Responsive web design is the solution to avoid making several sites to be compatible for the  the endless number of new devices and screen resolutions being used to access the web. Specially the increasing popularity of interfacing with the web on mobile devices. Everything from iPads and tablets,  iPhones, smartphones, mobile phones, video game consoles, TVs, netbooks, Kindles and other e-readers are used to access the web. Websites with a responsive design mean your website will display perfectly on all these devices, without the need for separate mobile themes.

Responsive websites are becoming more and more popular, and there is a growing industry to cater for all types of websites including: magazine, portfolio, gallery, personal blog, business, ecommerce, music and even real estate websites. we design stylish unique responsive websites. Contact us for more details if you would like to get a responsive website developed.

1. Teach them and they will stay – If there is something useful for your visitors to learn, something of interest then your visitors will stay on your site. Then again if you have boring outdated content don’t be surprized when they leave your site quickly. You should not be filling your pages with all kinds of jargon because that will also send your visitors away.
2. Have a site map – this will make navigation easy and visitors could find what they want quite fast.  Search engine bots also like sitemaps and they will index your content quite nicely.
3. Add a blog – adding a blog to your site seems to be the latest tend and rightfully so. Its easy to add a blog into your site and keep blogging, this will build up your sites overall content and more the content you have the better it will be.
4. Its time you get fresh – this means that your website contents need to be updated quite regularly and if its relevant it need to be up to date with the latest trends and whats happening in the world.
5. Pictures and descriptions of your product / service – if you are marketing a product or service then you must include pictures of each item along with a description.  The descriptions you write should be catchy and it should have a call to action to convert sales.

By doing the above 5 simple things in your website you could increase your conversion rates and isn’t that what you want?

If you need help to design or develop your website feel free to contact us at info@extreme.web.lk or call us at +94773155222 to speak to one of our consultants.

Real estate is one of the businesses that have gained the most from the Internet boom. From a larger client base to better market presence, their strengths have been magnified a hundredfold simply by being online. Even today, more and more real estate professionals are putting up their own sites. Some businesses have even started and flourished entirely on the Web.

Still not convinced? Here are some reasons why you should build a website for your real estate business today.

Search engine traffic. Studies show that about 70% of buyers eventually find homes from online listings, particularly from those that turn up in online searches. That’s a figure you definitely can’t ignore. If you’re not online, search engines can’t find you, and your market is limited to the 30% who still rely on the good old local paper. Have a search engine optimization (SEO) professional take charge of the marketing so that you get more steady traffic.

Increased access to listings. Joining the online marketplace allows you to submit your site to directories and home listings, most of which have a steady following. It’s like getting free (or at least cheap) publicity on a regular basis. These sites are also run by brokers, agents, and real estate firms—the same people that make up your professional network.

Customer contact. If you’re an agent or broker, you know how important it is to maintain communication with your clients. But often, that means being in the office all day. With a website, you can set up a contact page where clients can leave you messages and update you on their status. Even if you’re not there yourself, it gives them some peace of mind knowing that they can reach your office anytime.

Cheaper advertising. Much of a real estate company’s expense goes to advertising homes in mainstream print. Often, an ad has to run for several weeks before it goes off the market. With a website, you can advertise on your own pages, complete with full-color graphics, for a fraction of the cost. You can even pull it up a notch with 3D tours and interactive displays.

Low quality websites are filtered

Google released many updates in ranking algorithms recently which tried to filter low quality websites from their search results.

Scraper websites or any website which has low quality content does not get high ranks anymore. Because of these changes in the latest Google algorithm changes, some sites have experienced a traffic drop of  70% or more.

To do: don’t try to promote your website with quick-fix solutions. Quality is more important than quantity.

Search has become social

Social impressions like the amount of Google +1 clicks, tweets and Facebook mentions now influence the position of websites on Google search result pages.

To do: add social sharing buttons to your website and encourage your website visitors to mention your website on social networks.

Search results are more than just links

most of the web pages shown on Google shows more than a list of 10 web pages. Search results not includes images, news and local information etc..

To do: use a holistic approach to promote your website: optimize the content of your web pages, get good backlinks to your website, offer local services, submit videos about your business to Google to make sure that your website gets listed in all possible places on Google’s result page.

