Before getting to the usual thoughts & chuckles, I need to offer a sincere word of thanks. First, to you, the reader, for being interested in these unpolished ideas. Your interest fueled my own....
What would a New Year and last-ever edition of Traffick Monthly be without a few predictions? Some of these are serious. Sorry about that. Jill Whalen’s tongue-in-cheek predictions really cracked me up. Her serious predictions,...
“Search engine positioning” is no easy feat – even if you *are* a search engine, it seems. So how are the engines positioning *themselves*? Along with the unauthorized biography of Jerry Seinfeld, my holiday...
Tuesday, December 31, 2002 New Year’s Resolution: No More “Little Billy” You know what I mean? Lovable “Little Billy” in Family Circus has a short attention span. His meanderings through the house, up a...
What recession? Although North American economic growth in most traditional categories has been stalled for the past year, e-commerce continues to show robust growth. According to comScore’s holiday 2002 e-commerce report, consumer e-commerce totaled $1.9...
What does the future hold for search engine technology companies? What about larger companies like Yahoo which are still heavily identified with search? Can they survive on their own? How will they prosper? What...
Monday, November 25, 2002 From the Duh! Department It appears that AOL might soon begin featuring Time Warner content exclusively on AOL. That means you freeloaders soon won’t be able to access articles from...
I recently talked with Maheesh Jain, cofounder and VP Sales & Marketing of CafePress. Some of you may know them as a provider of mugs and sweatshirts that you can sell to your customers...
As any webmaster or search engine marketer knows, you can’t measure the success of your web site or of your online marketing campaigns without knowing your site statistics. And the only way to know...