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10 Ways Piwik is Better Than Google Analytics


Piwik is is better than Google Analytics in many ways, at least 10 of them. It's: Free, really free, you don't pay with your data. Once you use Google ...

How to Remove utm_source & Other Parameters From Your URLs


These days it's a quite common and very annoying habit by a few services to attach utm_source and other parameters to your internet address aka URL. It's not only that. Basically anybody can ...
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The Anatomy of an SEO 2.0 Web Directory of the Highest Quality


* I'm preparing a SEO 2.0 web directory right here on my blog as you might have noticed already. What? A web directory? In SEO 2.0? It sounds ...
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Usability Experts Still Fail Themselves on World Usability Day 2010


* Two years ago I celebrated my first world usability day by pointing out usability mistakes usability experts commit. Fast forward to 2010 and what do I see? World ...
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Top 7 CSS Tricks for Better SEO


Google baby by skoop. As most of us know it is often really difficult to build websites for both the user and Google. Google still needs to be assisted in finding ...

Help Me Finding a Tagline for SEO 2.0!


Hello SEO 2.0 readers: After two years without a tagline on my blog I'm considering adding one again for usability reasons. A tagline is meant to explain the purpose of a ...
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10 Blogging Mistakes Most Bloggers Make


Executed by mistake is a Creative Commons image by the moog. Sometimes it takes years of blogging to notice your most obvious mistakes. I've been blogging for several years privately, ...
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The New Delicious Front Page is Broken and Easily Gamed


For years the Delicious front page has been the better Digg. No political bias, no teenage geek crap with b00bs, FAILs ...

6 New SEO 2.0 Definitions: It’s the People’s SEO, about Relevancy & ORM but not…


SEO 2.0 doesn't exist and I'm glad it doesn't! OK, SEO 2.0 doesn't exist according to Wikipedia. It existed, someone wrote an excellent article about it but the Wikipedia censors deleted it. ...

User and Search Friendly URL Design for Multi-Language Websites in 4 Easy Steps


What an overwhelming headline! User and search friendly URL design for multi-language websites? What are you talking about? Let me explain. Then I'll introduce to you the 4 easy steps you ...
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Hey Marketers on Twitter: It’s not a Link List


Although I don't call myself a marketer, I'm an optimizer, most people assume I am one. So all kinds of marketers follow me on Twitter and
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Web Trends 2009


You know by now that I'm a big fan of the Web Trend Map by iA. I featured the 2007 and the 2008 web trend ...
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7 Stealth Publish for WordPress Uses to Consider


CC: Stealth by Johnson Camerface. A WordPress plugin that removes posts from the RSS feed is what I've been searching for for a while now. I thought it would be an ...
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Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov – When will it come to your Website?


Image: Brick Obama by ~emeph Immediately after Barack Obama has been sworn in as the new president of the United States the Whitehouse.gov website has been ...
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The Only 7 WordPress Plugins Business Bloggers Need


CC: Only only by Thomas Hawk. Serious, professional and business bloggers listen up: Forget all those top 100 WordPress Plugins lists, those top 10 SEO Plugins for WordPress compilations. I blog for 4 ...
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The 10 Simplest Website Tweaks for Designers to Get More Clients


Ignore this by Reeuwijk. The main message of many designers' websites. Are you a graphic, industrial or web designer? Do you want your website to look good? Do you ignore, hate or forget ...
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10 Reasons Why Mixx is Broken and How to Fix it


Yeah, I can recognize the eyes. Seen them stolen again and again on Mixx. I'm fed up: My favorite social news site Mixx is currently broken. ...
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7 Usability Mistakes Usability Experts Commit


Usability expert at work? CC: Bela donna by hypertypos. Today, November 13th, is World Usability Day. I'm not really involved in it in spite of being really interested in usability user-centered ...