Martin Bailey regularly writes this website and supplies articles for various magazines. Here are a collection of articles, some of which have been published in trade press around the world.
Google is placing more importance on page loading times, so it’s important to make your site load fast. Of course, this has the very important benefit of making the site better for your visitors! So what steps do you need to do in order to achieve this, and what are realistic targets?
There are many companies that charge a small fortune to get your company listed higher in the search engine rankings, but this is something that anyone with basic HTML knowledge can do themselves. Furthermore, if you have a website built with a content management system then you can do most of it without additional assistance. So what are the key issues to consider?
On Wednesday 27th January 2010 Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveiled their latest creation - the iPad Tablet. Billed primarily as a consumer device, Jobs positioned the tablet somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop and priced it from an attractive US$499. But is there room for it in business, and specifically within manufacturing?
ERP is generally the single most expensive software acquisition a company will ever make, sometimes costing more than all of the standalone packages a company may have combined. Not only is it traditionally expensive, but companies rely completely upon it. So why is it that many struggle to implement such a system, or limp along for several years using partial functionality before abandoning it?
It may sound like an obvious statement, but you need to ensure that you have enough relevant text on your web site if you want search engines to take you seriously. The old adage of ‘content is king’ is still very true today. Even if you spend a small fortune promoting a site, you will not get good rankings if the content that the search engines eventually harvest does not merit their attention.