When you have that one hot service, it's always tempting to push everything else through it. Tempting, because for you, the service provider, it's simpler. But for the customer, what's easier for a service provider isn't always easier for you.
Ever curious as to the circuitous route some of the visitors to my 'blog take en route. Sometimes pleased, sometimes not so. Sometimes, how they arrive is as irrelevant as the search phrase they used, because I'm not what they're looking for.
I ask this question because I think we may well be inching closer to a point where lots of web services will be free. I say free, but what I really mean is advert-supported. But that's still free, isn't it?
German company SISTRIX (translated link) has conducted a study of 10,000 random keywords and then analyzed the top 100 Google search results for each keyword to determine which page elements offered the most influence on rankings.
Rumor has it that Google is buying the RSS management and advertising service Feedburner, and that the deal would have been announced sooner if it wasn’t for that itsy bitsy DoubleClick purchase.
Given that I've read of other people discussing the downside to the 'Digg Effect' and the lack of value in getting a hit on Digg, how long before the search engines devalue Digg, too?
For a start, Google Analytics is now task-based, rather than the raw, almost visceral collection of filters we had before, which often scared the pants of my clients when I signed them up as Users to view their statistics.
Search Engine Watch published an interesting case study today about a site that remapped all dynamic URLs via a tools such as mod-rewrite/.htaccess file...
Aggregating stuff with things like Yahoo! Pipes is the in-thing recently. What with mobile businesses and their shared 'Workstreams', the rules are changing rapidly.
simpy
