http://blog.macronimous.com Business, IT and offshore development en http://blog.macronimous.com/normal-design-websites-and-web-20/ This post is written based on the requests seen in forums. I still found most of the surfers don’t have clear picture about the “difference between Normal design websites and Web2.0“. So thought of writing a brief note on Web2.0 Hopefully people who try to know Web 2.0 design standards should be knowing about normal design, [...] Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:47:27 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/how-important-is-effective-web-content-for-seo/ You have a well designed website with perfect usage of flash banners and graphic designs, with proper site navigation and easy accessibility. Still do you feel that you are not getting the desired visitors and sales to your site? I suggest you probably need to work on the content in the site. I believe it is [...] Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:10:07 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/5-minutes-site-visitor-analysis/ Even before we started using SEO, Just after building the sites we started using a Site visitor analytic tool. Initially we used Goldstats; It was more than sufficient when we had only 20 pages, and no much SEO really done. It was a nice start. But when we added articles, and  really wanted to know more about [...] Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:07:30 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/take-10-minutes-for-seo-checklist-review-seo-considerations-with-your-site/ This Simple SEO checklist will help you to follow steps to rank your site in major search engines You just need to spend 10 minutes to review your site with below SEO checklist. If you can mark “yes” to most of the SEO considerations then your site will be having a reasonable traffic which can be developed [...] Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:31:51 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/google-chrome-first-impression/ A whole new browser. (?) Can’t agree to that fully,  since it is based on Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox components. I personally like the products from Google, and I believe Chrome would also make some difference in the Browser market, though it is available only in XP and Vista. A Linux version should make this [...] Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:12:27 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/know-your-website-enemies/ Do you own a successful internet business? Built a great website and promoting it online? Is website your business gateway? So you value your website very much and  it’s time for knowing the attacks your website - your brain child, may face. There are both and good bad eyes looking at your website. Apart from Physical [...] Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:41:48 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/cost-of-seo/ When you plan for your site promotion, there are few things you should keep in mind before working out a cost or make a budget. I will make that as few questions to ask yourself or your marketing team. How important SEO is to your website? Do you want to make your website as a primary business gateway? Do [...] Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:17:28 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/immutable-laws-of-marketing-and-branding/ As a Web Marketing professional, I was attracted by Two books during last week. One is on Marketing - this is for every business in the market and one is for the Internet marketing. Both are from the same author(s). The first book is The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and the second one is The [...] Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:38:37 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/does-your-opensource-cms-allows-you-to-build-good-site-interface/ In a survey, by the Information Architecture Institute, 47.6% of people says “My CMS is not flexible enough to accommodate my design”, as a key issue they face with many Opensource CMSs available in the market. This made me to think about the truth behind this. What prevents them from making a great design for [...] Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:10:56 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/web20-applications-are-they-all-making-impact/ Its Web2.0 era, and many of us know how a web 2.o site would look like. We are also developing web 2.0 sites, especially Social networking sites, though we still have no clarity on Web2.0 impact in business. But everybody wants to make it. We get at least 2 requests per week for Social networking [...] Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:10:51 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/get-listed-in-wikipedia/ Have you ever wondered how to get your business details published in Wikipedia? You might have tried it and found after few days or weeks the links and the content are thrown out. In the following YouTube Video Dr. Ralph F. Wilson interviews Mike Svatek about to do this genuinely. It’s worth a watch - [...] Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:16:00 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/4-search-engine-results-page-serp-tracker-tool/ Search Engine Results Page, which is abbreviated as SERP, is a tool in which, once a keyword is typed in, it shows the results of various web pages where those keywords appear. This is taken from the results of various search engines, thus giving an idea of that particular keyword’s position in the web. This [...] Sat, 31 May 2008 05:37:00 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/top-4-link-popularity-check-tool/ Link popularity is one of the methods to increase the traffic in your site. This is an excellent way by which your online website can be recognized to a greater extent. It refers to the procedure in which many links or hyperlinks from various other sites are linked to your site, thus increasing the chances [...] Sat, 31 May 2008 05:32:58 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/top-4-keyword-tools/ Keywords! The very word has gained so much importance in the past few years, in the field of online marketing. To make the work a bit easier for the keyword writers, there are many tools available nowadays. If one gets an idea of the people’s needs and queries that they type into the search engines, [...] Fri, 02 May 2008 06:03:36 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/top-4-smo-sites/ Social media optimization (SMO), a type of search engine marketing, is a collection of practices used for networking and promotional needs, via word of mouth. This is produced not through family or friends but by the usage of networking in online community sites, video sites, social bookmarking and photo sharing sites. There are various ways [...] Fri, 02 May 2008 05:57:52 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/top-4-competitor-tracking-tools/ Online competition tracking is not as easy as we all think and we don’t know when competitors make different alterations to their websites and fine-tune their keywords to gain top results. The most crucial phase and factor of SEO is competitor analysis, as staying ahead of the competitors is not an easy task. For that, [...] Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:55:31 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/4-cvs-tools-for-web-development/ If you are developing websites collaboratively, say your development teams are working jointly in a project (design or programming) and using CVS or Concurrent Versioning Systems is one good practice to save everyone’s life before they mess up others code. Assume John uploads his code using FTP at the at 6PM, and Dave overwrites [...] Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:20:58 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/5-web-collaboration-tools/ Did you ever wonder how to work efficiently with your offshore team. I am sure you wish to have some better mechanisms than simple emails back and forth. When you like your customers to interact with your team, without you spending much of your time, But at the same if you can monitor the projects [...] Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:52:58 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/access-our-blog-from-your-mobile-browser/ Accessing this blog from your Mobile browser is now enabled. Thanks to Alex King of alexking.org. Its a simple Wordpress plugin, Its called Wordpress Mobile edition. Just follow the instructions, activate the plugin, The blog is up for the mobile now, just call blog.macronimous.com from your Mobile browser..and Yes.. you got it! Alex [...] Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:47:42 +0000 http://blog.macronimous.com/wild-ideas-nokia-marph/ Do you want your phone looks like your wristwatch?, Pen? or even like your arm band? Do you like a phone which never need to charge its batteries? Nokia is working on making this into reality with the support of Nanotechnology. Recently at Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition in the Museum of [...] Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:18:43 +0000