Needle in a Haystack? There are millions of websites and billions of words of information on the Internet. You would think that finding anything would be like looking for a needle in a proverbial haystack. Fortunately some of the savviest...

To the surprise of many, a Google PageRank update occurred late September, a month earlier than expected. I saw the page rank of many of my blog posts move up, and I also saw the page rank of a friend's site move down. A Google PageRank update hadn't...

When I set up my Online Social Networking blog in November 2007, I had essentially neither blogging nor search engine optimization experience. I did have excellent reasons for starting a blog, and I was very determined to succeed. I was ready to...

Coping with Recent Ning Site Changes The Online Social Networking world will never stand still. You can count on that. Social networking sites and the culture surrounding them will always be in a state of flux. When I wrote Ning Social Networking...

Defining Bounce Rate Web metrics help bloggers and other website owners to analyze and track their site visitors. One of the most popular web metrics is bounce rate. Bounce rate is the percentage of visitors viewing only a single page before leaving...