Recently we have been using Google’s fabulous website optimizer to improve conversions on a site we are running. The system uses A/B testing and is very easy to set up and use. It does have one major problem however, and that is you cannot exclude the IP address of certain visitors. I discovered this when [...]
Continue Reading...It’s seems my sites have now been reindexed, thank god. Well all in all they were only offline for 4 days. It just goes to show that sometimes its worth making a noise about things. I’m sure ranting here and in the Google forums helped! Thanks for being responsive Google. Still the whole thing was [...]
Continue Reading...The other day I received an email from Google. A small transcript is below. Dear site owner or webmaster of voodoochilli.net, While we were indexing your web pages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en_GB. This appears to be because [...]
Continue Reading...I find it really quite funny that people actually believe the story about some Google boss accidentally sending the email with the details of their new browser. The comic within was great, certainly a finished piece as far as I could see. And then, the launch of the browser the next day – funny how [...]
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