Archive for July, 2007

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Google Australia Blog

Yep, there is now a Google Australia Blog. Looks to me that it’s a combo of:
1) Re-worded (to mention Australia) promotions of Google products actually available worldwide
2) Australian news stories not really related to Google, but slipping the word Google in there…
Obviously stories like the ACCC’s action against Google will be blogged about, but that’s […]

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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Business Idea - NZ News Newsletter

There are a lot of Kiwis in Australia. Although there are news bullletins on Sky each day, the only option I am aware of for getting a weekly summary (ie all the important stories) is a small newspaper that is quite expensive.
It would be reasonably easy to create a newsletter featuring the top stories of […]

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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Google’s example of A/B testing

When you have the number of visitors (and resources) of Google, it makes sense to actually use A/B/C/D/E testing.
The Google example shows 5 GMail sign-up buttons, but they could just as easily have had 25 variations. When the question is as straight-forward as “what % of visitors to this page sign up”, without caring about […]

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Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Dead Sites - Hidden Potential

I was updating the content on my page of Free SMS Services, and noticed that, as you’d expect, several of these had disappeared without a trace. That’s not so bad, I just remove the link and move on…
…except there’s something else I could do - check to see if the domain name has expired. In […]

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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

ClixGalore - One Merchant’s Experience

I’m a merchant with ClixGalore, but only at the most basic level, and for me it has proven the old adage - you get what you pay for. My biggest two gripes would be
- the site doesn’t work properly in Firefox
- 95% of the affiliates applying are of the “bad neighbourhood” variety
Over at ABestWeb an […]

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