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Facebook & Twitter up 82% Year over Year

23 February 2010 Analysis

Led by Facebook, Twitter, Global Time Spent on Social Media Sites up 82% Year over Year
According to The Nielsen Company, global* consumers spent more than five and half hours on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in December 2009, an 82% increase from the same time last year when users [...]

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Keyword Search Engines Stats Are In – Google? Yahoo? Who Wins?

10 February 2010 Advice

Keyword and Search Engines Statistics
All figures are given as percentages and the data is compiled from searches done in the last month from the report date.Current Report: 2009-10-01
Query Size By Country
The following table contains the percentage of single vs. multiple word searches in various languages..
It provides a good indication of the current search behavior and [...]

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Google Analytics Goals and Funnels: Back to Basics

1 February 2010 Advice

“Goals are great and it is amazing how many people don’t have them setup! Goals allow you to track visitors who convert on your site, so they can provide you with really quick insights with only a few minutes of setup time.”
Not a truer word/s spoken or even written.
Google is a powerhouse of excellent “free” [...]

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How To Measure Website Success

29 January 2010 Advice

Every site owner wants to see the results of his or her work. However, people who are new to internet marketing and search engine optimization often pay attention to the things that do not really indicate a website’s success.
Think, for instance, of Google PR. Google employees say themselves that Google PR is just one of [...]

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Top 10 Bad IT Decisions

20 January 2010 Analysis

An Article From http://www.itnews.com.au/
By Shaun Nichols, Iain Thomson
Famous head-slap moments from history.
In light of the UK government’s ill-thoughtout and wrong-headed decision to support a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule for internet service providers we thought we’d take a look at the history of stupid decision making in the IT field.
We’ve all had the [...]

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Why Google Analytics?

10 January 2010 Advice

An Excellent post By: Matt Bailey (2010-01-08) for InternetFinacialNews. Could not agree more with Matts sentiments and his concise way of putting things. Google Rocks.
I know that there are a lot of people who are wondering if they should make the switch to Google Analytics, and I would say, yes. I was one of [...]

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Conroy prepares for wireless spectrum sale

6 January 2010 Analysis

The Gov are at it again trying to spruce up and tighten an already tightly bound competitors market that only a few can play in. Is this a good thing?
Warns of costs to broadcasters and consumers.

By Ben Grubb
Jan 6, 2010 10:53 AM
Tags: spectrum | wireless | conroy | minister | federal | government | tv [...]

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Twitter’s Most Influential Topics of 2009

2 January 2010 Analysis

Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.
In 2009, influence emerged as a source of filtering and focus, especially when Twitter () released its new “lists” feature to empower users to organize and follow custom streams by topic, personality, and themes.
Klout, which analyzes [...]

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Survey: Social media makes good business, bad workers

1 January 2010 Analysis

By: Andrea Koskey
Examiner Staff Writer
December 31, 2009
Companies and government agencies are using social networking sites such as Facebook to make announcements and keep in touch with the community. (Courtesy photo)
Businesses are increasingly using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter for marketing purposes, but those same companies don’t want employees logging on during [...]

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Video-How To Create A Google Analytics Account

31 December 2009 Analysis

I thought this Video article was educational, thought I’d pass it on

Google Analytics is free and after watching this video on how to create and setup your Google Analytics account you will also see just how easy it is as well. So lets get watching so you can then head over and setup your Analytics [...]

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