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I’m giving Feedburner a whirl, as it always seems like there is some cool functionality with it. I’m not sure if I got it all right or not yet, so if you see anything weird, please let me know.
Don’t make your users feel stupid. Make them laugh. Check your 404 page today and make sure it’s not the same old default techie drivel that sites lose users to every day. Preserve your web traffic with a few easy changes.
I was over perusing on Lee’s marketing blog when I noticed a post Thomas had done on Clicktracks appetizer. I’m a big fan of clicktracks mainly because the people behind it rock, they have excellent support and have made analytics extremly usable and yet still highly informational. Best of all they listen to their customers and implement feature requests. Do yourself a favor and pickup a copy of their free web analytics software. By the way, I have no affiliation with clicktracks other than really enjoying their software.
One of the main reasons I started this site was to have a point of reference
for things, and my own sort of public bookmarks for discussion. I often go back
through and read some of the posts, and several I reference more often than
others. I thought I’d do a list of my favorite posts that took the longest time,
and hopefully came away with some of the best information available here. I’m
a big fan of meta-aggregation. So here’s your one bookmark for the SD gold when
you have time to sit down and dig in. Link donations are welcomed:)
If you own a website, you should understand how to buy or sell one. Buying and selling is at the basis of any viable business. The web business sure has changed the ways of thinking about business with wild valuationn, deals with incredible return, and everything in between. During the first dot com bubble, ALL rules of business somehow magically flew out the window. There was a sense of urgency during the first bubble to “get in on the ground floor”. Even pet food was going to be sold online by sockpuppets! Hindsight is 20/20, and a lot of the promise of the web that was founded on business principles is returning after confidence has returned. Now investors are more skeptical, owners are more savvy, and everyone still wants to get in on the promising ground floor.
A little while back I posted, “How to access Myspace by proxy through your school’s firewall“. I was pretty amazed by the lengths these users are willing to go to access their favorite site (if only they were so determined to do their schoolwork!).
Myspace users are indeed fiercely loyal to being able to access their favorite site. Here’s Just over a weeks worth of various search queries in January that happend to pop up somewhere because of that post:
I often find myself accidently lumping in everything internet marketing with SEO. To me, SEO is just what you call someone with an insatiable hunger to learn about marketing online. The day you truly become an SEO could be the first time you read something that makes you say, “damn, this is pretty easy and I can do this, but it’s hard enough where I’m going to learn more and more about it everyday”. So maybe there should be better names for “meta-webmasters”, or “online project managers”, but for now, SEO still just sounds cool. With all the intro babble aside, to most online marketing folks, it’s all about the bottom line. In simplest form, there are three questions that I try to answer with every site: How will it get traffic? How will it convert? How will it profit? If you constantly improve on these questions you’re golden. One way to increase on the conversion question is to increase credibility. To me it makes sense that if it adds credibility for the user, it’s eventually gonna be rolled into an algorithm somewhere as well.
SEO/ Internet Marketing Training
