Running Urchin VS Google Analytics
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408
| 15/07/2008
We were asked by a client recently to evaluate Urchin vs Google Analytics and provide analysis of each application. Both are web statistics programs owned and presented by Google, and discerning which is the right fit for your company can take some digging.
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Web 2.0
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Online Trends
Twitter – Maximizing its Potential for Business
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Blogs
399
| 2/07/2008
Twitter.com, as we’ve said, is the tactic of zeitgeist. It’s the technological equivalent of haiku: tiny fragments that stimulate immediate interest in a greater picture.
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Web 2.0
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Business
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Online Trends
Embedding PowerPoint into your Website?
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Blogs
396
| 30/06/2008
PowerPoint is the leading business software for presentations. It has become ubiquitous in most corporate meetings. But why keep such an extraordinary wealth of information locked inside the conference?
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Technology
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Business
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Media
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Web 2.0
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Online Trends
Linkedin for Business
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397
| 30/06/2008
While the attention is on Facebook, another social networking site has been growing faster and gathering a powerful community of users. LinkedIn has distinguished itself as the Internet gathering place for professionals.
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Web 2.0
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Web Design
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Media
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Business
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Online Trends
Blog Ideas to Drive Traffic
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391
| 12/06/2008
There is a marketing adage that says that people don’t want to be ‘sold to’ – they want to be ‘communicated with’. A blog is the perfect platform to have this conversation with both existing and potential customers.
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Corporate Blogging
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Online Trends
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Web 2.0
Building your website’s traffic strategy
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Blogs
393
| 12/06/2008
The most successful clients are those that start planning their traffic strategy about 75% through the web development. The strategy can have many moving parts, depending on the goals of the site. Here are some ideas that can help.
tags:
Online Trends
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Sydney Web Design
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Web 2.0
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Common Sense
Spending on Web 2.0
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Blogs
390
| 3/06/2008
Web 2.0 is the business revolution that is making the World Wide Web the platform for information sharing, collaboration and creativity. As businesses look to make this evolution a reality, spending is expected to reach nearly US$5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools.
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Business
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Online Trends
Use Mapping to help customers find you
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Blogs
384
Gillian Lindsay | 14/05/2008
Want to show customers on your website exactly where you’re located? You can, with a customized map from Yahoo™ or Google™!
tags:
Web 2.0
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Online Trends
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Search
5 things every Real Estate website needs
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Blogs
385
Luke Manion | 14/05/2008
So what makes your Real Estate website different to the next? Here are fivegreat ideas to increase traffic, bring in new clients and find new staff.
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Sydney Web Design
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Common Sense
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Online Trends
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Business
Online Store for Politicians
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Blogs
369
Sushiv Mathur | 23/04/2008
Politicians have long appreciated the Internet as an unparalleled marketing and publicity machine. In the United States, Steve Forbes announced his candidacy for the country’s presidential campaign via a web site in early 1999.
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Online Trends
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Business
Google Analytics
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Blogs
370
Jason Deacon | 23/04/2008
Ever wondered how your company’s website fares against others in your industry? Google Analytics, a free service offered by Google, can provide detailed statistics about your website – including industry benchmarking that tells you exactly how your website compares.
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Technology
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Online Trends
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Issues
Video content brings traffic
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Blogs
372
Robert Beerworth | 23/04/2008
Video content provides that fresh, interactive experience visitors are looking for. Additionally, video adds a lot more punch to promotions and marketing campaigns.
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Web 2.0
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Online Trends
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Media
Banner Ads That Work
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Blogs
373
Adam Tedeschi | 23/04/2008
5 essential tips from our design team on how to create banner ads that actually get clicked.
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Sydney Web Design
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Media
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Online Trends
The Best Footer Designs
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Blogs
375
David Cheng | 23/04/2008
Once the afterthought of website design, recently there has been a Footer revival. The real estate at the bottom of a web page is now being utilized as more than just polish on the apple.
tags:
Web Design
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Online Trends
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Search Engine Optimisation Sydney
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Issues
Why You Should Optimize Your Website for RSS
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Blogs
377
Luke Manion | 23/04/2008
Like a newspaper or magazine gathers articles for readers, Internet denizens have taken to using programs that collect dynamic content of their favourite sites. This allows them to do create a single page that scans a list of websites to either previews fresh content or even provide entire articles.
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Web Design
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Online Trends
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Search Engine Optimisation Sydney
Flash application development for Facebook
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Blogs
379
Gabriel Muller | 23/04/2008
Many of the recent Facebook applications we’ve designed are Flash applications that were made to operate in the Facebook environment. These can greatly increase traffic if developed for your website.
tags:
Online Trends
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facebook applications
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Web 2.0
5 Ways to Go Green With Your Website
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Blogs
380
Luke Manion | 23/04/2008
Earth Day and other initiatives build awareness of how we can work to save resources, reduce waste, and recycle what is already in use. As you build and develop your company’s website, here are some ideas to ‘Go Green’.
tags:
Sydney Web Design
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Online Trends
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Technology
Designing Google Gadget Ads
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Blogs
364
Benjamin Christie | 7/04/2008
Google gadget ads are much like widgets and can include dizzying variety of content like video, animation, data feeds, maps, images, music and audio or JavaScript. They can be coded in plus they can be developed in Flash and HTML. Additionally, they can be built in any number of shapes, sizes, and formats.
tags:
Web Development
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Online Trends
Namesqueeze Pages, Could they work for your company’s site?
