2006-07-18
Whats your google ratio?
How do people find your site? I've recently been interested in how people are finding my sites, and have got some interesting results "Economy Chat":http://economy-chat.com is about 20% google/ 2% referrals with the rest being direct links (I'm guessing RSS) and my blog is about 20% search / 20% referrals. while "Zyons":http://zyons.com is about 2% search / 20% referrals and "GypsyJobs":http ...
2005-08-31
The difference between a splog and a aggregator
I got a trackback on a recent post (yes I am *that* popular.. a *single* trackback). and naturally I clicked through to see who this new found friend was. This looked like a link farm to me, BUT it also seemed topical and the links it linked to seemed kinda interesting to me. now.. besides from clogging up the ping servers and having a couple of dozen robots ...
2005-08-29
Google Search Innovation
nice.
I just noticed that for some search terms the top result google is displaying a more detailed result link. It figures out a couple of the main topics of the page and shows them on google allowing you to go straight there.
It doesn't seem to do it all the time, but if one can figure out the rules it uses it would be great, as ...
2005-08-17
Downloadable applications
I just noticed James Duncan has announced a new (to me) online book selling service called Vitalsource. And it me got me to thinking .. is it really worth developing custom applications which run outside of a browser window? The IE/Firefox incompatibilities are well known, and for the most part and no longer important insofar as project risk, and increased development time for a multiplatform browser platform (compared ...