Page speed has become a ranking signal

Web surfers tend to be more happier if they get what they want quickly as possible. Even though website speed is only a minor factor in Googles ranking algorithms, it makes sense to optimize the loading speed and performance in your website.

To do: make sure that your web design and web development is done properly to load as quickly as possible.

It’s not just Google: Yahoo/Bing is getting more important

Although we all know that Google has the biggest market share, Yahoo and Bing has a combined market share of 33%. So if you are not getting 33% of traffic from Yahoo and Bing you should start to optimize your website for these search engines as well.

To do: if you want to get 33% more visitors, optimize some of your pages for Yahoo/Bing.

A lot of things have changed recently and we continually update our optimization techniques and be up to date with the latest search engine algorithm changes.  If you need help to optimize your website feel free to contact us at info@extreme.web.lk or call us at +94773155222 to speak to one of our seo consultants.

But on the other hand, Google’s algorithms have become more intelligent and they have released the Panda Update so that spammers and seo shortcut experts  could be detected and penalized by dropping their ranks by assessment of certain techniques used. Google has set certain terms of service for website optimization and they could be found in the Google Webmaster Guidelines. any SEO strategy failing to stick by these rules will be penalized.

Google Penalties for those who do not follow guidelines set.

Domain Level Redundancy:
Duplicated websites are one of the biggest causes of getting penalized. If a website DNS is pointed from various domains to a single web directory which causes each domain to display exactly the same contents and Google detects it, then Google penalizes and a trademark suspension is imposed.

Content Redundancy:
Using the same content on multiple websites or web pages usually triggers a content duplication penalty. Even if you copy someone else’s content or if someone else copies yours then it could trigger a penalty because automated algorithms cannot detect who owns the original content. in this event the authority of content is lost even of the index page if duplicated content is substantial.

Sub domain Issues:
Sub domains could not be considered as if they were content of the primary website. It should have its own content and structures could not be shared from the primary site. penalties are imposed if the sub domains are not being implemented properly as separate domains and used for boosting the rank in search results.

Issue of Bad Neighbors:
Penalties are triggered according to the reputation of the websites your website is linked to. Spam websites, doorway pages, link farms and other sites with explicit content are included in the bad neighbors. Link farms are basically websites without any relevant content but just links to other websites.

Linking with Google Banned Websites:
If you are linking to websites which are banned by Google, then they assume that you are supporting those websites and penalize.
There are loads of other penalties Google impose which everyone has to avoid doing. therefore you should try not to implement those SEO techniques and strictly abide to Google terms of service.

If you would like your website to be optimized with the proper knowledge and not getting banned, contact our seo consultants at Extreme Web SEO Sri Lanka at +94773155222 or click here.

Quick Response Codes (QR Codes) combine the power of print marketing, mobile marketing and the internet to improve response rates on printed marketing collateral. By simply taking a photo of a QR Code, a small two-dimensional bar code on print materials, smart phone users can access more information about a promotion, event or product via their web-enabled phone. Essentially, QR Codes have website links embedded in them, directing users to your desired webpage without having to type the URL in manually.

The ability to respond to a marketing piece or advertisement instantly via a mobile phone makes QR codes one of the most innovative cross-media marketing tools available.

Enjoy increased response rates with tracking capabilities to see who is responding to your QR code-enabled marketing piece. Smart analytics and custom reports will let you see response rates, location of your recipients and more.

QR Codes are ideal for:

• Print Catalogs and Advertisements: QR codes can take readers directly to your ecommerce site or product detail, simplifying the entire order process.
• Event Registration and RSVPs: Add QR codes to promotional pieces such as invitations and time-sensitive pieces to give recipients the ability to respond instantly and automatically add the event to their calendar.
• Coupons: Offer virtual coupons using QR codes.
• Personalized URLs (PURLs): Increase the response rate of your direct mail pieces by combining PURLs with QR codes.

Increase the potential of your print marketing collateral with the aid of QR codes for improved response rates and better return on investment (ROI). To learn more about how QR codes can increase the success of your next print campaign, contact us at Extreme Web by calling us at +9477-3155-222 or request a quote now!

1. Trust: old websites have an advantage

It takes some time until Google shows new websites in the search results. Although you can submit your website to Google, Google will only index your website if other websites link to your site.

