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March 24, 2008

Landing Page Optimization by Tim Ash

I meant to write this review of Landing Page Optimization a month ago – got so sidetracked (my life should be more optimized, I guess) that I didn’t get around to it and then I saw Tim Ash at Search Engine Strategies last week and we spent a whole hour talking about his book and [...]

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Time to vote in the WAA Board of Directors Election

This year, elections went live today for voting for the new Board of Directors of the Web Analytics Association.  I already wrote about who I’m supporting in a post a few weeks ago titled WAA Board of Directors Nominees 2008 I voted this morning and was surprised to see how much the voting form changed from [...]

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March 23, 2008

Determining Search Engine Traffic using ComScore MyMetrix

I think I figured out a way to do what HitWise does using upstream and downstream traffic with ComScore MyMetrix. I’m thinking of downloading the entire Source/Loss reports for Google Search, Yahoo Search and Microsoft/Live Search (large files) and then use it as a way to estimate the real search engine traffic, based on panel [...]

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March 21, 2008

1929 Party – One of Krugman’s best posts

Nothing new here – and if you look at the Stock Market today – it’s not crashing yet – and yet every time a new report comes out that says something bad, the Market drops by a couple hundred points. Well, you can read it yourself and see what you think – Paul Krugman: Partying [...]

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Google is the best place to work – hmm, when are the rest of the employers going to catch up?

Ok, ok, ok – Google is the best place to work, bar none, according a poll in Search Engine RoundTable – Poll: Would You Want to Work at Google? But they’re not the only one’s who think this – a lot more people want to work at Google and who can blame them when you [...]

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Swotti – interesting concept – not sure about the execution

Take a look at Swotti – Swotti – is a  Semantic Opinions Aggregator according to Read/WriteWeb. “..With Swotti, you can learn from the good and bad experiences of others as the site gathers together reviews and feedback from across the web and categorizes them to provide you with more information about the product you’re interested [...]

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March 20, 2008

Financial Slump Moves From Wall St. to Main St.

Stopping to think about it, there’s no mystery why the Financial Slump is Moving From Wall St. to Main St. – many people are “fake rich” – money was made on paper – money that’s not really backed by anything besides IOY’s; as long as there was liquidity – it didn’t matter how much money [...]

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Search Engine Strategies NYC 2008 Recap – my own thoughts

Whew!  Search Engine Strategies NYC 2008 is done and  I’m mentioned in Search Engine RoundTable in a post about SES NY ’08 Conference Recap “…I would like to thank our volunteer contributors who possibly burned the rubber off their keyboards covering the sessions for all those who were unable to attend. It is amazing how [...]

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The beginning of Depression 2008-09

Spooky – but this was predictable – it’s like 1929 happening all over again – am I reading too much into this clip? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnnOOo6tRs8&hl=en] What do you think?

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Social Media Sessions at SES

Here’s two sessions I attended at SES NY this afternoon and my Twitter notes; I appologize in advance for the lack of formatting and spelling of my Tweets – it’s a lot of work to clean it all up and put the tweets in order (wish someone wrote a utility to do it). At conferences [...]

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