Archive for August, 2009

Bottlenecks to Analytics Implementation – Recommended Reading

The team at Google Analytics discuss the bottlenecks of implementing Google Analytics onto websites to measure statistics.

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Twitter and Facebook Help Build Blog Reputations

It is well known that Twitter is filled with people posting useless comments which are more of a hindrance than anything – which is one of the reasons why I personally do not use it. I have enough distractions as it is, without the added distraction of Twitter.
In fact eMarketer have released some stats which [...]

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Twitter Truth – Recommended Reading

This blog post on “More Truth About Twitter” confirms my thoughts that there are, as the rule goes, about 20% of Twitter traffic that produces about 80% of all Tweets.
Up until now I have tried, but just have not got into all things Twitterish and therefore I fall into the lazy group of people.
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Google Wave Anticipation

With Google Wave just around the corner, it surprises me that Google would bother with adding a chat feature to iGoogle. I can only imagine that this feature must be incorporated in some way with the roll-out of Google Wave. For those of you who don’t know what Google Wave is, refer to my previous [...]

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Google’s iGoogle Facebook Flop

Google has rolled out it’s attempt to compete directly with Facebook by adding a social feature to its iGoogle homepage. It is a halfhearted attempt if you ask me and should have been developed further before being released as it is less than ideal in its current state. iGoogle has the potential to squish Facebook, [...]

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Translating Keywords – Recommended Reading

Andy Atkins-Krüger from Search Engine Watch explains in this article why it is very important to develop keywords from scratch in your native language, rather than translating them from one language to another.
Not only are there differences with English from one country to another – England, Australia, America – but translating from one language to [...]

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Rogue Internet Pharmacy Results in Bing

A report by LegitScript and KnujOn shows that almost 90% of Internet Pharmacy advertisements on Microsoft’s new search engine code named Bing, result in rogue Internet pharmacy results, that do not require a prescription for prescription drugs, or are otherwise acting unlawfully or fraudulently, much like those emails that congregate in your junk folder.
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