Protoscopic

Most of the major search engines have some kind of “Webmaster tools.” The three we use so far are:

Google Webmaster Tools
Live Search Webmaster Center
Yahoo! Site Explorer

Number 42 for "strap on"…oh dear.

In a not-surprising turn of events, Google’s is by far the most useful. Although its utility diminishes somewhat when it is “punishing” you. [...]

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Make me stop refreshing the reports!

I love Google Analytics
In fact I may love it too much. I often spend far too much of my day sitting in front of the screen checking to see if and how our visitation numbers have changed. It’s really quite a waste of time. That being said [...]

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Experiments in Making Connections

You’ve heard us talk about our link-building frustrations and about how tempting it is to bring in loads of traffic through temporary links. But we continue to put our collective nose to the grindstone, because, as Andy Hagans and Aaron Wall at SEOBook say in the archived 2006 gem,101 Link Building Tips [...]

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