You have to earn Google’s trust before your website will get lasting high rankings. A new website can get good rankings for less competitive keywords but it usually takes about 6 months to gain the minimum level of trust that is necessary to get high rankings.

2. Optimization: make it easy to parse your pages

It can be relatively easy to get top rankings on search engines if you have an established website that blocked Google by mistake (a broken robots.txt file or problems with the website navigation).

But you need to make sure that it is as easy as possible for search engines to index your web pages. The better search engines can parse your pages, the more likely it is that your web pages will be added to the index.

Optimize the content of your web pages to make sure that your pages will be found for the right keywords.

3. Keywords and competitors: it’s not good to compete with Amazon

The keywords that you target are a very important factor. The more competitive your keywords are, the longer you have to wait and the more backlinks you need.

If the websites that are ranked in the top 10 results for your keyword all have thousands of backlinks and thousands of pages then it’s not likely that your website will be able to get in the top 10 results if it has 10 backlinks and 20 pages.

Start with very targeted multiple word keyphrases and then proceed to the more competitive keywords when your website has good content and inbound links.

4. Backlinks: the better the links, the faster your site will be listed

The more backlinks a website has, the quicker Google will pick up the changes on your website. If your website has great content but only a few backlinks, then it won’t get high rankings.

High rankings on Google take some time. You have to optimize your web pages and you have to get good inbound links. Without these two factors, it is not possible to get high rankings on Google.

The number of inbound links is a very important factor. If you have optimized web pages but no links, then you have to build these links and you have to wait longer. If your website has a lot of inbound links then you will get high rankings quickly if you optimize your pages.

If you need help in optimizing your website for search engines, contact us at extreme web. We will take care of your problems

Typically sprites are used for small images — like icon sets or small logo images — though you can use them for larger images as well.

The only problem with sprites is that creating them can be a hassle, particularly if you need a rather large sprite, say all the icons in an online game. Opening dozens of tiny icon images and pasting them into a single document is time-consuming. Fortunately there’s the CSS Sprite Generator, which takes a zipped file of all your images and gives you a single image sprite.

The CSS Sprite Generator even has options to fix a bug in older version of Opera, resize the width and height of the input images and generate CSS classes to apply your sprites to the right elements.

Users visiting the admin section of WordPress.com with IE 6 will now see a message to upgrade their browser (the same message will appear in the self-hosted WordPress 3.2 when it is released in June). The WordPress blog says it’s dropping IE 6 because, “it has required increasingly complex code trickery to make the WordPress dashboard work in the IE 6 browser, which was introduced 10 years ago and does not support current web standards.”

WordPress is just the latest in a long list of sites that have abandoned IE 6, including Gmail, YouTube, Basecamp and hundreds of others.

Indeed you’d be hard pressed to find a web developer who wants to keep supporting IE 6. Even Microsoft has set up a website that essentially dances on the grave of IE 6 (after WordPress announced it would drop IE 6, Microsoft actually said “thank you WordPress“).

However, according to Net Applications, IE 6 still has almost 12 percent user share worldwide. In the U.S. the number is just under 3 percent, but in China it’s still nearly 35 percent.

Compounding the problem are the number of corporate intranets that require IE 6. Microsoft is hard at work trying to convince large corporations to upgrade — if you’re still using IE 6, that means you haven’t upgraded to Windows 7, which is Microsoft’s real goal with the kill IE 6 campaign — but for Microsoft’s biggest customers, upgrading means investing millions of dollars in new infrastructure.

While developers may enjoy dropping IE 6 because of its subpar support for web standards, for end users that’s generally not a concern. What is, or at least should be, the bigger concern for users is that IE 6 is less secure.

If you’re part of the tiny segment of users that can — but haven’t — upgraded from IE 6, we suggest doing so. Grab a copy of Firefox or Chrome and join the modern web.

Sri Lanka is joining the major global awareness campaign to reduce green house emissions for the first time and Extreme Web proudly sponsors the web and online awareness campaigns.

Earth Hour is a global event organized by the World Wildlife Fund is held on the last Saturday of March annually to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change and global warming.

An Associated Press report said the Sydney Opera House was one of the first landmarks to turn off the lights on Saturday and Asian cities followed Australia and New Zealand in turning lights off.

Landmarks in all over the world including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Empire State Building in New York and the famous Las Vegas strip will go dark to observe the Earth Hour.