http://www.sceneonthe.net A great little web development partnership Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:47:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've been doing some work for up and coming London digital search agency Absorb, on designs for a new web site using good old Wordpress, the platform on which this very site is based. Wordpress is now in version 2.8 and going strong. It's trusted by many big names including the ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/pressing-concerns/ In my last blog post, I talked about using accessibility standards to improve the SEO  of any web page. The theory is that because search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live and Ask are "blind", constructing your site to work well for those with visual impairment makes them ripe for ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/the-hidden-truth-about-accessibility-part-2/ Since 2005, European legislation has required EU websites to take reasonable steps to improve disability rights access. A common myth about Accessibility is that it caters to an insignificant minority. According to the RNIB, Tesco.com gained £13 MILLION a year in new business by making its site accessible site. While it may ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/the-hidden-truth-about-accessibility/ Almost everyone agrees that backinks are the BIGGEST factor in getting your site high up Googles' front page: that is, loads of quality links to your site from important, relevant sites. But what EXACTLY makes a quality backlink in the eyes of Google is hard to determine. If you use Google's ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/when-is-a-backlink-not-a-backlink/ Micro blogging is big news, and Twitter is the name of the game. Here are four simple ways to play. TweetDeck Based on on Adobe's Air platform, TweetDeck splits up your Tweets into handy customisable columns: All Updates, Replies and Direct Messages. But it goes further by providing filtering to separate the ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/four-cool-aps-to-twitter-with/ It's not a good time, is it? Not bread queues and soup kitchens, to be sure, but it is very hard to be optimistic. Still. it is said that every cloud has a silver lining it seems and for SEO it may be that people are seeing Organic Search  in a ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/searching-for-a-silver-lining-to-the-cloud/ When people think of SEO, the name that inevitably comes to mind is Google. Around three-quarters of the world's search traffic comes through Google and many people have it as their home page. Getting your site high on Google's index is important, and every SEO professional claims they are best at ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/google-news-is-good-news-for-seo/ It's early days for the new Scene on the Net. The sad fact is that we're not getting the level of spidering by the search engines we'd like. The major reason for this is that the old Scene wasn't really updated very much: we said what we needed to say and ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/how-we-let-a-customer-lead-the-way/ One of the casualties of the Big Crash just before Christmas was JustWebContent.com, a blog I ran on good content for websites. JWC was set up in mid 2007 as a blatant exercise in self publicity and good SEO, but after other work took priority in early 2008 it fell dormant ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/a-blast-from-the-past-for-seo/ Consider this. If humans were descended from cats, horror movies would not be dark and foreboding -- the scary thing would be smells, not shadows and unlit streets. It's almost certain that smellivision would have been invented before television. However, our primate ancestors lived in savannah and forest, where smells can ... http://www.sceneonthe.net/say-what-you-like-in-12-seconds/