Google Analytics integration with Adsense data
Several blogs have picked up on a post which appeared on a blog called The GoogleCache a couple of weeks ago, detailing the author's experience with a new facility to integrate Google Analytics with Adsense. Oddly, the post disappeared, but you can still get it by subscribing to the site's ... Click here to read the rest...
One month away…
Well, I'm one month away from the kickoff date for my new venture, Business Marketing Online, and we open sales for the first product, the Business Marketing Online Insider Programme, next week (8 September). I'll be blogging its progress here - we have no subscribers yet (because we haven't started ... Click here to read the rest...
SEOClass Edinburgh
Interesting couple of days in Edinburgh at Jim Boykin's SEOClass with contrasting presentations from the likes of Lyndon Antcliff, Ammon Johns from Fresh Egg, Brian Turner from Britecorp, Shaun Anderson from Hobo, the extremely entertaining Quadszilla from seoblackhat.com, and of course Jim himself. As ever with these events, the presenters seemed ... Click here to read the rest...
How to broadcast an event live on the web
So, my God-daughter called me a few months before her wedding in Canada to ask: "Would it be possible to broadcast the wedding live on the internet for the family back in the UK?" And my answer was: "Er... I'll find out". Which led me into the fledgling world of live ... Click here to read the rest...
Importing to Wordpress from a text file
I had a website of football reports which was managed by a homebrew flat-file database, and it really needed dragging into the 21st century and being managed by Wordpress, or something like that. But how to transfer the hundreds of entries, with all their dates and categories? It turned out ... Click here to read the rest...
Born to Jump
I'm always amused when Google's AdWords ads go wrong. They're supposed to be "contextual", assessing the search query and matching the right ads to it. My amusement at coming straight in at number one in the Google search results for "discount booze for tramps" (following a blog post about an ... Click here to read the rest...
The case of the disappearing login items
I've always had a problem that login items disappear under OS X, and it hasn't gone away with OS X 10.5 Leopard. I'll add something to the list in the conventional manner, and about 50% of the time, when I next startup the Mac, the application fails to do so ... Click here to read the rest...
The true cost of that OS X Leopard Upgrade
Let's get things straight from the start. I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) this week, it was painless, and it's a worthwhile upgrade (even if some of the interface changes are "insane"). At £79.98 from Amazon UK, it's not unreasonable, especially as there hasn't been an OS update ... Click here to read the rest...
Web 1. Everything Else 0.
There was a time when you had to wait for weeks to get a decent review of a new product. Broadcast media has never stepped up to the plate, and only dead trees would do. It may have taken ten years or more for the internet to find a business ... Click here to read the rest...
How to convert email to RSS for your phone
I came up with a neat workaround this week which might interest those of you who like to get news on your mobile phones, or would like to if it was easier. There's no chance this is an original idea, but I was pleased with myself, nevertheless. Many new phones (such ... Click here to read the rest...