From the monthly archives:

July 2007

Page Rank Link Train

July 30, 2007

We’ll I saw this on another blog and thought to myself, yeh why not? You’re probably wondering what I’m talking about. It’s a ‘train’ – bit like a myspace whore train? To spread link love and increase your page rank; maybe..
If you want to join in just follow the instructions below!

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In the news – 29/07/07

July 29, 2007

On Aaron Wall’s blog I saw a post pointing to a blog post listing 160 odd ‘do-follow’ blogs. It’s perhaps ethically questionable, clearly some spammers and blackhats are going to abuse these kind of lists but I think it probably does have some legitimate uses.
Google have released their new meta tag “unavailable after”. [...]

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Carnival of Internet Pros

July 25, 2007

Quick post to point out the first edition of the carnival of internet pros. One of my articles is feature – which is nice .
There’s also a load of other articles on email lists, blog stats, web 2.0, search, graphic design and more! Go and check it out.

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In the news – 22/07/07

July 22, 2007

I’ve been reading a quite a few posts about link building/buying etc this past week.

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Free laptop wtf?

July 19, 2007

Has anyone in the UK seen an advert for PC World saying if you sign up to Orange Broadband in their store you’ll get a free laptop? WTF? Is there a huge catch I’m missing? I mean sure the laptops are pretty average but that’s a crazy deal.

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Improving the conversion rate of your checkout process

July 17, 2007

E-Consultancy have released a new report about the online checkout:
“Almost a year ago now we started on an ambitious project to try and define how the perfect online checkout would work…
A lot of interviews, research, roundtables and surveys later we’ve finally published Online Retail 2007: Checkout Special“
Anyway, it’s rather long, so here is a [...]

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Google Analytics Tutorial – Advanced e-commerce tracking

July 16, 2007

Another powerful feature of Google Analytics is the ability to track real e-commerce values to allow you to see the monetary value of different traffic sources and keywords, as well as providing a nice dashboard for tracking the profitability of your website.

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Generating a Google site map is the quickest route to the supplemental index

July 4, 2007

I noticed a comment made by Daven:
“giving google a XML sitemap if you PR is low is the quickest way to get into supplemental index”
I think that’s a very interesting comment and one I have no authority to make a judgement on but I would love to hear other people’s opinions of this.
I have no [...]

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The ‘three layers of so what?’ test in analytics

July 4, 2007

As I said before I’ve been reading Avinash Kaushik’s Web Analytics – An Hour A Day and I can’t quite believe how good it is. It’s packed full of useful insights and strategies. I feel I have picked up so much already and I must try and share some with you.

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In the news – 02/07/07

July 2, 2007

I spotted a couple of really interesting links last week. So here goes – also I will write something useful this week!

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