An excellent pdf report on shopping cart and improving your conversion rate.

Click Here -

Best way to do it is to click then save as and download it on your computer.

If you're interested in the next big thing (in web apps) - you may find the following site useful.

http://webreakstuff.com/blog/

Eight things that can be bad for your website -

Click here for details.

Enjoy your weekend.

If you do a lot of advertising with Ad Words then you will enjoy this new program from Google.

http://services.google.com/adwordseditor/index.html

An excellent article on what you should be doing / trends for 2006

http://www.clickz.com/experts/crm/traffic/article.php/3573016

A good article on the state of SEM that you may have missed -

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3575926

Have a good one.

A couple of good articles from a newsletter we like -

1) http://www.demc.com/artman/publish/article_82.shtml
on truths in email marketing.

2) Getting some traffic from the media -
http://www.demc.com/artman/publish/article_79.shtml

Looks like Google and Yahoo still number 1 in America -

http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3578491

Also seems like search records will be under scrutiny -

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?threadid=9701

Enjoy your weekend :o)

Seems that Google may soon have Google Ads on the radio - if you have a podcast and are looking for ways to make some cash this would be excellent for you (or for anyone that wants to earn some cash from recordings).

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Some nice words of wisdom - download - print it and start reading it today.

http://wisdom.marketingsherpa.com/

If you've wondered how to create a 301 redirect - what you should use if you change a page on your site. The following link shows you how to create one.

Forum post with comments -
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=29607

The tutorial itself -

http://ekstreme.com/webmaster/301-redirection.php

Hope you have enjoyed your week - and will enjoy the long weekend. We'll be back on Tuesday.

Till then a very in depth post for you to enjoy on SEO - one key point diversify.

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Interesting news bits from yesterday - tomorrow we'll try and add more of the "old" news.

Google increases their lead over Yahoo -
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How to add a Google map to your pages.
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Keyword prices fall - cost per clicks.
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An excellent article we found yesterday on SEO - it's pretty long so I won't burden you with more.

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I found these interesting -

On click fraud -

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050405-073942


Site maps expands -
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051116-155209

Trusted links -
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051111-102522

Hopefully you enjoyed your weekend. This week we'll continue to review some things we received over the break.

The one thing you need to do today is patch the recent WMF vulnerability

http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us

Click on the "Custom" link if you only want this update.

Enjoy your Monday.

A nice article on readability -
http://www.timetabler.com/reading.html

and about skimming -
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/helpingvisitors

Both may help you convert browsers to buyers which is always a good thing.

Some top searches for 2005

Ask Jeeves

Google

Yahoo

AOL

Lycos

A9 (the top 9 searches with 9 letters)

Nice article on local search -

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An excellent article with five tips on selling more online.

http://www.marketingsherpa.com/barrier.cfm?currentID=3149

So how to change (or not) your marketing efforts after the AOL / Google deal.
http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3572781

Hopefully you enjoyed your weekend / holidays. Happy New Year. This week we'll be posting some news from over the holidays. Enjoy!!

TimeWarner sold 5% of AOL to Google - remember whoever has the most eyeballs wins.
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A nice extension for Fire Fox -
http://quirk.co.za/searchstatus/

A nice explanation to librarians about how Google works.
http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2005_12/article1.html

Have a good one.