Monthly Archives: May 2008

Changing Temporary (302) To Permanent (301) Redirects

It’s common place to register multiple variations of a domain to protect the brand or product that the domain is related to. At some point, a web master must choose what he or she is going to do with the … Continue reading

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Google Analytics Benchmarking Verticals

In March, Google announced a new feature for Google Analytics named Benchmarking. One of the most compelling reasons to opt-in to the benchmarking component of Google Analytics is to compare how your sites perform against other sites. Once the data … Continue reading

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Google Analytics Ecommerce Outage

Six weeks ago, along with colleagues from my work place – we implemented Google Analytics Ecommerce functionality within a handful of sites.* The statistics had been pouring into Google Analytics and then around April 25, same time that Australia has … Continue reading

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Gaming Google Reader For Higher Click Through Rates

Everyone looking to promote their web sites are always looking for ways to get more traffic, higher click through rates and better conversion rates (whatever a conversion might represent). For a long time, publishers around the world were looking at … Continue reading

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Detecting Duplicates Within XML Feeds

At the end of January, I commented on and offered a suggestion to the Google Reader team about how to improve their product by removing duplicate feed items. At the time, I didn’t think to post a screenshot to aid … Continue reading

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Non-English Languages & Whacky Domain Names

While doing a little research for an upcoming article tonight, I revisited the web site of James Holderness. If the name looks familiar, it’s because I linked to him in January regarding detecting duplicate items within RSS feeds. When I … Continue reading

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