Entries Written By Alex Procter
The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Website for Conversions
You had a great idea to build your website for a service you render, an experience you’ve curated, or a product that you want to sell. You chose a web company or maybe even decided to DIY and get involved in the entire process. Now, your website looks like what you want it to (or …
✅ The Website Structure Improvement Checklist ✅
So you’re looking at your website structure for a new website or redesign. That’s good, it’s worth your time. Just like in construction where “a structure is only as stable as its foundation”, the same applies to your website. Without the right website structure: it’s extremely easy to to confuse and lose visitors due to …
How to create a sitemap in 2023
“How to create a sitemap?” you ask… well there’s a few different kinds of sitemaps: XML Sitemap – for search engines to know which of your website pages you want to be crawled Visual Sitemap – a diagram of the pages you want in your new or redesigned website HTML Sitemap – a page on …
How to find your sitemap
How to find your sitemap for your website is just a matter of looking in the right places. If one exists, these steps will help you find it 99% of the time. Note that we’re talking about an XML sitemap throughout this article. Updated August 2023 to include a link to automatic sitemap finder tool …
Site Mapping Guide: All your sitemap questions answered
Site mapping can sound like a daunting topic. I used to think so myself – but the basics are fairly simple to understand. It’s easy to get lost in the detail, so I’m gonna walk you through exactly what you need to know about ‘what are they’, ‘when to use them’, and ‘how to create’ …
How to submit your sitemap to Google
Submit your sitemap to Google because ‘SEO reasons’ – they say. But what does that even mean and how do you actually do it? Before we start, let’s just be clear on what some of the above words mean: Sitemap – in this case we are referring to a sitemap.xml file (not Visual sitemaps or …
Perfect Information Architecture for Your E-commerce Store: Allbirds.com Case Study
So you’re planning an e-commerce website, and you want it to be perfect. Simple and organised information architecture, with all your products organised into neat little categories. Just like the good folk at Allbirds.com who sell those woolly shoes that are all the rage in Silicon Valley. You want visitors to skip through your site …
Sitemaps and Sitemap Generators Explained Simply
A sitemap generator streamlines or automates the process of creating a sitemap. That sounds handy right? But what is a sitemap? And do you need a visual sitemap, an XML sitemap, or both? … Okay stay tuned, while it sounds like nerdy water-cooler chat for web developers, the high level concepts here are actually pretty …
Making a Website: The Absolute Basics
If you are new to websites, here’s a quick article that will help you understand the very basics of what is required to make a website. Three things you need to make a website: A domain name This is the name of your website (also called the base URL, or the web address). E.g. writemaps.com …
Information Architecture Made Easy With 3 Example Sitemaps
Information Architecture might sound big and confusing, but it’s really just organising information in a logical way so that people can find their way around and get what they need. Striding through the supermarket the other day, I could glance at the signs for each aisle, read the 4-5 categories for each, and easily skip …