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Entries from May 10th, 2005
Recipe for Web Site Governance
May 10th, 2005 No Comments
Great advice from David Schatsky on governing your web site . This passage struck me: Some guidelines are about navigation, some are about product information, some are about promotions. Each of those are different competencies. Delegate responsibility for each of those areas to different folks. Why not also look at specific metrics for each? Designers [...]
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Feedburner’s Total Stats Pro
May 10th, 2005 No Comments
If you have a blog, you may already know about FeedBurner, a “feed enhancement service.” I don’t serve my feeds from FeedBurner, but lots of people do. They’ve always provided some free statistics, and recently enhanced the free stats with ad summary performance and circulation trend charting. But they now have a premium service called [...]
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Subscribe or Purchase? Why Decide?
May 10th, 2005 No Comments
This could be the thing that gets people over the hump of subscribing to music. For a long time I thought it was silly to be “renting” music — if you like a song and want to hear it for years, it would be cheaper to buy it, rather than renting it every month. Kinda [...]
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A Lot About Log Parser
May 10th, 2005 No Comments
If you’re a Windows user and don’t mind getting raw web log juice under your fingernails, check out Gary Cooper’s Log Parser Basics, which has a good introduction to the free SQL-like Microsoft command-line utility for unearthing gems from your log files.
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Click Me
May 6th, 2005 No Comments
Jeremy wonders how much anchor text matters, and opines that a company named “Click Here” would never make it to the first page of the search results. So true. Or is it? Another common word used as anchor text is “download”: on Google on Yahoo! While download.com appears at the top (which I suppose you’d [...]
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Consistency
May 6th, 2005 No Comments
OK, nothing to do with analytics or Yahoo. I was reading news feeds today and came across a press release where a PR person announced he has started a blog, “to Share Insight and Observations on Society, Politics and Business” (his caps). I dunno, maybe it’s the coffee, but I think this is funny. Who [...]
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