Warmest Greetings,

:: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 ::

With the SEO Conference going on in Chicago and everyone trying to get the scoop on what's up with Google, I'm nestled here in my little office reading Viagra spam emails with a farting dog, lazy cats and a Christmas shopping list I haven't touched yet.

Onto the roundabout...

My friend Bill Slawski is always up on blogs. As one of the moderators for the Blogs section of Cre8asiteForums, he finds neat things. Here's one of them. Blog Tools from PCMag.

Running commentary from Chicago's conference can be found courtesy of Andy Beal's SearchEngine LowDown

Are you a web traffic watcher? Now you can be a web traffic people watcher too! Visitorville.com is a new application that allows you to "see" your website visitors. There's a free trial. I haven't tried it yet but the concept is intriguing.

"Finally, see your website visitors as people, in real time! Until now, website traffic monitoring, statistics, and analytics have meant information expressed statically, numerically -- boringly. But your website visitors are real people. They move around your site as if it were a small town. They stop at certain places, and ignore others. Repeat visitors and paying customers behave differently than first-time visitors. The only way you can see this, and successfully track your visitors, is visually! That's why VisitorVille was created. So you can watch your website traffic as if you were watching a movie!"

Greg R. Notess takes a deeper look into searching, and how to dig deeper to get precise results in Unusual Power Web Searching Commands

For IT folks, Rick Noble writes Putting "Information" First in Information Technology

"Here are some examples of industries that I believe are facing a critical crossroads regarding the implementation of information access for their customers. While each specific area is unique, the overriding problem is the same: How do we best use technology to deliver the right information at the right time?"

Still more interesting Google SERPS...Why Do You Think This Site is Number One?
"After seeing this, and examples like the "miserable failure" joke that people pulled off, I honestly think google was putting TOO much emphasis on inbound link text."

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 12/10/2003 10:07:59 AM

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