Google Analytics Says Jerusalem Belongs to Ireland

Google Analytics Says Jerusalem Belongs to Ireland Okay, not really. But according to Aviran's Place there's a bit of a glitch in the new fun Google Analytics updates: "No Ireland did not go on a crusade and concurred Jerusalem. Google Analytics program which give webmasters a free statistics for their web site lets users set their time zone. However when looking at the list of countries, … [Read more...]

Google Analytics Says Jerusalem Belongs to Ireland Okay, not really. But according to Aviran’s Place there’s a bit of a glitch in the new fun Google Analytics updates: “No Ireland did not go on a crusade and concurred Jerusalem. Google Analytics program which give webmasters a free statistics for their web site lets users set [...]

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Google Analytics Updates

Google Analytics Updates The Unofficial Google Analytics Blog has the news of some “great feature additions” to Google Analytics which include upgraded support and new invites. But the beef of the update is as follows: * Localized time zone: Now you don’t have to convert your data from Pacific Standard Time. * Rename Your Accounts: [...]

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Mike Grehan Wants You!

Mike Grehan Wants You! With the vibrant world of bookmarking, user behavior tracking, site popularity measurement and the growing amount of linking opportunities on the web, is old school content oriented SEO still relevant? Andy Beal recalls a dinner conversation with Mike Grehan about Mike’s new ClickZ article Does Textbook SEO Really Work Anymore? In [...]

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Google AdSense Text Size Expands With Site

Google AdSense Text Size Expands With Site We had a guest over this weekend using my computer for a bit and the guest asked if I could increase the size of the page text because their eyes were bothering them a bit. So, using Firefox (my browser of choice although some in the Opera community [...]

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Business Week on Local Search

Business Week on Local Search This BusinessWeek Article has been around for awhile apparently, but I just stumbled upon it (although I was interviewed for it at some point in the past). The piece profiles a San Francisco business called Absolute Adventures (which looks pretty cool) and its use of geotargeted search advertising, specifically on [...]

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WordPress.com Blog Network Outage

WordPress.com Blog Network Outage In what may just be an Easter fluke, it seems that the entire WordPress.com Blog Network is down for the day, and has been dead for at least an hour. The outage comes after complaints from some blog owners (including SEJ’s Greg Sterling) that posts placed over the past day were [...]

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MSN Social & Windows Live Answers

MSN Social & Windows Live Answers Microsoft’s foray into social search received a large amount of press this week after a Business Week article entitled “Microsoft Gets Social” where MSN Senior Product Manager discussed the future of MSN Search and Social Media along with the possibility of MSN acquiring Eurekster. But it’s time to give [...]

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Google CEO Interviewed by Charlie Rose

Google CEO Interviewed by Charlie Rose This from Resource Shelf; Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat down with Charlie Rose recently for a pretty good interview, here’s a snippet: (on people fearing Google) “Our ambition is consistent with our mission, and the mission is all the world’s information. There are many people who are concerned about [...]

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Microsoft’s Social Search Plans & Eurekster

Microsoft’s Social Search Plans & Eurekster Microsoft’s MSN is planning on the launch of a social search and question-and-answer service which is bound to try and compete with Yahoo’s MyWeb and Answers. Aaron Wall points to a BusinessWeek article dubbed Microsoft Gets Social which centers around MSN’s social media plans. “Microsoft plans to unveil a [...]

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Paris Hilton Pics & Google Image Search Optimization

Paris Hilton Pics & Google Image Search Optimization DaveN points at a screenshot of a Google search result with Paris Hilton doing …. well nevermind. I did a search on the same phrase and saw someone was putting thier URL in a top ranked image. Pretty smart marketing there, and no doubt one of the [...]

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