your website on the popular search engines. These page ranks are not only crucial for getting your website the incoming links from trusted and reputable sites but they also contribute tremendously in making your own outbound links valuable to the other sites.

Boost your Wordpress SEO and security with my pick of essential plug-ins for your wordpress site.   Remember that Wordpress plug-ins are all free and very easy to download and install.  It can be accomplished manually by FTP access to your server and dragging the plug-in files across into the plug-ins folder which is found at:

www.yourdomain.com/html/wp-content/plugins

Wishing you all the best for 2010.

New Year is considered as one of the happiest celebrations in the world as million of people are exchanging Happy New Year greeting messages through text and even in internet through facebook, friendster and myspace.

OwenDevelopments are now including the application of Google Analytics  into their sites from Package 3 upwards.

Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way.  With Google Analytics, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and create higher converting websites.