As promised, here are the next 5 ways on how you can improve your to make it more user-centric and deliver a positive browsing experience to your user (read Website Improvement Tips Part 1 in case you missed it).
6. Avoid Pop-up windows – Before you think about using a pop-up window to ‘enhance’ your website [...]

Website Bounce Rate is a measure within Google Analytics of how many people website visitors left the website without having gone any further than the initial entry point (page). In other words, it tracks the single-page visits and is expressed in percentage.
Why you should be paying attention to your website’s Bounce Rate
It gives an [...]

Most e-commerce websites convert 2-3% of their visitors to a sale. Highly customer-centric sites like Amazon or Proflowers convert about 9.6% and 14.1% (yes, incredible!).
One way to increase your online sales is to tempt buyers with additional items that may be of interest to them. This is known as upselling and when done correctly, can [...]

Everyday we come across many websites and notice minor usability weaknesses which may be making a negative impact on the website’s conversion rates. Website Usability Optimization is an area where ‘Small changes that make a big difference’ holds especially true!
Here are some basic Website Improvement Tips that although extremely simple, will help make your site [...]

Google Australia recently launched Gday, a new search engine (currently in BETA testing mode) which can apparently give you tomorrow’s search results today. Here’s an excerpt from their official launch:
Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future.
Google spiders crawl publicly available web information [...]

The following has been compiled with the help of 39 respondents who kindly gave us their time over the phone for a short survey.
Our main research task was to find out what made website visitors leave the website homepage without even clicking on a single link.  There have been extensive research done on this in the [...]

Just noticed this on the Photodex website:
On each page, there is a line of text which reads ‘Customer Service Lines are currently OPEN (or CLOSED, depending). 
Not only does this prompt you to contact the company should you have a query, it also helps overseas website users/customers save time and money on a phone call outside [...]

The potential uses of Facebook just keep increasing..
A law firm in Cranberra posted an eviction notice to a couple who failed to keep up repayments on their loan borrowings. After several failed attempts by the lawyers to contact the couple, they decided to place the eviction notice on the couple’s Facebook profile. What’s more, due [...]

Google released Google Zeitgeist 2008 which is basically a list compiling the most common as well as the fastest rising search terms on Google.
Fastest rising:

iplayer
facebook
iphone
youtube
yahoo mail
large hadron collider
obama
friv
cam4
jogos

Most popular: 

facebook
bbc
youtube
ebay
games
news
hotmail
bebo
yahoo
jobs

BBC’s iplayer cetainly seems to have taken off and rightly so: being able to watch your favourite tv shows upto 14 days after being aired is incredibly helpful.
You can [...]

Whilst reviewing some of the free online WYSIWYG website editors available learnt something pretty interesting: Danone’s Hungarian website is built using Saurapool, a free and easy to use online website creator.
Sure, times are tough..but this??