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GetClicky – a God among webstats providers


For a long time I used Google Analytics to provide webstats for me and for my clients – and it worked. Great stats, pretty graphs, nice figures – everything I needed.The problem I had was that I couldn’t get real time stats – I had to wait until the next day, by which time in some cases it was too late to react to surges in traffic.

I needed something that showed me what my visitors were doing and where they were coming from NOW, not yesterday!

And then I found GetClicky.

Tip #90 – Variety is the spice of life

Date: 17th July 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Links, No no no!

Don’t get everyone to link to you with the same anchor text, and don’t use the same anchor text in all of your links.

Vary the text to give you more of a chance with different search phrases.

This also ensures that Google doesn’t see the exact same anchor text for you everywhere and mistakenly presume you’ve been on some automated spree.

Tip #90 – Variety is the spice of life

Date: 17th July 2008
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Links, No no no!

Don’t get everyone to link to you with the same anchor text, and don’t use the same anchor text in all of your links.

Vary the text to give you more of a chance with different search phrases.

This also ensures that Google doesn’t see the exact same anchor text for you everywhere and mistakenly presume you’ve been on some automated spree.

From the horse’s (well, Google’s) mouth.

Date: 25th June 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Blogging, Bonus Tips, Content, Freebies, Google, Links, Titles & Tags

USA Today recently interviewed Google’s Matt Cutts and he shared his top tips for getting listed in Google. No surprises, to be honest, but I thought I’d share :)

  1. Spotlight your search term on the page.
  2. Fill in your tags.
  3. Get other sites to link back to you.
  4. Create a blog and post often.
  5. Register for free Google tools.
  6. Don’t overdo it!

More here >>>

Tip #170 – The time is right

Date: 23rd June 2008
No Comments Related Categories: Links

Most business to business sites in the UK will not need to run pay per click ads all night, so switch them off if possible.

Most of my clients run ads from 7am to 9pm only – in one client’s case simply changing this small thing saved them hundreds of pounds in clicks per month, yet their ROI didn’t drop at all!