NEWS ON WEB SITE SERVICES FOR UK FIRMS
Developments in the marketplace and our web site services for UK and overseas markets
Welcome to the Net Commerce Solutions news pages on developments in the marketplace and in our web site services for UK and overseas business clients.
INTERNET TRENDS AND NEWS
Mar 2010: Accessibility - W3C, the worldwide authority body for many web standards, published WCAG 2.O in 2009. This updated Accessibility Standard will succeed the existing standard WCAG 1.0 which has applied for many years.
The standards statement comprises four principles, underpinned by 9 guidelines, which are set out in some detail.
NCS have already announced that they are adopting the SortSite tool offered by Electrum Solutions as part of the NCS accessibility validation process. - SortSite provides evaluation of both WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0.
NCS will announce shortly its enhanced Accessibility Service, spanning PC and mobile web access. Updates on web developments are provided by NCS regularly in its newsletter.
WEB DEVELOPMENTS AND NEWS FROM NCS
May 2010 - NCS regular newsletter, NetNews, issued. The main article offered Email tips, drawing on extensive NCS experience in building and managing Email marketing campaigns.
March 2010 - Free Directories: the attitude of the Search Engines towards paid directories has increased the importance of being entered in highly ranked free directories. Research by NCS over a two month period to review c2,000 directories, described as "Free", found that only approximately 5% were actually free.
Many concealed their fees, until the final stage of the submission process, eg a "submission fee". Others concealed, until late in the submission process, the fact that a reciprocal link would be needed before entry was allowed.
NCS SERVICE DEVELOPMENTS
April 2010 - Local Search Focus - NCS has increased the Local Search focus in its Search Engine services. This includes Bing and Google Map submissions, and site tailoring to incorporate local contacts, location and services.
An Article is being published, explaining the increasing importance of getting better rankings in Local Search results.
August 2010 - Link Popularity Ranking - for the 3rd time this year, NCS has been ranked the in the top 10 of the UK's Best Link Popularity Services Company by TopSeo. com - the highly ranked independent authority on search vendors.
NCS provides an extensive range of link popularity services to its clients.
April 2010 - Article Publication: Email Marketing - NCS has published its first article on Email Marketing. This will be the first of three - the next two will deal with email marketing management, and email marketing legal and ethical issues
May 2010 -Web Promotion News - Online Press Releases and Article Marketing Services are part of the web promotion services offered by NCS.
The OnLine News Release service now uses both major international news release agencies, and a number of high quality UK agencies selected by NCS.
April 2010 - Spam Threshold Announcement - NCS provides extensive email management support for its clients, including guidance to minimise your emails being rejected as spam. In our view an email campaign which generates more than 0.3% complaints should be regarded as Spam.
This is likely to cause reputational and operational issues for senders, and it may be necessary to suspend campaigns where we believe guidelines have not been observed.
February 2010 - NCS ForumLink Services - NCS has defined its Forum link building service, NCS ForumLink. It enables clients to locate high quality forums, register their profiles, and maintain a programme to steadily build their forum inputs, in order to increase their inbound link volumes.
As Directories increasingly become Paid, or reciprocal only, it is important for our clients to use non-directory link building opportunites, eg Online Press Releases, Article Marketing, and Forum/Blog submissions.
May 2010 - Link Building Services - the volume of NCS inbound links exceeded 2,050 by end 2009, reflecting use of full span of link building activities including Article Marketing, and Online News Releases and Forum contributions.
This sustained link building for our own site normally delivers a page one/two position in Google for the key term "Hertfordshire Web Designers"
Link building services are a key part of NCS web promotion services. Please contact us if you would like help with your link popularity programme
August 2010 - Online News Releases - NCS is issuing its 6th online news release - approximately 50 additional links are anticipated. This step, allied to Article Marketing, makes a significant contribution to the growth in our inbound link volumes - see above under Link Building Services.
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