Archive for April, 2008

Buzz About Google PageRank Update

Just a quickie to address the recent buzz¦
Over the past few days there has been a lot of buzz about updates to PageRank.
My advice remains the same as always  don’t place too much stock in PR.  It isn’t tied to rankings  you can have top rankings without a high PageRank.
As evidenced by the chatter about [...]

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Google Website Optimizer

A year after Google launched Google Website Optimizer (their free A/B split and multivariate testing platform) it has gone mainstream and is no longer in Beta.
Pervioulsy only available to AdWords users, Google Website Optimizer can now be accessed by anyone with a Google account. You can now start testing your site  for free.
To find out [...]

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Search Engine Market Share

Here are the March 2008 numbers according to 4 different sources:
Google
Hitwise – 67.25%
Compete – 69.4%
comScore – 59.2%
Nielsen – 58.7%
Yahoo
Facing the Giants
Hitwise – 20.29%
Compete – 14.8%
comScore – 21.3%
Nielsen – 18.1%
MSN
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension video Hitwise – 6.65%
Compete – 10.2%
comScore – 9.4%
Nielsen – 12%
AOL
buy I.D. Hitwise – N/A
Compete – 1.5%
comScore – [...]

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Everyone is all a-twitter about Twitter.

I personally have been Tweeting for a few months.  But I use the term ‘tweeting’ for a few months loosely.  I haven’t been all that consistent with it, and I definitely didn’t have a strategy.  I just thought it was kind of cool.
Recently I’ve started paying more attention to it for a few reasons; my [...]

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