I've just been doing some Google AdSense analysis for some web sites that have moderate traffic. The owner said that I can publish this bit of information from her site. She's interested to hear if other AdSense publishers have had similar results. The objective was to find out which day of the week...
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I just finished reading Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug and recommend you read it. It's sub-titled The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. It's a great read. He writes well, has appropriate sarcasm and wit at the right places, and delivers everything you need to know...
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Great blog post by Google Webmaster Central Blog about building quality links to your site. This paragraph sums up why you shouldn't engage in buying links or link exchange programs: It's important to clarify that any legitimate link building strategy is a long-term effort. There are those who advocate...
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I noticed this morning that Google has take a leaf from the Bing book and added images as a background to their home page. I think this is great as the images are always fascinating and high quality. However, the one thing that irks me with both Google and Bing home page images is that there doesn't...
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I was pretty excited when I watched the Google TV announcement last week. Today I read a couple of commentaries about it and they went on about the features etc. but nobody mentioned the advertising. This surprised me as my initial guess is the reason that Google have entered this market is to gain more...
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I got an email from Google this morning which in part said: "...over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0..." This is great news. I have a couple of sites that I work on that just don't work in IE6 and it's the bane of my life. I really don...
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Last week I installed XMarks Bookmark Synchronizer and I am impressed. I use 4 browsers (sometimes 6 if you include IE6 and IE7) and keeping my bookmarks in sync on all the browsers and across all machines is a real problem. I regularly use about 5 different machines so with my 4 regular browsers that...
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At work we use Active Directory to authenticate our internal websites. This is great if you're using Internet Explorer because it will pass through to the application without requiring further authentication. However, on Firefox you're required to make some changes to get this to work. Open Firefox and...
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If you're a developer and you're using Firefox and you suddenly get this message: The proxy server is refusing connections It could be because you closed Fiddler but still have Firefox set to send traffic to Fiddler. Just click on the Fiddler link in your status bar and switch it off or restart Fiddler...
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Google have just released an asynchronous version of their Google Analytics site tracking code. The main advantage of this is that you can have the code start executing and collecting stats as soon as the page has started loading (because you can put it higher up in the HTML) and it won't interfere with...
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