Firefox 3 Smart Keywords

Mozilla released FF3 a couple of days ago with it’s “Firefox 3 Download Day” campaign and it’s already made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the most software downloads in a day.

There are many new features worth mentioning including, improved performance (vroom!) and more sophisticated security and privacy controls. However, there’s only one feature that I wanted to write about in this post since it may impact search behavior and search engine optimization (SEO).

The Zen of CMS and Business Blogging

I’m really excited to see the Boston Celtics take on the LA Lakers this year for the NBA finals. I can still remember watching the crowd rush the court of the old Garden (correctly pronounced, “Gahden”) in 1984 when I was in third grade. Event though, this post has nothing to do with sports, I just had to mention what a great first game it was last night.

So I recently came across an article regarding a neat way of evaluating Web content management systems (CMS). Using a two pronged approach, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services assembled a group of evaluators from those who would actually be using the the CMS and had them judge the multiple CMS offerings based on technical capabilities and usability or ease-of-use. They used a simple scoring system based on the two criterion and selected the one with the highest score. Pretty simple, right? Read on grasshopper..

Segment Traffic with Web Analytics

Have you ever been asked to report on pageviews to a particular page of your site (or your entire site) and realized that without context or benchmarking the number seemed hollow? I can recall numerous times I’ve presented Web stats like this and no one but I have asked, so what?

There are many ways to translate your Web stats into actionable items. While putting together a Web metrics dashboard last week, I figure I would include this quick and easy way to turn your web analytics reporting data into items you can follow-up on.