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Google places a real live email link to pat@example.com on the Google account login screen. Though I'm sure it's intended to improve usability it has the opposite effect. They placed the pat@example.com link smack dab in between the email (login/username) field and the password field. Keyboard savvy users normally use the tab key to move … Continue reading pat@example.com Google Usability Tweak
Wordtracker keywords (Photo credit: Matthew Burpee) Update: Eight years later, yet another SEO data vendor failed me, so I did a more recent piece on that reporting vendor search. Here's the original 2010 piece on the frustrating state of keyword research way back when. I recently reluctantly renewed my subscription to Wordtracker, a keyword research … Continue reading Wordtracker KEI Fail, Wordtracker Alternatives & SEO News
File this one under Microsoft usability nightmares. I was visiting one of my W3 standards compliant pages using Internet Explorer 8 to check for cross-browser layout/rendering consistency when I noticed that IE8 served a pop-up. I was not pleased to learn that I could press the compatibility view button to fix problems in pages made … Continue reading Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View SNAFU
WebPosition was pretty great until Infospace bought them in 2009. Then came the outages. What was once a wonderfully supported suite of SEO SERP tools turned into a nightmare. The newly released Webposition is a web-only interface (vs. software you install on your computer.) Whereas you used to pay a few hundred bucks to own … Continue reading Need Help Finding a WebPosition Replacement
Through better usability (and other practices) we can turn more of your visitors into customers. This article is back from when I thought it was smart to cover several disparate topics in an single post. 🤔 A client asked me to clarify a few suggestions I'd queued for their project. While I don't offer much … Continue reading SEO, Typography, Usability – Advice to a client
Knowing when to use a 301 redirect is crazy phat knowledge dwarfed only by the power of not using a 301 redirect when you should have...
Dan Dreifort 