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Small biz owners ignoring security

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Thursday July 31, 2008 )

A recent survey by McAffee found that many small business owners felt their operations were too small to worry about cybercrime, yet a third of small and medium businesses in Northern America have been the target of cybercrims repeatedly over the past three years.
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India’s online population growth

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Saturday July 26, 2008 )

Recent figures from ComScore show that more than 28 million people in the country went online during May - a 27 percent increase over just a year ago.
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PPC fraud statistics

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Thursday July 24, 2008 )

The click fraud rate was 16.2 percent for Q2 2008, down a smidgen from the first quarter of this year, but still higher than the same period last year.
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Lulu now in Australia!

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Tuesday July 22, 2008 )

If you’re based in Australia, Southeast Asia or New Zealand and have considered self publishing, no doubt the cost made your head spin.
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Favorites icons

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Saturday July 19, 2008 )

The importance of having a favorites icon for my sites was again driven home to me recently when setting up a new notebook.
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Aiming for single word rankings

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Friday July 18, 2008 )

If you’re selling cars, you’d love to score the no.1 ranking on the term “cars”, right? Would you ignore all your other SEO efforts if you thought you had a good chance of scoring it? It mightn’t be a good idea
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25% now accessing the Internet

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Wednesday July 16, 2008 )

It only seems like yesterday that most folks were saying “Interwho?”. This year, 25% of the world’s population will access the web.
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Anchor text, tokens and SEO

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Monday July 14, 2008 )

A patent granted to Yahoo last week relating to anchor text gives some further insight as to how this element may be used by the major engines in ranking.
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Skype “call me” links

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Saturday July 12, 2008 )

Given how long this feature has been available for I’m likely the last person on the planet to have seen it; but in case I’m not and you’re a Skype user, here’s how to create links for your pages and emails which will put a call through to your Skype ID.
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The mighty digital pen

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Wednesday July 9, 2008 )

Large companies are now employing people specifically to watch for complaints that appear on blogs and social networks. They are learning that a single disgruntled consumer has enough power to do a great deal of damage to their brand.
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