One of the services I offer on BWI is my usability and design analysis. I thought as a nice little way to recognize some these site owners that had ordered an analysis, is by doing a site of the month plug for the best one. Basically, when I do an analysis I will track each sites score. The best site for the month will then get a free plug on BWI.

To help kick off this new web design contest I am also offering five free analyses, and to compete for that check out this post: Website Design Contest.

Announcements contest, website design

Last night I put out  new post on BWI about how I think Google is starting to demand more than a lump of a website, Google Wants You to Be More Specific.

It’s a post I put a little more time into so I hope you check it out. I believe this will be the trend for Web 3.0 or schematic websites. The trend is, it’s time to start lining your ducks in a row, and stop leaving Google or other search engines to do all the work. You could ignore the subtle clues Google is suggesting, but if you do, you will simply lose out to those that have a well organized site. You know heading tags work, you know sitemaps are important, meta tags have been doing it forever, but microforats or rich snippets as Google calls them, will soon be playing a larger roll. Check out the post, and see what I mean, and please make a comment on it if you have in insight to this.

Google Wants You to Be More Specific

Website Tips, seo bwi, google, microformats, rich snippets

Here is nice little website checklist if you are a small business owner with a website. It basically ensures you are covering the basics.

Announcements, Tools, Website Tips

Another webmaster I know has started a new blog, Create A Website for Free. It’s still a baby, so don’t expect much in layout and style, but the content is good. His latest post offers tips on improving your sites design. The blog is being developed for new website developers just starting out. You can find posts about tools you can use, plugins for your site, how to create a free site, and more.

Websites and Blogs free, website

Calling all hosting companies! Here is a killer domain name for you that is for sale. I know a bunch of you that read WCFA have your own hosting sites, well here is a great domain name for you, Personal Web Hosting. How is that for slam dunking the keywords?

The site is not actually owned by me. Just one I came across, and thought it would make a killer domain name for one of you out there. The site has literally been squatted on. It’s been around since 2001, and has only accumulated about five back links. Looking at the Way Back Machine it looks like it has really has not done anything. Apparently, a great idea that never developed.

This could be a really killer web hosting domain name; keyword rich, has PR so you know Google still likes it, and is also well aged. I didn’t see it listed anywhere, so it look like it’s a for sale by owner kind of deal. You can find all his contact information under the For Sale sign on the website. If you have never bought a domain name from someone who owns it already, I would always suggest using a third party to handle the transaction. I have heard of too many cases going sour on this kind of stuff.

If you get it, post it here, and let us know!

Websites and Blogs web hosting