Comments for Rich Page: Website Optimizer

Comment on 10 Ways to Revitalize An Offline Business into Becoming a Thriving Online Business Too by Tony Hayes

Tony Hayes — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:47:10 +0000

Some good info on there, i would also mention Dmoz and Yahoo Directory listings as well as Google Maps
Hope this helps!

Comment on 35 Web Analytics & Internet Marketing Experts You Should Be Following (on Twitter) by Thomas Fuchs-Martin

Thomas Fuchs-Martin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:48:27 +0000

Thank you Rich for sharing these interesting contacts! I follow your example and share my 111 webanalytics tweeters contacts here:

111+ Web Analytics Tweeter You Must Follow

cheers,
Thomas

Comment on How to Track your Success (or Failure) on Twitter by Claire

Claire — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:45:39 +0000

Hi Rich, I like Hootsuite, which uses ow.ly - you can track activity and tweet within the same page to multiple accounts.

Comment on How to Track your Success (or Failure) on Twitter by Gary

Gary — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:30:51 +0000

I’ve been using twittercounter to track my growth and twitalyzer to boost my ego hahaha . . great post . . !

Comment on 35 Web Analytics & Internet Marketing Experts You Should Be Following (on Twitter) by Marketing Meerkat

Marketing Meerkat — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:16:36 +0000

Hey Rich, thanks for sharing this.

Comment on Bing.com - Why Microsoft Won’t Succeed Right Now by zyxo

zyxo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:16:04 +0000

I do not agree with #1 and #2 : a search functionality like google search and bing should be simple and intuitive. No user manual needed. And if you try bing a couple of times and see no reason why you should continue using it, obviously it is because there is no reason at all.

Comment on Bing.com - Why Microsoft Won’t Succeed Right Now by Brian

Brian — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:28:36 +0000

Great article… however market-share is very tough to generate. Search engines are like socks… with the technology that is available, you can only differentiate yourself so many ways. Google knows that all they have to do is maintain and they win.
You are basically saying that you will not change unless there is a compelling reason to change. Maybe your next blog should be “Top 10 Things a Search Engine Could Do to Get Me to Change from Google.” That is a very different proposition and one that requires a very different analysis. Then you could analyze which search engine best fits your criteria.

Comment on Bing.com - Why Microsoft Won’t Succeed Right Now by Claire

Claire — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:18:46 +0000

Definitely agreed on #2. I’m not sure why M$ didn’t just work on improving what they have, especially if they don’t do #4 and market the heck out of it. They do have a promotional site at discoverbing.com, but it’s not very obvious from the bing.com homepage. They have some great new features, particularly for shopping and travel - but none of that is apparent from the homepage.

Comment on Bing.com - Why Microsoft Won’t Succeed Right Now by Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:45:21 +0000

The web needs a strong competitor to Google, so I hope Bing manages to make some in roads.

Personally I don’t think visitor would click trough to view a matrix of features. The value proposition should be the results page and the additional tools it provides.

Bing won’t be able to make much head way against Google, because users are pretty much happy with Google.

Comment on Bing.com - Why Microsoft Won’t Succeed Right Now by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:13:33 +0000

Timely post.

I think number one and two are pretty tough. Remember Google started off pretty simple and didn’t make a pitch on their homepage.

I think you are correct that having news displayed after a search is a feature they should add later. I was searching for the French plane accident and no newsy results came up but more results about plane accidents in general.

I am not sure how they are handeling 301’s. I saw some 301ed pages showing up in the results. Need to do more testing though…

That said, I think most of the queries I tried returned relevant results. I liked how they sections were grouped together by themes.

Anyway, I am not a MSFT fan but I hope this attempt at a search engine will be more successful.