Many of the large web players offer or will soon offer analytics products for free. If you use them they may eventually charge you for the service, or they may keep them free but look for other ways to charge you, and use your own statistics against your best interests, by doing one or more of the following
using your site to help categorize keywords that competitors should bid on (and do SEO for)
compare your direct traffic to search traffic and flag your site for review to potentially reduce your search traffic if it is outside the normal range for your given industry
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Mar
28
Feb
5
SEO or PPC: Can Your Business Survive Only On Pay-Per-Click Advertising?Writing by Nick on Thursday, 26 of July , 2007 at 1:26 pm
Funny story. Google banned this guy for buying links so instead of owning up and asking for absolution he decides he doesn’t need Google. So he starts buying sponsored ads - paying for links! I’m anxious to see how he does.
But it does bring up an interesting question that the pilgrims have offered an answer for:
Tags: Business, Only, Pay-Per-Click, Survive, Your
Jan
5
When I read must we piss in every public fountain by Dan Thies, I thought it was a great post. But at the same time, as an internet marketer you have to be pragmatic. Which is why I was unsurprised when 6 months later StomperNet sent out an email suggesting that readers could
visit propeller.com and open up 10 unique accounts using different usernames, email addresses, etc.
Use free email accounts from Yahoo, Gmail, etc. to open up the accounts.
Tags: Ethical, Generator, Only, Promote, Spammers, This, Tool, Warning
Dec
7
Why Your Blog Can Rank Only OnceWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Thursday, 24 of April , 2008 at 3:40 pm
If Google, who for all intents and purposes owns and defines search, does not want a single web property ranking for the same keyword phrase more than once in order to maintain a diversity of search results for searchers, what do we make of blogs on a particular topic that have the potential to rank several pages for the same key phrase? Should bloggers be concerned that they are being discriminated against?
Tags: Blog, Once, Only, rank, Your
Nov
28
WebProNews, Is It Really The Only News There Is?Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 3 of February , 2008 at 8:34 am
Warning: This is not an SEOd blog post. It IS a WTF?
Admittedly, when news first broke of Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo!, it was interesting news. I wrote a blog post about it. I ate it up. I giggled. I snorted. I jumped for joy. I spat on the ground and clinched my fist. I raged. I ranted. I smiled. I chanted. And now I’m feeling like Dr Seuss. But I gather you get the point.
Tags: Only, really, There, WebProNews
Jan
26
