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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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Google Analytics Benchmarking

Google have announced a new feature for Google Analytics named Benchmarking. The Google Analytics Benchmarking service is still in its beta phase, however aims to allow analytics users to compare or benchmark their web sites against other web sites. The … Continue reading

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Rapid Development Using Django

In February, Jesper Nøhr wrote about taking an idea from conception to profitable web site in 24 hours. The project involved building an advertising product for the indie crowd, so they could advertise their products throughout other web sites in … Continue reading

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Google Account Signin With CAPTCHA

Tonight I was presented with a Google login page which was different in a few ways: size and shape of the control were different instead of using an in page control, it took me to a completely new page required … Continue reading

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Google Reader Duplicate Item Improvement

One of the features that I love about RSS, is that it allows users to keep their finger on the pulse of certain topics very easily. As some people may know, I quite like the Python web framework Django and … Continue reading

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You Know You’re Popular When

Today my personal site was pinged by Live Business Radio. As I do as a matter of course, I checked out the Live Business Radio web site and was disappointed to find that it’s nothing more than your average run … Continue reading

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Google Alerts Getting Smarter

Google Alerts lets the user define keyword lists and phrases, which when found by Google while crawling and indexing web sites – will send a user a notification about that particular occurrence. Historically, it always appeared as though the technology … Continue reading

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