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March 2005

Google Buys Urchin

by Shane Robinson on March 31, 2005

Google announced late Monday afternoon (March 28th, 2005) that it had reached an agreement with Urchin to buy the web analytics company. We can’t wait to see what the power and deep pockets of Google have in store for our favorite web stats reporting software. Here’s one of my favorite articles on the purchase. Over [...]

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Use Site Structure for Better Search Engine Results

by Roxanne Darling on March 28, 2005

Problem: Not being found is a particular problem with sites that are built all in Flash, or that have a lot of images and not a lot of HTML text. You may see words, but the search engine robots won’t if they are actually images. Be sure that you can select specific words with your [...]

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Using Gmail as a File Server

by Roxanne Darling on March 5, 2005

Gmail is the email service currently being offered by Google in beta (test) release. One of the big advantages of it is that each account gets 1 GB (that’s a gigabyte) of storage. I got into the gmail game reluctantly, as it’s no secret I already have a lot of email accounts!  But using it [...]

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Click Fraud and the Search Engines

by Roxanne Darling on March 1, 2005

It seemed like such a good idea. Choose the best search terms that fit your business, bid on them at Google, then pay only when a user clicks on your link and comes to your web site. Until your competition finds your link and runs up your account. Costing you wasted money. Keeping customers away [...]

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