social-media-analysis-measurement-ideas-sponderI put together and moderated the Social Media Analysis and Tracking session at Search Engine Strategies San Jose today and it went very well. In fact, here’s what a few bloggers had to say about it and we had roughly 250 people in the room – it wasn’t as packed as yesterdays session on SES’s [...]

You never know fully what your working with till you’ve tried it at least one, or twice – and that goes for anything – as much as you prepare (or don’t prepare) there will usually be somethings, or many things, that are unforeseen like …. needing A lot more work needed to restore Webmetricsguru.com Now [...]

Nataliya Yakushev did a nice, comprehensive post on Social Media Camp on her blog, Social Media Buzz. I could not stay for much of the Social Media camp and I missed some good stuff, so I’m told.  Well, that’s the value of having friends who are there, taking notes, like Nataliya did (and she put [...]

I have been thinking that many applications that are done manually now could be crowd sourced – for example, maintaining a large list of IP Addresses (I’m looking at such a project currently), or perhaps, sentiment analysis of social media content (blogs, message boards, social networks, micro media, etc) could be done using services like [...]

Another very good sounding, good advice post for a Sunday morning – that came to be from Seth Godin by way of Mike Levin – The secret of the web (hint: it’s a virtue). Since I’m quoting some of Seth’s post below, I just want to say something first – Sebastian Wenzel and I are [...]

Sometimes, The Analytics Guru can also serve as a bookmark, just for my own use – though I think this video made at Google recently is worth a view by everyone – I’ve looked though it and want to set aside some time to really digest it fully – so I’m noting it here and [...]

I saw an interesting post on Search Engine Click through rates by SERP Position which reminded me of work I have tried to do in the past, and I see that Position 1 gets the Lion Share of all the Search Engine Traffic for a particular Keyword Phase according to Red Carnival – Click Through [...]

As TechCrunch just announced – Cuil has arrived and in the first hour has almost matched Google in quality and improved on Google in related categories – Google Beats Cuil Hands Down In Size And Relevance, But That Isn’t The Whole Story Yeah, Google – take that!   Honestly, Michael Arrington is more of a Google [...]

House content is favored by the Google algorithm – further proof that Google stacks the cards in their own favor – a reference to Google Krol in SeoBook. Content from Google (YouTube, Google Knol) is going to be favored in Google’s Search Results – which for most sites, are the only search results that really [...]

The real reason Google is buying Digg ……. to use to power part of it’s Social Search – heard about the potential sale in TechCrunch in a post titled Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” In fact, I wrote about Google’s new Search Interface that it’s been playing with in [...]