Google Announces new Ranking Factor

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) gurus and Website developers take note; Google may soon be including Page Load speed into its ranking algorithm for organic search. This certainly makes sense and has been coming for a long time. Google values its very fast page load speeds and views this as a significant competitive advantage. If Google [...]

Avoid Spam – Mask your Email Address

If you have ever put your email address on your website you will know how quickly spambots get your email addres and email huge numbers of messages to your address. There are various scripts (mostly javascript) available which attempt to fool spambots (i.e. hide your email address from spammers) however these scripts are largely ineffective. [...]

Top 10 Country Brands 2009

Well done to Australia which has been named as number 3 on the FutureBrand ‘2009 Country Brand Index‘. Australia has a very good international reputation as is realized through the numerous reports listing Australia as a great place to live, do work and visit. Below is the media release from FutureBrand: UNITED STATES CLAIMS #1 [...]

Is a Mobile Phone really a Telephone?

It’s interesting that we continue to refer to Mobile (or Cell) Phones even although their use has clearly evolved from a ‘device that transmits and receives sound, most commonly the human voice‘.  Mobile Phones and how their use has changed over the years is a great example of the Product Development strategy as proposed by Igor [...]