Raidx.co.uk- The UK Based Social Bookmarking Site

Saturday, 6. December 2008

Raidx.co.uk is digg like site targeted to UK & European users, it let you discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, users can vote and comment on submitted links and stories. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the stories which get vote and those which are submitted recently and approved appear on the front page. Raidx.co.uk let you share Science & Technology News, Web Hosting, World & Business and latest news, this is the way you should feel that you’re reading newspaper. The functionality is more likely similar to digg with an average social voting system where users can vote the best submission and add comment.

Raidx.co.uk is rapidly growing with the number of users and resources of quality content within a short span of time; it is officially launched on October 14th  2008. This is possible only because the contribution of users, the site is updated regularly with fresh content making it useful for everyone.

Current stats by the time writing this article:

Members: 549
Total Links: 316
Published: 314
Votes: 969

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Raidx.co.uk invites people from different field to get involved in sharing their knowledge and experience of various products and services available especially in UK & European Market through bookmarking. Raidx.co.uk is all about sharing and exposure; so before submission people should make an honest effort to contribute ONLY Useful links.

Usability and search engine visibility

Saturday, 20. September 2008

Usability and search engine visibility both are integral part of a website while you would like to make your site more viewable. If you care both starting from your web design it will overall help you in visibility and enhance your web presence. Here are few guidelines;

* Create less fancy site, adhere w3c guideline while developing your website.

* The web pages should load less than 5 second and avoid using flash which will delay the time of loading.

* If you’re using flash, use in limitation and also provide HTML version for your users.

* Test your website on popular browsers to check Cross browser compatibility.

* Use universal name for your menu option like About Us, Home, Contact Us, Products, and Site Map and avoid using trendy words.

* Put your navigation in specific categories and position simple text navigation at the bottom for the long pages and also add link that point to depth information about your website.

* Link your logo to your homepage and point a link to your homepage on all internal pages.

* If you’ve large database consider displaying a breadcrumb trail showing the path from the homepage to the page where you are.

* Represent your website with best keywords in your Titles & Descriptions.

* Add simple text links that robots can follow.

* If your site has many pages, set a custom search box on your home page and avoid placing search button for “entire web”.

* Create a custom error page and display a simple site map or the links to the main section of your site.

* Use Google webmaster tools which will help you to diagnose your website from different point of view.

Also Optimization of web pages is most important factor to obtain high search engine rankings, follow Google’s quality guidelines for search engine optimization and do keyword research, link building, and update your website with useful content on regular basis. Also Start Networking using different social sites which will help you in traffic and to enhance your web presence. I’ve covered just few factors however you should take holistic approach to refer few useful resources which can help you to make your web site more viewable because this is very vast topic.