It’s Friday once again and this week on ‘Focus we’re looking at very “domestic” looking sites, like they were put together with fabrics, thread, and craft supplies!

With Google’s new emphasis on brands, it’s important to have brand building as one of the pillars to your SEO strategy. Here are 3 principles to keep in mind.

Links are still very important to increasing your search engine traffic yet many webmasters are ineffective with their link building. Here are three common link building mistakes as well as ways to avoid them.

If you want to make some extra money from your site, an effective monetization method is reviewing products that help you with your web work.

SEMRush is a new keyword tool that lets you see the top keywords that generate traffic for a site.

Different sites require different SEO strategies to be fully successful in the search engine rankings.

Focus is one of the most important aspects of design—you need to tell the audience which elements are important and which aren’t. This week’s featured sites execute this idea well, and even take it to the next level. See if these designs don’t grab your attention at all!

Welcome to the first Friday Focus for the month of July. This week: strong bursts of color and collapsible content. Curious combination? Read on!

It’s Friday the 13th, so let’s celebrate this eerie date with some dark designs.

Outside of content, site growth can be directly affected by when, how, and where you market your site. There are all types of forms in which this can achieved: banner advertisements, text link ads, and viral advertisements. Then of course, there are the alternative methods – the so called hit and SEO boosters, or even [...]

Running a personal blog can be great. You have total free reign on the topics, you can build relationships with readers and you can express yourself in any way you like.
Running a well read, well visited personal blog is even better. It’s no secret that the best traffic is organic traffic, from search engines.
The reason [...]

One of the first things that should be incorporated into a design is a strategy towards search engine friendliness. With the wealth of blogging platforms available, it isn’t immediately apparent what one can do to make a blog more search engine friendly. Sure, an author can lace the content with keywords and constantly [...]