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This Week in Search for 11/26/09

Sam Niccolls

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

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Sam Niccolls

This Week in Search for 11/26/09

The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

 

 

Five Thumbs

Four Thumbs

  • How Web Analytics Helped the Obama Campaign Win:
    Dan Siroker left Google to become the Director of Analytics for the Obama Campaign. In his hour long presentation he shares some amazing statistics & interesting tactics they used to help Obama win the election.
  • Cuil Theory Poster:
    Licenseplate's tongue and cheek poster captures the essence of Cuil.   
  • 69 Sexy Portfolio Designs:
    The designs are not all conversion focused, but Smashing Magazine's list of 69 portfolio designs has some elegant layouts that'll provide idea inspiration.

Three Thumbs

  • Get Elastic - Increase Average Order Value:
    GoDaddy might be the extreme when it comes to upsells during their checkout process, but if you have an e-commerce site, testing the location of your "continue shopping" button on your checkout pages might lead to increases in average order value.
  • Online Dating Trends:
    How much do looks matter on dating sites? OK Cupid helps answer the question with interesting user behavior data.

Two Thumbs   

  • Page Load Times & AdWords Quality Score:
    Matt Cutts recently talked about how page load times will play an even bigger role in organic search, but ROI Revolution shares a few other reasons to identify and fix long page load times.

Rocking on YOUmoz


Top YOUmoz entries:

  1. Annual Local Demand Using Google Keyword Tool by identity

  2. Best Practices for Setting Up a Twitter Account by danazarrella

  3. SEO Daily Workout by Martini81Vette

  4. Actionable SEO Insights from Google Analytics by kim_toomey 

  5. Google Apps - Getting Efficient at SEO  by The Lost Agency

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Sam Niccolls
Sam Niccolls is an online marketer. He specializes in SEO, SEM, e-mail, and web analytics and currently works at SEOmoz as a traffic and conversion specialist.

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