Landing Page Myths

Just found the presentation below via a tweet from Avinash Kaushik, web analytics guru extraordinaire and Analytics Evangelist for Google. He says: One of the best landing page optimization and testing presentations I’ve read in a long time. I couldn’t agree more. Great thoughts from Scott Brinker. In fact, Scott’s presentation goes beyond analytics, with [...]

Targeted Optimization

A couple of months ago I wrote about Web Site Optimization and the benefits of testing creative to drive higher response rates on your website. I left you with a question, Should marketers be focused on pure Quantity or the Quality of the leads generated via their landing pages? My response was ‘yes’! By leveraging [...]

eMetrics: 6 things I brought back to Dallas

It’s been a week since eMetrics, San Jose which has given me time to reflect back on conference. The variety of topics pulled together by the group was truly amazing as there was something for everyone at all times. My biggest challenge, too many times I found myself struggling to select a session amongst the sessions competing for the same time.
eMetrics definitely lived up to it’s reputation and more importantly my expectations. Great speakers, great networking, and a great group of professionals showed up to talk about the latest and greatest in Measuring interactive, as well as the challenges they face everyday and the solutions they have come up with. The amazing high level of brilliant conversations throughout the week left me thinking about some core themes heard throughout the week.

Twitter Getting Serious About Search

Remember a while back when I was pontificating about search becoming more social? Probably not. But, check this… Twitter’s new VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram recently told CNET about some interesting changes coming to Twitter Search. Even now, searching on Twitter often provides faster and more relevant results than Google (note Jayaram’s earthquake story at [...]

Your search is in my social. Your social is in my search. Two great tastes that taste great together!

Industry Insight Items of the Week: What Social Media Means for Search It’s not just what’s on a page or who links to it; it’s how it relates to users’ personal networks The lines between search and social media are starting to blur.  It’s not just whose content you are reading but how you found [...]

LeapFish aggregates and speeds up search

If the destination site is dying and the interwebs are becoming a mashed up collection of APIs, why should search be any different? I recently found search startup LeapFish and I’m quite impressed with the speed and utility. So impressed, that it’s currently number 2 in my FireFox search toolbar (if you really want to [...]

Spilling the Not-So-Secret Sauce of SEO

Oh, I bet certain shady SEO companies hate when people do this — it must be something like the fabled magician’s code (Never Show Them How It’s Done) — but James Morris spills it over at Search Engine Journal: There is no secret sauce in SEO! Meaning that yes, SEO done well takes some skill, [...]