Is your website ready for Cyber Monday?

Happy Thanksgiving Week! This Friday will mark the official beginning of the 2007 Christmas shopping season, commonly known as Black Friday. Mobs of shoppers will be out the day after Thanksgiving grabbing $399 Dell Laptops, $199 Panasonic DVD Camcorders & this seasons hottest toy, Squawker McCaw by the cartload..or at least until quantities run out.…

Search Illustrated Talks Podcast Optimization

Over on Search Engine Land today you’ll find their weekly “Search Illustrated” column, which this time around shows a 1-2-3 type illustration of podcast optimization. The title raised my eyebrows at first because, obviously, there’s only so much you can optimize about a piece of audio (and having a column about SEO contained entirely in…

How is your Website Stacking Up?

Do you remember encyclopedias? You know those heavy books stacked up on the bookcase collecting dust. The only time they were ever used was when little Johnny had a report on the solar system or some other mundane topic. Dragging his feet to the bookcase, Johnny would take down the Encyclopedia ( being careful not…

Trick or Treat? Microsoft Open Up Analytics Program

Microsoft, in its desperate scramble to get back on the online ad train, today announced the availability of the Gatineau Web Analytics program, an enhancement to the MSN AdCenter paid search platform that’s also open to webmasters in general. Like other analytics programs (*cough cough* Google *cough*) there will be information on specific visitors, clickthrough…