Google Analytics Gives You Everything

I love Google, and I especially love Google’s Analytics tool. As I mentioned recently, it’s one of the top five tools that website owners should be using to administer their site. One of my favorite parts of the tool is the Map Overlay section. Here’s mine from today. So, I didn’t get a lot of traffic today, and of course most of it came from the states. No big...

Another Contest, This One’s For the Links

Bryan over at One Man’s Goal is trying to help himself and every other blogger out by having a contest to see who can gain the most over the next month. The goal is to help move yourself up in Alexa and Technorati rankings over the month of August.  Of course anyone who knows SEO knows that Bryan will probably be getting a good boost from the linkbacks that he’s getting off this, but...

Living Online

I was sitting in the coffee shop today talking to my friend Jay, and her boyfriend, Austin about computers, the internet, and the social web. Austin and I are both online and interact on several social sites, Jay has never been to MySpace. This got me to thinking, do we need to be online? Is it necessary to live this interactive life with people we’ve never met physically? Could we...

Five Google Applications Every Web Owner Must Use

I love Google. I love their Search Engine. I love their work philosophy. I love their employees. I love the random stuff they come up with. I would love to work there someday, but until I get a call to take over for Vanessa Fox, I’ll have to be content to use the tools that she and others have created, and for website owners Google has made some great tools. Here are the five tools that...

Harry Potter vs. Luke Skywalker

Having recently finished the last of the Harry Potter books I was struck by the realization that Harry Potter lived a very similar life to another hero of mine, Luke Skywalker. Now I know I’m probably not the first person to jump to this conclusion, in fact I’m sure that J.K. Rowling took the some of the ideas for Harry’s life from the same sources that George Lucas used for...