Some time ago I “accidentally” discovered a quite funny report featuring a squirrel (of all things) offering loads of optimization tips to improve your website’s conversion rate – and then totally forgot about it and so didn’t share it with you!
Thankfully, the guys at Conversion Rate Experts have updated their web site, and reminded me about their great viral article (it was written to coincide with the launch of the free Google Website Optimizer, but …
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During the last week, I’ve been updating one of my long established business web site directory. As well as a much needed theme makeover, I’ve killed off all the directory pages that point to dead links – that was fun – over 1000 pages removed, and all done by hand.
But one thing I discovered while doing this task made me feel quite ill, and makes me wonder why we tolerate this type of …
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Internet Marketer Rob Toth had a drama with PayPal recently, when they shut him down after using (what they called) some “misleading” wording on one of his sales pages. Basically, they thought he made some income claims which were a bit misleading.
Now I’d seen the page, and the product (Buy Now Wizard), and actually wanted to buy it myself when I had a spare $67. But then he pulled the page to get PayPal off …
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Just a few days ago (April 15) Alexa made an announcement that their “new” ranking system was now available.
If you don’t already know, for years Alexa has had a toolbar that users can download onto their web browser. As these users surfed the web, the toolbar sent data back to Alexa to help determine the “popularity” of web sites across the globe.
The big problem with the Alexa measure of popularity is that it …
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My Christmas present to myself was a Squidoo lens (or two). What on earth is that? Well… it’s a free page which focuses on the keyword of your choice, and allows you to build backlinks to your sites and generate some extra targeted traffic! Check out my first impressions on Squidooing and decide whether you should have a go at it!
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Yeah… I know what you’re thinking… they’re gonna be auto-generated “visits” by bots or something like that… not real people coming to my site! Well guess what! You’d be wrong on that score! I WAS one of the visitors!
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