Archive for November, 2008

Twitter has been out for a good few months now and alot of industry experts seem to be signing up /have already signed up to use it as another communication medium.

Although I’m still relatively new to the whole thing (around three months) I’m loving it! My followers and following lists are slowly growing, not as much as I would like, and I’m definately getting alot out of it by reading other peoples views and opinions on various subjects. Infact it’s becomming a vital place to gather alot of interesting links for graphics packs and css tips that other people are tweeting about.

If you’re signed up to twitter please feel free to add me or alternatively if you are already signed up please leave your twitter url at the top of your post, so other posters can view your page, and let me know your opinions on the site and what you have got out from it so far.

If your interested in all this social media malarkey feel free to browse my lifestream page which incorporates all of my social medium streams, including twitter.

Twenty Bad Ideas

I’ve decided to fire up a quick blog post highlighting twenty things which, in my opinion, make a bad website. Obviously there will be a lot more and that is where you, the readers, come in.

I’ll get the ball rolling with my twenty.

Copyright date or the last modified date on pages not being updated.
Lots of 404 pages
A high bounce rate (surfers having to use their back buttons and selecting another result.)
A lot of duplicate content.
Whois info for the domain is the same as other domains previously penalised or banned.
Domains previously used for spam or that are blacklisted.
Use of/links to affiliate programs that are known scams.
Massive numbers of incoming links from link farms.
Stagnation of the site.
Excessively long URL’s
A high percentage of affiliate links versus that of regular outbound links.
No / very few outbound and inbound links.
All inbound links are to homepage only.
Outbound links to spam sites.
Spelling errors.
Lack of interest from social bookmarking sites.
MySQL or PHP errors in the pages.
No published contact address, email address or phone number.
Contains unrelated subjects (a site that reviews SEO and tries to sell something unrelated.)
Profanity or explicitly adult language on a non-adult site.

Now it’s your turn.