Just noticed that I had 5561 hits on Christmas Eve to my Christmas site. That’s not bad for one day. Looking at the analytics, those 5561 visits were from 5261 absolute unique visitors, and they made 10,013 pageviews. That amount of traffic was a bit of a spike – usually the site...

Another excellent post at http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/get-user-generated-content-published-in-google-places-business-listings-11636 by http://expertiseonline.net/ on Google Place pages. The two main takeaways for me were: 1. Using hCard format for your contact details on your website. 2....

I’ve been catching up on my SEO reading over the holidays, in particular SEOMoz posts. One post I spent time on was benjarriola’s on managing duplicate content at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical. Previously I thought you only used the...

For about a year and a half I’ve been using a contact manager to manage subscriptions to three of my sites. It was cumbersome: because of the three lists, three subscription forms, three autoresponse series, it was confusing, and the user interface was quite poor. No matter how many...

Had a little play with Google’s new boutiques.com. It’s kind of fun to play with. There’s a bit of setting up in the beginning, as it tries to work out your style, using a good old Google algorithm. It shows about 20 pairs of fashion photos for you to choose between, and...

I had a bunch of reports I would regularly run in AdWords for clients. In particular, reporting by month for a campaign or ad group. It was really handy for seeing trends in campaigns and ad groups over time, comparing August this year with August in 2009 and 2008 and even 2007. Can’t...