Brian said "What interests me is why Google choose Urchin out of all the other vendors available - WebTrends included..." The precedent is set in their naming...
hehehe - not thorough enough There is a flaw in what I sent. The test was done using Mozilla where I had changed the default setting for cache validation to...
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Alex Chudnovsky
alexc@...
Apr 1, 2005 1:58 pm
... I stand corrected Oliver -- apologies for not researching prefetching in details before posting uninformed conclusions about it. From posts on this subject...
http://www.clickz.com/experts/crm/traffic/article.php/3493976 Great summary, B! Since a lot of us think that we're about to embark on a new era in the history...
Eric, I work for a marketing agency in Denver, CO. We just purchased a web-based banner advertisement for a white paper on behalf of one of our clients. The...
Just to clarify, you are saying 21% of visitors from your banner ad convert by completing your reg form? or is that 21% from all visitors? Either way, that's...
For a well targetted campaign (banner in your case) and a good landing page, we usually see immediate conversions in the range 20-30% (I personally have never...
Bryan, Curious if you had any more insight into the Overture API situation outside what has already been posted on ClickZ? I took the concern brought up you to...
This is a problem with our industry- even when someone starts to ask the right questions, they're inevitably brought back to bizarro-world. What is driving...
For those of you interested in Web acceleration, Fireclick was one of the pioneers of predictive caching on the Internet back in the days. We first introduced...
... on top of all the activity (more coming apparently) Mary Wagner at InternetRetailer just dropped this ** very ** well written piece on the analytics...
Nicely said. There's always room for improvement. Playing devil's advocate however, conversion rate isn't the end-all, be-all of success metrics. A 21% ...
Hi-- Jessica, it seems like the abandonment rate on the reg page is kind of high. If they've already clicked through to that page and are not purchasing...
Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback. To answer some questions... The goal of the campaign is to generate leads. Therefore, the registration page and...
Jessica, Do you have a statement of security on that page? Many times visitors are unsure of where their information may end up. Try adding a security ...
Hi Jessica, I'm not so sure a large number of site referrals is exactly the best way to measure confidence in the campaign. Your registration process seems...
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Alex Chudnovsky
alexc@...
Apr 1, 2005 11:07 pm
... I am not so sure -- so far information from Google implies that they use prefetch tag only in cases when they are "sure", which in itself appears to be...
Let's not lose sight of Mozilla here, which is the real source. Google is merely deciding to use the prefetch feature that Mozilla added to its browsers some...
http://bobpage.net/2005/04/01/an-industry-on-the-move/ "Error Page Analytics" ... I am still LMFAO! Bob, you're a genius! -- Eric T. Peterson Author, Web...
Is this really such a big issue for many vendors?? I am not sure why. Search Engine ranking positions, both organic and PPC, are surely just as important as an...
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Jason Grigsby
jason-yahoo@...
Apr 3, 2005 7:06 am
There is a slashdot article today on a company embedding technology in pdfs to track their distribution even if they are downloaded and emailed to other...
Oops, wishing Mozilla would add an indicator to the UA string for prefetched hits is one of my stupider ideas, since that would foul up sessionizing using...
... up ... Oh, I meant to post my reply in the forum, but I guess I must have sent it to Chris only. That would explain why it never showed up. :-) I made a...
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Alex Chudnovsky
alexc@...
Apr 4, 2005 2:54 pm
"United Virtualities is offering online marketers and publishers technology that attempts to undermine the growing trend among consumers to delete cookies...
