Looking Beyond Google PageRank: Alternative SEO Metrics
When it comes to SEO, Google’s PageRank (PR), which is the most used SEO ranking metric, is vague and unhelpful. Although most SEOs would agree that it’s an indication of a page’s popularity (or power), it’s unclear why that’s so or exactly how popular a ranked website is.
For example, for a website with a PR of 7 — and as a point of reference, this website has a PR of 6 — most people would assume it’s a popular, and thus powerful, website.
But that’s not always the case, and there are quite a lot of exceptions.
50 Beautifully Blue Logo Designs
The color blue, in many cultures, symbolizes wisdom, trust, depth, intelligence, confidence, faith, and truth. It’s the color of the sky and the ocean, and so it’s also often associated with tranquility and calmness. Below are 50 examples of blue logos. Notice the variety of blues, from lapis lazuli to sky blue, used in these logos.
If you liked this collection, you might also want to check out this collection of 30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs.
Announcement: Winners of PhotoEQ Image Editing Software
Recently, we hosted a giveaway for 10 licenses of PhotoEQ, a user-friendly and powerful image editing application for your Windows PC. In this post, you’ll find a list of the 10 Six Revisions readers who’ve won this excellent giveaway.
Tips for Creating an Excellent E-Commerce Website
A growing number of top quality designers are turning away from contract work and towards their own personal projects (such as selling WordPress premium themes, for example). From skills-based products to online consulting, the world of design goes far beyond the field of Design itself; it extends into disciplines such as online retailing and marketing — two of the most lucrative forces on the web.
Letting Bad Design Decisions Happen
For a web designer — whether you work in a design agency, a design department of a large company, or as a freelancer — it’s a rare occasion that you embark on a project totally on your own. The creation and deployment of a new website is almost always a team activity comprised of clients, employers, other designers, and developers.
Your Client Knows More Than You
"The customer is always right." It’s an often disagreeable adage, but it exists for a reason. Those of us who have had any direct client experience understand that a happy customer makes for a happy business. Return customers account for the bulk of any good design business.
Giveaway: iTunes Gift Cards and Free Software from Digiarty
Our friends at Digiarty Software have teamed up with us to give away 10 $15 iTunes gift cards (valid on the U.S. iTunes store) and a free software download for everyone in celebration of their two new products: PetsWar (an iPhone game app) and MacX iPhone Mounter (which lets you transfer files between iOS devices such as the iPhone to your Mac).
Read on to learn how to download MacX iPhone Mounter for free and how to win a $15 iTunes gift card.
