Adsense ad units have been revamped.
New versions of the Google Adsense units will soon be available.
AVstel Ltd. (P.Louis) looking for a web designer / La société AVstel cherche un web designer.
New on the Bureau: Web Design jobs for Mauritian web designers. AVStel Ltd is looking for a web designer. Check it out here.
The new Yahoo! & Bing search engine is being tested.
Yahoo! is officially testing Microsoft Bing’s engine as a replacement of its own search tool. Find out what new levers will now have to activate.
Using FIR [Fahrner Image Replacement] – Part 1 – Basic implementation.
The FIR, Fahrner Image Replacement, is an old technique that could be the ancestor of Cufòn or the new Typekits or Google Fonts. Following popular demand, here is the first part of a tutorial on the subject showing the basic use of the technique. This will be supercharging your CSS-fu.
Studying levels of influence before launching your email marketing campaign.
Launching an email marketing campaign might seem easy at first sight. It can however be optimised to maximise conversion rates and continuous sales through an analysis of the influence the recipient has in its field.
Driving targeted traffic to your site: 3-5% bounce rate!
Making a 3.19% traffic bounce rate is what the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius achieved over a whole year. It is not magic nor does it depend on an SEO secret… just writing for one’s targeted traffic.
Beating Google Adwords competition by using your competitor’s brand name.
This post is dedicated to Google Adwords. If you’ve never thought about using it to beat your competition on Google, you might be interested to know some of the inner functionalities of the tool that might get your business to beat the competition using brand names.
Google Caffeine will now force companies to blog.
The major impact of Google Caffeine is that it will be using a different kind of indexation that will be giving a lead to blog culture. Find out how companies will have to implement blogs to stay in the SEO race.
WordPress 3.0 might have feed errors. Fix them!
Upgrading your blog to WordPress 3.0 might generate a recurrent RSS feed error. Here is a tutorial on how to correct it.
Yahoo! Search will be switching to the Bing engine – anti Google Caffeine?
Google has created a havoc when launching “Google Caffeine”. The new algorithm is fast and bringing new dimensions to search results. This has however accelerated the partnership between Yahoo! and Bing for the search engine implementation of the Microsoft solution. How and why is this taking place.
Year 3, cranky but working.
New year, new template, new servers…
Custom Search: make the most out of Google Maps with optimized geolocation results
Ever thought of optimising your business for local search? Alice Bourseau covers the great abilities of Google Maps and how you can make the tool work for your business on local searches. Make the most out of Google Maps with this great article.
Google MAYDAY update is affecting long tail keyword rankings.
A huge Google update called “Mayday” is being rolled out on the search engine and it is primarily affecting long tail keywords ranking.
Smashing Magazine has changed, will the trend whores also change?
Have you noticed the changed Smashing Magazine has made to its editorial line? Will the trendbwhores copying the trend setting website’s new policies too? This article covers the history and the reasons for the swift changes Smashing Magazine has been making for some months.
The secret of strong and em tags.
Find out the real sense, use and utility of the strong and the em tags. What do they have more than the b and i tags and how to use them. You will have a full overview of them all and their use in accessibility and SEO in this article.
Round up of the best posts of April 2010 on the Bureau.
The Web Design Bureau of Mauritius seems to have reached a new level in terms of web presence and traffic over the past month. This is why I have decided to make an overview of the most viewed posts each month. What might be somewhat disturbing is that some of the most viewed posts might have not been published over the past month.
