I have setup goal tracking for my own blogs and haven’t looked back since. The results have been surprising and I thought I’d share some of the stats with you here. If you haven’t read my article on setting up Analytics goal tacking for Wordpress, please check out my article. Otherwise if you need some convincing, the stats in this article will sure motivate you. Continue reading
Update: This is no longer the case. Google now reports our capital as being Canberra - which is right.
It looks like Google is sticking semantic data into SERPs. You can ask it questions like “(What is the) capital of Britain?”, “(What is the) Language in China?”.
One question that Google doesn’t know: “(What is the) capital of Australia?”
According to Google, our capital is: “+1hr, begins last Sunday in October; ends last Sunday… Continue reading
I just entered Eben Pagan’s contest to describe social media marketing. There are some brilliant responses and I added my two cents which you can find here: http://ebenpagan.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/best-way-to-market-with-social-media/#comment-263
I’d love to win, as I have a lot of respect for what Eben does and I know he delivers value. If you want, give it a shot, too. Otherwise, if you’re curious about marketing using social media, you’ll definitely get something out… Continue reading
Facebook has taken crowdsourcing to its translation efforts. Have a look at the results. I’m unsurprised but believe Facebook will learn in time, to filter translations. Continue reading
Ever wanted to track clicks on offsite links, comment submissions and RSS subscriptions? I have…
After a bit of Google-ing I nailed it, and I now have tracking for links that don’t have the Google Analytics code on them.
There’s no point looking at web stats if you don’t know what leads to sales or goal conversions - set this up now and benefit from proper behavioral data.
Read this post for my solution. Continue reading
Have you ever wanted someone to focus less attention on something, but they end up looking at it anyway?
A few years ago, we were looking to buy a house. The agent was trying to sell a property to us and he told us, that there were other houses for sale in the area but they were all… Continue reading
I took a look at the marketshare between the major browsers and Google’s new Chrome browser. Considering they have made a link to it from their homepage, I wanted to see the result of this.
Everyone always jokes about wishing they had a link on Google’s homepage - This is what happens when you do… Continue reading
I know a few visitors to this site often drop by to see what I’m up to - thanks, I appreciate that! Sadly, according to my post history, I’ve basically done nothing for nearly 2 months! Not quite. Thanks to some new posts from Andrew Poesaste (who also hasn’t posted for a while), that’s about to change.
Here’s what I’ve been up to:
Google Lively launched today. I spent a bit of time getting into it and browsing around. Checkout the pad I’m making in it at the moment. You might find me in there:
I think there are many applications for marketing and branding in this application and I think Google has stumbled onto something very cool indeed. So far here’s what I’ve found:
Recently over on Peter Laurent’s Best Looking Man Blog, I read a post about him hijacking Peter Newsome’s name on Google.
I bet you could have a bit of fun with that. In fact, back in the day, I remember when I used to outrank Pete Laurent for his name on Google. I was litterally Google’s Authority site about “Peter Laurent”, with my post “An… Continue reading
