From the monthly archives:

August 2008

2008 social network site data

August 30, 2008

It’s out there: Information regarding popularity of social network sites worldwide as well as member population makeup, specifically social network population by age and gender.

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Web analytics: averages mask the truth [video]

August 26, 2008

If you’re an online marketer one of the sharpest tools in your toolbox is your analytics package.  Once you’ve established goals for your site, built it to perform and have begun marketing it, analytics provides the most effective means of measuring your effectiveness. Non e-commerce web sites often measure their success based on the averages [...]

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Google page 1 rankings check-up

August 23, 2008

Earlier this week I ran an experiment to validate a theory about Google giving preferential treatment to blog posting which contained video, essentially allowing those blog posts to rank for keywords and key phrases rapidly. Are the results holding?

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All the top marketing stories (Alltop)

August 22, 2008

By visiting a single category on Alltop you can cover top stories from a collection of hand-picked blogs as opposed to hunting-and-pecking from multiple feeds in a feed reader.

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Page 1 Google rankings in hours (easily)

August 20, 2008

After stumbling upon a curious affinity Google had for certain blog posts, experiments revealed an easy way to achieve page 1 Google rankings.

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