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Blogs
361
Luke Manion | 26/03/2008
When thinking about the design of your company’s site, one of the components you may consider is a Namesqueeze page. It’s a device meant to capture opt-in emails for future marketing campaigns.
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Web 2.0
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Online Trends
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Corporate Blogging
Getting the most from Google AdWords
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Blogs
357
| 17/03/2008
The buy-in for Google Adwords can be very low and yield massive results. This is the allure that has made their Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign so overwhelmingly popular.
tags:
Viral Marketing
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SEO Sydney
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Search Engine Optimisation Sydney
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Online Trends
What can microsites offer your corporate website?
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Blogs
345
Gillian Lindsay | 13/03/2008
Could a microsite be right for your company website? They provide a powerful online advantage when used well.
tags:
Online Trends
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Viral Marketing
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Email Marketing
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Business
Should you build a corporate blog?
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Blogs
347
Martin Wicyniak | 13/03/2008
A corporate blog can be an effective marketing device. While all blogs provide a venue for quick publishing and water cooler-type dialogue, there are two major kinds. Each provides very different benefits to your organization.
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Business
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Corporate Blogging
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Online Trends
Getty gets gobbled
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Blogs
348
Adam Tedeschi | 11/03/2008
In a move set to stabilise the foundations of creative stock providers; online giant Getty Images has been acquired by private equity and investment firm; Hellman and Friedman on the 25th February 2008
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Web Design
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Business
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Online Trends
Get the Goss – With Fox8’s Gossip Girl Facebook Application
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Blogs
324
James Cox | 19/11/2007
Ever since Facebook flung opened its doors to developers, the social networking portal has added over 7,000 applications. Introducing the latest kid on the Facebook Application Platform – The Gossip Girl Facebook Application.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Viral Marketing
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Web Development
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Online Trends
Can you Google My Space?
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Blogs
320
James Cox | 2/11/2007
In a bid to dominate the social networking neighborhood, plans have been announced this week that sees Google and over a dozen other leading social networks team together in a bid to overtake rival Facebook.
OpenSocial, the new joint social media venture with MySpace in addition to a collective of companies led by Google, will introduce standardised tools to allow software developers to write programs for the global social network.
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Web 2.0
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Business
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Online Trends
Google PageRank drop affecting sites all across the board
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Blogs
319
Radica Raeves | 25/10/2007
The Search Marketing blogosphere is abuzz with all kinds of theories and assumptions as to why that little green Google PR bar has suddenly dropped overnight - in most cases not just by a factor of one, but even by two or three.
However, this is not the first glitch with the PageRank metric this month.
tags:
Online Trends
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SEO Melbourne
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Search Engine Optimisation Melbourne
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SEO
Crash course in writing successful blogs
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Blogs
296
Tom Gregory | 10/09/2007
Find out the top 5 tips to writing a successful blog.
tags:
Corporate Blogging
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Online Trends
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Web 2.0
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SEO Melbourne
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Search Engine Optimisation Melbourne
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SEO
Internet Marketing Online in a Web 2.0 World
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Blogs
295
| 6/09/2007
Fact - your customers now spend more time online than they do with traditional media. This reflects a huge shift in society. Clear and simple, online marketing is where it’s at. Introducing PR2.0
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SEO
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Corporate Blogging
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Online Trends
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Email Marketing
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Web 2.0
Combining video content with SEO
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Blogs
294
| 6/09/2007
As a great selling point, organisations can use a creative, cleverly marketed video package to demonstrate and display your product or service. Optimised content entices users to your web site and increase the average time spent browsing your web site.
tags:
Technology
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SEO
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Podcasts
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Online Trends
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Web 2.0
What does web 2.0 mean to my business ?
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Blogs
292
James Cox | 5/09/2007
Trends are fantastic and the internet has taken hold of the iconic web 2.0 phenomenon like the drop-shadow of an e-Fish to Water; luckily for web design firms across the world, a new era of web 2.0 design and web 2.0 development has ensued.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Business
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Web Design
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Technology
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Online Trends
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Melbourne Web Design
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Melbourne
Social Networking, how advertising is bringing in the profits
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Blogs
286
| 29/08/2007
A report from eMarketer outlined the predicted increase in advertising revenue generated by social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook. MySpace recorded an annual profit of $440 million for the year ending on June 30th.
tags:
Online Trends
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Web 2.0
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Technology
,
Viral Marketing
What is User Generated Content?
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Blogs
290
| 29/08/2007
Featuring User Generating Content on your website strikes a direct connection with your target market.
tags:
Business
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Online Trends
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SEO Melbourne
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Search Engine Optimisation Melbourne
,
SEO
Top 5 Tips for Social Bookmarking
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Blogs
288
| 29/08/2007
Optimise your web site using the top 5 tips for Social Bookmarking.
tags:
Business
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Online Trends
,
SEO Melbourne
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Search Engine Optimisation Melbourne
,
SEO
Facebook Social Media Optimisation
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Blogs
284
James Cox | 27/08/2007
Developing Facebook applications is amongst one of the many Social Media Optimisation services Wiliam can implement to extend your business brand.
tags:
SEO
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Business
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Online Trends
,
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 set to sweep the Australian Real Estate market
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Blogs
282
| 23/08/2007
Web 2.0 set to sweep the Australian Real Estate market having already conquered the American market with great effect.
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