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Mobile Web Epiphany – The 7th Mass Media

Posted on November 20, 2008. Filed under: 7th mass media, mobile web, social networking, social networks, usability | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

When I set out to research information for an article about the Mobile Web, I had the mindset that Mobile Web was quite immature, that the challenges of getting content onto the mobile phone were many and not well addressed yet. And then I found Tomi Ahonen’s article from May 2008 on his blog “Communities Dominate Brands”. What an epiphany! He made me realize that my concept of mobile web was all wrong.

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Six Steps to Elevating Web Analytics in Your Organization

Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , , , |

Six things savvy web analysts can to to raise their profile within their organizations.

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Target Settles Accessibility Lawsuit with National Federation of the Blind (NFB)

Posted on August 29, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, usability, web design | Tags: , , , , |

August 27, 2008 – Target settled the suit brought against it in 2006 in California by the National Federation of the Blind. Jared Smith’s article on the WebAIM site provides a summary of the settlement, commentary, and opinions of some WebAIM readers. From the Joint Press Release Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation [...]

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What’s Missing from Search Engine Marketing

Posted on August 27, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, high performance site analytics, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , |

First Michael Wexler holds up the mirror and asks “What Web Analytics is Missing”. Now Gerry Bavaro ponders the same thing about search engine marketing. Is there something in the water?

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The Best Use of Flash I’ve Seen

Posted on July 24, 2008. Filed under: ads and ad spending, usability, web analytics, web design | Tags: , , , |

My colleague Kurt has been working on some flash-related stuff that he just shared with me…I have just seen one of the best uses of flash I have ever seen.

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Web Optimization Defined

Posted on June 18, 2008. Filed under: high performance site analytics, metrics and measurement, quality, search, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , , , , |

Web optimization is much bigger than increasing your Google page rank, increasing your page views, having a sexier design, identifying web analytics KPIs or any of the other facets of the prism you can name.

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The art and science of website structures

Posted on May 29, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design | Tags: , , , , , , |

If you could round up every detail there is to know about a thing – in this case a website – the only thing left to do is figure out what question you want to ask.

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“We’re looking for the mouse”

Posted on May 21, 2008. Filed under: usability, web design | Tags: , , , , , |

What do gin, Desperate Housewives and a mouse have in common? Watch Clay Skirky’s video to find out.

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Conversion Rates Revisited – The One Percent Solution

Posted on April 30, 2008. Filed under: accessibility, high performance site analytics, privacy, quality, search engine optimization, usability, web analytics, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Download the Conversion Rate Calculator In my last post, I noted that Coremetrics has begun releasing benchmark data collected from their ~300 clients. A couple of the stats really caught my attention: The typical conversion rate is 3.29% Conversions Where Site Search Was Used – 14.84% of consumers used site search during their visits – [...]

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Mobile web big bang

Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: ads and ad spending, metrics and measurement, mobile web, usability, web design, web standards | Tags: , , , , , , |

The mobile web noise is getting increasingly louder and the big bang is coming, as market conditions and influences converge. Several factors will contribute, and all of them are in motion and picking up speed. There’s: Abundance – the abundance of mobile devices and our resulting reliance on them Controlled cost – mobile content at [...]

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