When preparing cheque, you need to ensure the cheque information are correct. You also need to write the cheque clear and precise to avoid the cheque information is altered. If the cheque amount is altered from 10000 to 100000, it’s really a big problem!

You can write a line at the end of the cheque amount to fill up the empty space. This can help to reduce the chance the cheque being altered. Similarly, you can do the same when writing the amount in words.

If you’re using the cheque printing software, you can choose to add the Asterisks in the options. The cheque amount will be added with *** and it will look likes ***123,456.78***. This can greatly reduce the chance the cheque being altered by others.

Google has released the Google +1 button.

Webmasters can add the +1 button to their site and allow visitors to give recommendation to Google and let others know.

What is Google +1 button

The +1 button is similar to the “Like” button from Facebook. It lets other know “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out”. +1 can help friends and others to find the best stuff.

To integrate +1 button

Integrate +1 button is easy. You only have some basic knowledge of HTML, and do not need any progamming knowledge.

Visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/

Select the size of your +1 button. Copy the generated code in the box and paste it to your HTML file according to the instruction.

Many email services or software allow users to block images. User need to click a button in order to display the image in the email.

How to handle Image Blocking in Email Marketing?

1. Don’t rely solely on image in your email. You should also write your marketing message in text.

2. If you use images, remember to add “ALT” image tag and describe what the image is about. If the image is blocked from display, the “ALT” message can be shown out.

3. Remember to set the width and height of the image. This may helps to keep the layout or structure of your email. If you didn’t set the width and height, the missing image may cause the layout of your message collapse.

4. Add a text linkage to direct user to view the full version on Web.

If you’ve different top-level domains, e.g yourdomain.com, yourdomain.co.hk, yourdomain.com.au, yourdomain.com.hk, you may post similar contents to these websites.

For example, you may post company news or some announcement on the web page of different domains. Is it a kind of content duplication? How Google treat this kind of content duplication?

Google Webmaster Help answer this question in Youtube. It’s ok to post similar content on different TLDs as it is different from what Spammers did on content duplication. Spammers will try grep hundreds or thousands cheap domain to post similar content. But for company website, they normally may have few TLDs for different countries.

Manage Your Cheque Book
- Keep cheque book in a safe place.

- Never pre-sign blank cheque.

- Issue the cheques according to the cheque number sequence, which can help to keep track your cheque records easily.

- Always keep a record of the cheque amount, date, and payee. It’s even better to write down what the cheque for.

- Check against your bank statement from time to time. Ensure the cheques match the records shown on the bank statement.

Write Cheque Clearly
- Cross the Cheque
By draw two parallel lines across the left hand corner of the cheque, this crossing can prevent the cheque from being directly encashed. The crossed cheque must be deposited into a bank account. If the cheque has been stolen, it is easily traced by locating the account it was deposited into.

- Keep Cheque Clean and Tidy
Keep the cheque clean and tidy can ensure the cheque clearing process smooth. It is important especially you should not write any to cover the MICR font of your account information in the lower part of the cheque.

- Check before issuing cheque
Before issuing a cheque, you should ensure the signatures are identical to the one used in your bank account. Also, you should check all fields have been filled in correctly. You are advised to double check for the date, amount and the payee name.

Using smart phone to surf Internet is more and more common today. You may consider to build a mobile version of your website to facilitate the Internet surfing from mobile devices.

When building the mobile version, you need to consider the following points

1. Keep it simple
You should mainly use text and image in the mobile web site and avoid using Flash, Javascript or other fancy stuffs.

Even though browsers in smart phone work likes the one in desktop, it is better to keep it simple to adapt with the characteristic of the smart phone, like small screen size, limiting resources.

2. One column
Make the website in single column with vertical scrollbar only. It is difficult for user to scroll left and right in phone.

3. Avoid Input
Provides links and buttons for easy navigation. It is difficult to do typing in smart phone. Easy navigation and jump between different pages is important.

4. Keep Consistence
The style of your mobile website should be consistence with your desktop version.

What to do if you want to add multiple languages/countries to your website? This is a common question.

You should apply for a new domain (says, mywebsite.fr) or put it into a sub-domain (fr.mywebsite.com) or put it into a directory (www.mywebsite.com/fr/)?

Google gives you some tips on this matter in YouTube. They suggest to get a top-level-domain, i.e. mywebsite.fr as search engines will treat this as localized info for the specified country.

If you have two or multiple website, You may need to consider the management issue as you may have multiple copies of your website materials (like, image, movie). Anyway, takes a look what google suggest.

1. Walkthrough your ordering process
Invite your friend to go through the ordering process in your website. Ask him to buy something from your website and start from the Home page.

Write down everythings that he encountered during the process. You may find eliminate those barriers can greatly improve your conversion rate.

2. Review Buy Button
Think again the position, style, color, size of the Buy button. A minor adjustment on the Buy button can give user a different prespective.

Is one Buy button enough? If you’ve a long page, you may consider to put one or two more buy button.

3. Contact Us
Check the contact page and ensure all the contact details are correct.

If customer experience any problems during the ordering process, “Contact Us” page is the first thing he look for. Responsive customer service give customer confidence to make business with you.

“test everything!” is a website helps you to check different things about website. It can check the HTML/CSS validation, SEO, Spell checking, Social network of your website.

Just input your website url into the box and select the tools. It will generate links to websites that offer the services.

You don’t need to visit ten or more different place to test your websites. Just go to http://tester.jonasjohn.de/ and you have all the tools there.

Some people on Internet claims that the expiration time of a domain name will affect the google search result ranking. If the domain name will be expired within one year, the ranking will be dropped. For those “old” domains, they can have a better ranking.

Are they correct? No.

Let see how Google says about this matter.