While the majority of website owners use Google Analytics to measure their website’s success due to its ease of implementation and lack of cost, there are a few other great analytics options which are well worth checking out. Clicky It offers real-time stats, with a simple, but functional interface. The dashboard is nicely laid out so you ...

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We found this nifty little infographic this morning. The clever people over at Flowtown and Column Five have put it together. While it misses a few obvious networks (e.g Linkedin), it's a great primer for small business owners getting into social media. Enjoy.

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Chrome is quickly making up ground in the browser wars…and for good reason. It’s simple, fast and comes with some awesome extensions and add-ons. I made the move across from Firefox to Chrome about 12 months ago and haven’t looked back. If you’re a website owner, you might want to start using Chrome and these extensions ...

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Addressing the concerns of many webmasters who find that Google sometimes show alternative titles in the organic search results, Google's Pierre Far has given an explanation. While we all know that Google often changes the snippet or description of a site in the search results, what many of us don't know is that Google will often ...

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According to ComScore's latest qSearch analysis report, Google continues to lead the search market with 65.9% of search queries in December conducted in the US search marketplace. However, in a surprising change of events, Microsoft (Bing) climbed up to the second place with 15.1% pushing Yahoo! down to the third spot. December 2011 saw 68.1% of ...

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In what came as shocking news to the entire web community, Yahoo! co-founder, Jerry Yang, has officially resigned from Yahoo! He will no longer be on the board of directors at Yahoo! Inc, Yahoo Japan Corporation and Alibaba Group Holding Limited. Why Yang is leaving? In his departing letter Yang said: My time at Yahoo!, from its founding ...

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A recent report by BBC has revealed that Google UK is facing some serious allegations of running ads for illegal Olympic ticket resellers. The issue was first bought to light by a customer who tried purchasing tickets for the upcoming London Olympics 2012 event. The actual story as told by the customer (Liz): Me and my sisters decided ...

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Google recently produced a list of updates and improvements they made to their search in the month of December 2011 and its well worth a quick scan for anyone who is serious about their website's Google ranking. The list contains 30 improvements and the associated codenames with a sneak peak into how the company comes up ...

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Barely a few hours after Google unveiled ‘Search Plus Your World’  micro-blogging site, Twitter, voiced its disapproval publicly saying that these changes were "bad" for both consumers and web publishers. Twitter said that Google’s recent updates will make it tougher for people to find the breaking news that was being shared by its users only ...

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Google have penalized their own Google Chrome website after it emerged that the URL was caught up in a paid links promotion, a violation of their webmaster guidelines. The problem has arisen after Google paid Unruly Media, an international media agency, to get a number of paid bloggers to promote a video for its Chrome browser ...

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