Elsewhere: Google Analytics Visitor Counts by Hour of Day and Day of Week
I just posted Google Analytics Visitor Counts by Hour of Day and Day of Week on BoldInteractive.com. Good news and bad news. I’m a pessimist realist, so we’ll start with the bad news. Bad news: Your web team says the site has to go down for maintenance. For several hours in the near future, your [...]
Social Media Experiment Update, Week Six
If you’ve been reading awhile, you may remember the social media experiment I started a few weeks ago. Well, after a month and a half, I figured it was about time to check on my Frankenstein monster and see how it was progressing. So far, most of the readings are negative. It’s not lurching around. [...]
My First Impressions of Google Chrome
Chances are good you’ve already heard the news but, in case you haven’t, Google recently released its own browser, Google Chrome. Naturally, the blogosphere is absolutely buzzing with feature mashups, performance comparisons, and more than a few conspiracy theories. I’ll digress with the more noteworthy points that you are better told by the front page [...]
Cloak and Dagger: The Many Motives for Cloaking… and their Consequences
Cloaking is a touchy subject in SEO circles. Typically falling into the category of “gray hat,” it can be fairly safe or incredibly risky to your site’s search engine rankings, depending on how and why it is done. Unfortunately, the growing literature around cloaking does little to dispel the confusion over acceptable use. Often times, [...]
The Great Bloggasm Panic of ’08
This will be the first article in a format I like to call, “Case in Point,” where I present a specific, real-life scenario of success or failure on the web (the “Case”) and then the take-home lesson to be learned from it (the “Point”). Case: Bloggasm and the Google Roller Coaster On March 25, 2008, [...]