Essential Features For A Photography Website

Photography is a very specialist area that will attract a huge number of potential clients. But having a ‘pretty’ website isn’t enough to draw those customers in and keep them there.

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The Importance Of Online Customer Interaction

Connecting with your audience is increasingly more important in the virtual age in which we live. To give your customers a sense that there is someone really ‘out there’ behind the website is the only way you are going to make them feel like they are part of something real.

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Whats my Google Page Rank?

For the mathematicians among us, PageRank used by Google is an algorithmic process, named after a man called Larry Page. For everyone else, it’s a way of measuring how much support a web page has from the number of hyperlinks, and so on, to it. It’s like a ballot for web pages.

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How To Build A Social Media Community

And you thought Facebook and Twitter were only for teenagers on which to send message to their mates and annoy one another by sending pointless links and images. WRONG! 

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What are Meta Tags?

Meta-tagging is a way of ‘pinning’ words and phrases to your website or document in order to make them more visible to searchers. It’s a way of drawing people into what you want them to find and here’s a bit more about how they work. 

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Using Skype to Increase Sales

For those of you not already aware, Skype is a method by which you can talk to, type messages to, and communicate with others, in real time.

 

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What is an RSS Feed?

RSS feed – nothing to do with food and actually stands for Really Simple Syndication. So, if it’s really simple, then what is it?

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New templates added!

We're pleased to announce that we've added several more pre-set templates to our already extensive selection of templates.

Check out six of our favourites...

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Don't use Jargon when writing your web pages!

“Bob is a seasoned, focus-led, solutions-driven strategic manager with experience of making high-level customer-orientated discretionary decisions whilst developing synergies with stakeholders to embed innovative practice …”
What does this mean? He’s seasoned..? Don’t you usually season your food? Do you actually understand what the above person is trying to say? We’re all intelligent human beings reading this but does the above tell us anything about Bob? It’s utter nonsense.

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Writing to get your website found by the search engines

Search engine optimisation, or SEO, is about ensuring that your web page ranks high in the search engines. So, if you sell ballpoint pens, and someone types "ballpoint pens" into Google, your website should appear on the first couple of pages. There are other factors that are taken into account as well but, essentially, this is what SEO is.

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10 tips for a perfect press release

Press releases are one of the most effective ways of generating inbound links and interest in your website - and you don't have to be a journalist to write one!

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Design a new Twitter background for EzWeb123 and win $100.00!

It's official - our twitter background (http://twitter.com/EzWeb123) is completely dull :-)

As such, we're launching a competition for someone to design us a more appealing one.

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New Toolbar for everyone from Feb 2010

Following the successful roll out of the New Toolbar for all new customers late in October, and the positive feedback from customers using it, we are now planning to phase out the old 'basic' and 'advanced' Toolbars from 1st Feb 2010.

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Your site now served from 14 locations around the world

Every site hosted by us are now served from 14 locations around the world!

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Top EZ Sites For 2009 - Have you won a $20 Amazon Voucher?

We're now tracking, using Google Analytics, which member sites are referring the most number of visitors to EzWeb123.com, each month and over the year. The leading sites will be published each month in our newsletter and also on this Blog page.

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10 Essentials For Your Business Website

Your business website is only as good as its content and its usability. Without a well-thought out design and plan, your site is not likely to generate sales for you and your site will be just another one of millions. It needs to give you an identity which is unique in its own field.

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Google launches Goggles Search

We’ve got Google but now we also have ‘Goggles’. You could be forgiven for thinking it’s a typo but no, we now have the use of Goggles on the internet which has opened up a whole new way of searching for what you’re looking for.

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UK Boxing Day Online Sales Break Records

If you are someone who likes to traipse around the shops, fighting shoppers and trying on clothes which don’t fit you, before standing in queues of sweaty bodies, then you need not read this article. If, however, you would prefer to shop from the comfort of your own home, then read on…

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Twitter Looks At First Business Focused Service

Twitter has now grown to prove itself a popular networking tool for personal use but it is increasingly used by businesses. News broke recently in a press interview that Twitter is trialling plans to launch its first business-focused service.

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How to get 'Followers' on twitter

Well you could rely on your friends to tell everyone they know about your website or you could enlist the help of a service that can find more followers for you. The latter will see your followers soar very quickly.

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