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Verndale thanks all those who participated in our “Holiday Hope for Limpopo”
campaign that took place over this past holiday season.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to donate, you may still do so by visiting our donation page.
Hurry, we’ll be closing our fundraising effort on February 3rd.
We welcome Ned Samuelson as a Business Development Executive.
Ned comes to us from the Yankee Group where he was employed as an Account Executive.
Ned earned a B.A.
from Duke University, where he also competed as a member of the University’s Varsity Tennis team.
Hiral Shah joins our team as an Engineer.
Prior to Verndale, Hiral worked as a Web Engineer for Patni Computer System Company in India, and most recently, worked as a freelance developer for the non-profit organization, South Asian Showdown.
Hiral holds a B.S.
in Computer Science from U.V.
Patel College of Engineering, Ganpat University in Mehsana, India.
Alan Kwan joins us as a HTML/UI Developer.
Alan comes to us from WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston where he was employed as a Web Developer.
Alan is currently working towards his Master of Professional Studies in Digital Media at Northeastern University.
We congratulate CRICO/RMF and Cookson Electronics – Alpha Division on the launch of their corporate websites as well as the Jewelers Board of Trade on the launch
of their extranet enhancements.
Lastly, we welcome Womble Carlyle Sandbridge & Rice, LLP and Veryst Engineering as this month’s newest clients.
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Kentico CMS is frequently making updates to enhance their platform, but the recent upgrade to version 6 constitutes as their biggest release ever.
Taking slightly more development time to release v6.0 as it did to develop all previous versions...
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Sitecore and mobile phones; it’s a huge topic holding a vague title.
It could mean this is a blog post on creating a mobile-specific site somewhere in a content tree, setting up content for ingestion by a mobile app, or even mobile content authoring...
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CMS Scorecard Review
To help identify, prioritize, and address areas of need with your current site implementation, Verndale’s CMS Scorecard Review provides a comprehensive report with prioritized recommendations aimed at improving your web assets that span from infrastructure to SEO.
Verndale’s site review and scorecard combines the following components:
- Infrastructure Review – Verndale provides complete documentation of the current infrastructure which includes key items such as Load Balancing, Switches, Web Servers, and SQL Servers to better understand the current infrastructure in place and identify opportunities for
improvement.
- Front End Review – Verndale reviews website front-end code, components that render web pages, and the performance of page rendering.
Areas reviewed in the assessment include development practices, images, XHTML, CSS, and Javascript.
- CMS Architecture and Implementation Review – Verndale reviews the CMS configuration and implementation supporting your website.
Areas reviewed in the assessment include security, CMS architecture, code architecture, SEO and performance.
- SEO Front End and Architecture Review – Verndale reviews key SEO criteria most impactful for gaining visibility across the three major search engines; Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
Verndale also analyzes your website to identify a number of technical and SEO performance areas essential to reaching optimal site performance.
Contact a Verndale representative to learn more about how your organization can benefit from a CMS
Scorecard Review.
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Did You Know?
Google uses the meta <title> tag of a web page for its search results display “most of the time.” We’re using quotations because a recent Webmaster Central blog post admitted there are instances when Google will replace the page’s title in its search results with an alternative title that is generated by an algorithm.
The algorithm seeks to identify page titles that aren’t useful for users and replace them with more descriptive text.
Factors that constitute as non-useful titles are non-descriptive titles (e.g.
“Home”), duplicate titles across pages, missing titles, and titles that are too short or too long.
Use Google Webmaster Tools to identify the amount of duplicate titles located on your website, and
remember to integrate important keyphrases used by your search audience in your meta title descriptions – increasing the chances those pages will rank more often.
Check out our recent SEM Tip
to read more, and subscribe to Verndale’s SEM Tip of the Week for short
and sweet advice from our expert search marketers.
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Websites that Work
Our monthly choice for the coolest sites on the Web.
Serve is a next-generation digital payments platform that helps you organize your money, send and receive funds, and manage payment requests – all from a single, unified online account.
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In 2011, there were more than this many YouTube video views – up from 2 billion views in 2010.
Source: YouTube-Trends
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90 million
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Google+ now has this many users – more than double the amount of registered users disclosed by Google on October 13, 2011.
Source: MediaPost
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