Posted in Other Reviews, Web Analytics on Nov 10th, 2007
Welcome back! Don’t forget to read my daily website optimization tips via Twitter - simply follow me on Twitter for daily tips to improve your website & increase conversion rates.Being a web analyst, and an avid online shopper, I thought it might be interesting to discuss the reasons why I think shopping online at Amazon.com [...]
Posted in Other Reviews on Aug 23rd, 2007
Buy.com. Now that is a perplexing online shopping website that has been around for years, with some dizzying highs and troubling lows. I was just using them recently and thought it would be great to review how they are currently doing, and compare them to the (in my opinion) online shopping industry leaders, Amazon.com.
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Posted in Other Reviews on Aug 1st, 2007
MyBlogLog have been around for quite a while now and are gaining significant users in the blog world. Yahoo even bought them in January this year. They claim they turn your blog into a community and allow you to connect with fellow readers. This is a great idea in theory, but I feel that MyBlogLog [...]
Posted in Other Reviews on Jul 23rd, 2007
Maybe that’s a ’slight’ exaggeration, but the latest search engine market share rankings are in. No surprising Google is still dominating second placed Yahoo, but the real interesting news is that MSN is growing faster than both of them in terms of share of searches! Live search actully grew 77.4% in the last year, compared to Google, [...]
Posted in Other Reviews on Jul 10th, 2007
One of my favorite blogs have just come up with a great idea! They have just launched a landing page makeover clinic - CopyBlogger.com. First up to be made-over is SEOmoz.org (a leading SEO blog, with great free SEO tools - another one of my favorite blogs). And their makeover ‘makes’ for great reading. Take a look:
http://www.copyblogger.com/landing-page-makeover-seomoz/
In terms of [...]
Posted in Other Reviews on Jun 21st, 2007
Being a serious blogger, I am forever looking on websites for that perfect relevant image that is worth a thousand words. So I thought I would give my two cents about the different options for finding images online.
Google Images: The big boy. And you would think they would be the best. However, they seem to be seriously ignoring [...]
Posted in Other Reviews on Jun 1st, 2007
Digg.com. Its a very popular way of ‘voting’ for webpages and articles on blogs. And its gaining huge popularity (even some contraversy) online lately - I use it ‘vote’ for other stories, and as a way of seeding the blog posts that I write, in the hope that other people see it and vote for it [...]
Posted in Other Reviews on May 21st, 2007
Lets face it. I’m addicted to stumbling. And no I don’t mean falling down after a few drinks (which happens). I mean a little something called ‘Stumble Upon‘. Have you tried it yet? I have learnt so much (some useless info too) by using this. Basically, it allows you to find websites in categories that [...]
