Improve Your Website Performance: SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Is Equal to Google Analytics?
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 08:25
In my website conformance checklist I present SEO (Search Engine Optimization) best practices. A client of mine, exploiting 500+ websites for freelance professionals, invited me to discuss the website conformance checklist.
Web 3.0 Is Coming!
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 12/06/2010 - 04:59
Companies are busy implementing Web 2.0: Functionality and Web Standards Conformance Best Practices. It is now time to start thinking about Web 3.0!
My Curriculum Vitae (CV) Assessment Checklist
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 29/05/2010 - 04:33
A client asked me to review a Curriculum Vitae (CV). He thought the candidate was very suited for a project he run. I was asked to give a 2nd opinion.
My Website Conformance Check Best Practices
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 15/05/2010 - 04:30
Forrester Research has executed a web-site check on 6 Canadian banks. The results were very bad. The most common short comings were misplaced content and functionality, inefficient task flows, illegible text and poor use of space.
Yesterday: Content Is King! Today: Content Was King!
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 01/05/2010 - 05:40
Sometime ago I wrote about my Drupal migration project. In one month time the traffic to that site is reduced from more than 3,000 per month to 2 per day. Google displays the home page in search results more than 1,000 times, but less than 10 persons click through to this page. What goes on? How to repair it?
Do You Already Have A Lean Mindset?
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 03/04/2010 - 05:04
I thought I had one! After writing blogs like Quality Is King (The Theory), Quality Is King (The Pizza Restaurant Example), and Reduce Complexity and Rise Your EBIT! I thought I was definitely on the right way. However, AT Kearney recently brought the Toyota case to my attention.
My Complexity Reduction Checklist (Or: 5Whys [5 Times Why] Is So Abstract!)
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 20/03/2010 - 06:05
In my last blog I advocated the 5Whys methodology as an approach to arrive at lean systems and to reduce complexity. Many of you considered this an abstract advice, and asked me whether I could give an example.
Reduce Complexity: State Key Business Requirements (KBR's)!
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 06/03/2010 - 06:50
Steven van het Veld, a well-known Dutch independent principal (enterprise) information architect, claims that companies spend more on their website than on their enterprise architecture. This statement seems to be in line with something else I recently heard: Organizations spend much more on their website than on business process improvement, while the Return On Investment (ROI) of business process improvement is much higher.
Transitioning a Large, 10 Year Old Website to Drupal
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 20/02/2010 - 05:33
Since about a year an old friend of mine is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Europa Fietsers (European Cycle Route Foundation). His largest asset, and problem child, is their website. Recently he asked my opinion on how to improve it.
On KPI's and Governmental Organizations
Submitted by Hans Lodder on Sat, 06/02/2010 - 05:33
This week I got a question from a reader regarding KPI's for a CIO at a Department of Defense. He wanted to know whether we could present KPI's to be fully accountable by the CIO. Now my Results2Match partner, Hans van Nes, once responded to a similar question of a reader: KPI's for a not-for-profit environment.
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