Archive for June, 2007

 

Bounce Rate: Should Traffic Stay or Should Traffic Go?

 

Over at the Google Analytics blog, the value of minding your bounce rate was reiterated.
What exactly is bounce rate?
According to Google’s very own Avinash Kaushik, in a nutshell bounce rate measures the percentage of people who come to your website and leave “instantly”.- Daily Fix
Simply put, bounce rate shows how much of your traffic gets [...]

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Google as Internet Marketing God

 

Gobala Krishnan has an interesting post about Google as the decision-maker on who to praise and who to condemn amongst the Internet marketing companies.
Here’s how Gobala finds Google, the billions of dollars worth gorilla:
Job Title: The almighty god of the Internet
Job Scope: Decides which website goes to Internet marketing heaven and which ones go to [...]

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Google Gadget Ventures: Adventure for Developers

 

To further contribute to the developers’ community, Google’s inviting all Google Gadget developers to create more useful Gadgets or to enrich their creations with their latest initiative - Gadget Ventures.
Google Gadget Ventures will offer third-party gadget development and gadget-related businesses two types of funding:
Grants of $5,000 to developers who’ve built gadgets in our directory that [...]

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Internet Marketer Bans Google

 

Burnt by Google products’ volatility, an Internet marketing membership site from Cuzcom Internet Publishing bans any Google-related products. The site aptly named Internet Power Without Google, with Paul G. Curran as its webmaster, offers email marketing and Internet marketing courses (isn’t it email marketing a part of Internet marketing?)
According to Paul G. Curran…
“There comes a [...]

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Calendar Integration with Gmail

 

Aside from Gmail, one Google product that helps me become less of a tardy person is Google Calendar. And with GCal’s integration with Gmail, what else would make me lazy to do what I gotta do? (except watching YouTube, of course, hehe).
If you don’t like using your Gmail and Gcal together, you have another option [...]

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Volunteer to Improve Custom Search Engines

 

Another notable service that Google has launched last year is the custom search engine. With the ability of people to create their own search engines, lots of niche sites were able to further improve their collection of resources for the benefit of their users.
To augment this effort further, the CSE team has provided a page [...]

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Tips to Get Acquired by Google

 

The Startup Game has shared six interesting tips on how to be a part of the massive list of Google acquisitions. And I believe these two are the best for they resound what an excellent startup worthy of million dollars paycheck should do:
Don’t focus on getting acquired. That’s like being a single woman who desperately [...]

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Got Multiple Gmail Accounts and Have Trouble Switching?

 

Switching from one Gmail account to another that is.
It might be weird to have more than one Gmail account, but I’m using three - one for clients, one for subcontract workers, and one for my newsletter subscriptions.
And when I was still new with using these three Gmail accounts I often encounter problems with opening one [...]

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Google Acquired Zenter Online Slide Service

 

Online collaboration tools? There’s Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Gmail, GTalk, Google Calendar and all. What? You’re not yet satisfied?
Fine because there’s a newly acquired technology that will further enhance online collaboration - its the online slide presentations service from Zenter.
Zenter is one of the startup businesses that Y Combinator has funded.
TechCrunch has it that [...]

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Google Analytics Date Range Compare to Past

 

I noticed just today that the Google Analytics date range option has added another option which allows users to compare a date range to another date range.

Now we can check out the differences between two date ranges. This would be useful for checking out if there’s any pattern in your traffic flow. But I’m sure [...]

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