Archive for March, 2006

Improve Search Marketing for Large Sites

March 28, 2006

My Search Engine Marketing, Inc. co-author, Bill Hunt has collaborated with me on another article. This one’s called “Improve Search Marketing for Large Sites“—find out how big sites really are different and what you can do about it.

Get Your Web Site Into Search Indexes

March 21, 2006

My co-author of Search Engine Marketing, Inc., Bill Hunt collaborated with me on an article posted today on IBM’s developerWorks. The piece, called “Get Your Web Site Into Search Indexes” shows you how to find out whether your pages are listed in organic search indexes and how to get them there.

How Shoppers Use Your Web Site

March 14, 2006

Have you ever wondered exactly what tasks your site visitors undertake when they are shopping for something on your site? If so, you may want to investigate a technique called use cases, which allow analysis of your visitor’s behavior—so that you can tune your site to sell more.

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The Search for E-Mail Relevance

March 13, 2006

E-mail marketing can be exquisitely targeted or it can be spam, depending in large measure on the work done by the sender to ensure relevance to the recipient. One method of targeting is to use search engines.

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The Future of Multifaceted Search is Fuzzy

March 10, 2006

Multifaceted search is a passion of mine—I have seen this technique improve experiences in both e-Commerce and other information retrieval interfaces. But, as useful as multifaceted search can be, it still suffers from one of the bugaboos of database search—exactitude. Is the future of multifaceted search a little fuzzy?

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