Finding Your Blogosphere Footprint

Finding Your Blogosphere Footprint

In last month’s post on Improving the User Experience with Site Analytics, we have theorized that producing quality content is not only best for our website, but more importantly, is best for achieving the main objectives of our presence online. In more general terms, we should seek to market our website to the user experience [...]

Identifying High Conversion Search Traffic

Identifying High Conversion Search Traffic

Last week, the experts in click fraud at Click Forensics disclosed of their newest version of the Click Forensics traffic quality management platform. This system is intended to detect instances of click fraud such that advertisers and publishers alike can improve on converting quality traffic to sales.
How do they do it?
Well, CF monitors [...]

New Look for Google Webmaster Tools

New Look for Google Webmaster Tools

Google’s Webmaster Tools is in the process of changing its look. The old main “Dashboard” page now hides behind “Home,” and unread messages from the Message Center are now prominently displayed at the top.
The new “Home” page (click to enlarge):

I’m happy to report that the side navigation is much faster now (optimized AJAX?), so browsing [...]

Consumer Reports Asking for Links

Consumer Reports Asking for Links

I came across a noteworthy WebmasterWorld thread where WW member MichaelBluejay describes an incident in which a popular magazine, Consumer Reports, had contacted him in a quest for backlinks.

The thread opens:
Consumer Reports wrote to me, saying they’re “constantly seeking sites that complement our own,” how their ultimate goal is to help consumers get expert [...]

Google Book Search Antitrust Suit

Google Book Search Antitrust Suit

The U.S. Department of Justice is currently undergoing a review of the settlement between Google and the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild. These two entities had filed a class action suit against the search monolith back in 2005, but have only recently settled. Unfortunately for Google, the terms of settlement are now [...]