How much is a spot on Google’s Official Analytics Blog worth?

So having assumed my little baking stunt was a one-off foray into the world of SEM and blog popularity I was pleasantly surprised this morning to find my cake atop Google’s official analytics blog.

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How to temporarily increase traffic to your website

So your blog is ticking along nicely at 2-3 visitors each day. People don’t stay long.

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Google Analytics Dashboard Cake

This weekend Clarkson and I decided to build a cake based on the Google Analytics dashboard.

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Quantitative Easing Of Mobile Bandwidth (Useless 3G)

I can never get a decent signal on my mobile, well not enough to download email or view webpages quickly.

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Twitter / Google PageRank Absurdity

I have only been tapping out rambling nonsense on Twitter for a matter of weeks and only with any real regularity over the past few days, but already I seem to be appearing fairly prominently in Google. Clever me.

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Omniture ClickMap & Twitter Debacle

I mentioned briefly before that I had failed to get Omnitures ClickMap working but today I had a flash of inspiration and had another go.

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Google Analytics IQ Qualification

Today I was invited to take the newly introduced GA IQ test and passed with a fairly reasonable 85% (You need 75% to be assured of the award).

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Status Reports are like Nuclear Weapons

Status reports are a necessary evil these days. I accept this and produce them as thorougly, concisely and candidly as I can. This does not mean of course that I like this task. It may well be one of the worst of the week.

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Omniture Site Catalyst

Had my first real go creating Omniture reports and graph shaped things today. It gave me an interesting perspective given the free Google alternative that I have far more experience with.

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Faces of…

At work, in their attempts to build communities between otherwise very separate business units, they send out “Faces of…” emails.

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So Wrong, Its Right with Charlie Brooker

Last night I went to see a recording of a new radio 4 panel show pilot. These are generally always good and seeing them live and in their entirity is even better.

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Unnecessary Obsession with Word?

I have been working as project manager to help build a website for a local school. There have been various difficulties, not least the obsession by some to send any if not all content in word documents.

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Adobe Acrobatics

What is this obsession with PDF? Read by the idiot masses, created by the mysterious few, available to download all over the place.

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