Archive for month: January, 2008

Get Quality Home Page Link

31 January, 2008 (13:13) | SEO | By: Michael

You know you have arrived when you get a reciprocal linking request. This arrived in my inbox today:

Hello,
We visited your site [name] and are interested to swap links
with your site.
We would add your link at the home page of
[URL removed] which will actually
help to increase the search engine rank of your site and give you [...]

Acquisitions continue in the Analytics Space

25 January, 2008 (12:21) | Web Analytics | By: Michael

Accenture announced today that they are acquiring Maxamine and Memetrics.
Maxamine is a company that audits a web site with a very specialized crawler, identifying where tags are missing and much more.
Memetrics is a Multi-Variate Testing vendor that has some pretty big name clients.
Overall a really good move for Accenture, if they can leverage the potential [...]

Five Web Analytics Bloggers that NEED to Get Started Again

22 January, 2008 (19:20) | Web Analytics | By: Michael

If your feed reader is anything like mine, you have no problem getting up to the second SEO info, but my fellow web analytics bloggers are usually a little more taciturn. There are good reasons for this. A good web analytics post takes time to write. It is not some quick rant on why Google’s [...]

Matt Cutts Shall Make no Law Respecting the Establishment of a Web Site

8 January, 2008 (19:26) | SEO | By: Michael

Matt Cutts has boldly gone and painted with a broad brush. In a blog post he insinuates a connection between using Google-unapproved SEO techniques and criminal behavior.

For a while now, I’ve had a slight hunch that clients that embrace blackhat SEO on their site are willing to cut corners in other areas of business as [...]

Eric Peterson Equips his WebCast of +7 to Irony

7 January, 2008 (18:03) | Web Analytics | By: Michael

Like a small child quivering alone in his dark bedroom while mommy and daddy yell at each other in the den, I have marked with concern the recent blog posts coming from Eric Peterson and Avinash Kaushik.
To be fair, it would appear that the first blow was struck by Avinash in his post entitled “Web [...]

Was Leaving Britney Alone the Right Thing to do?

6 January, 2008 (16:51) | Random | By: Michael

Warning: This post has nothing to do with web analytics.
As Britney Spears’ life has seemed to spiral out of control, I have thought a lot about it. And while I don’t want this to come off as a sort of “shame on all of us” type of post, I am thinking that someway somehow we [...]

Happy New Year

5 January, 2008 (14:17) | Blogging, Web Analytics | By: Michael

It has been a very eventful past few months. And Like Mike Keyes I am trying to get up the gumption to post more. Here’s a run-down on my recent whatevers.

Got a new job, and have begun the transition to Chicago. And while the switch was not fomented by money it is nice to see [...]