Graham Charlton
Graham Charlton is Editor of the Econsultancy blog, covering e-commerce, SEO, and more. He also contributes to our Best Practice Guides and other reports. You can contact him at graham.charlton@econsultancy.com.
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A new report has looked into the performance of the top 28 UK retailers as measured by traffic, and has found much room for improvement.
The research, carried out by Marketing Assistance Ltd on behalf of Blast Radius, looked at the whole online shopping experience, from from first visit to returning unwanted items.
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by Graham Charlton
23 November 2006 11:27am
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Flickr has spotted a new revenue stream via the launch of its camera finder service, which displays the most popular cameras used on the photo sharing site.
Flickr is using the data from photos uploaded to the site to display the most popular makes of cameras and camera phones.
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by Graham Charlton
23 November 2006 14:27pm
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Shawn Collins has published some useful tips for affiliates to maxime their commissions during the Christmas period.
The tips, published on Collins' blog, come from Performics and the e-tailing group.
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by Graham Charlton
23 November 2006 18:14pm
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Google’s shares reached the $500 mark on Tuesday, the highest point since the company went public in April 2004, when he shares were priced at $85.
Stockreply believes the shares will reach the $1,000 mark, and speculates when that mark might be reached...
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by Graham Charlton
23 November 2006 14:32pm
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Webmaster World forums recently hosted a discussion on whether or not a site’s search engine ranking is affected by the length of time a domain name is registered for.
The theory is that registering a domain name for ten years indicates to Google that the domain’s owners’ have made a long term commitment and therefore the site is less likely to be spam.
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by Graham Charlton
21 November 2006 18:25pm
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Musicovery is a new web radio application which allows you to visually customise the genre and style of music you want to listen to, before streaming it through your browser.
Users of the visual search engine MusicPlasma will recognise the design of the site. Essentially, this is MusicPlasma with the added benefit of streaming radio. Founders Frederic Vavrille and Vincent Castaignet are responsible for both sites.
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by Graham Charlton
21 November 2006 18:30pm
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Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, has announced a partnership with RSS platform provider KnowNow to extend its publishing tools to the enterprise market.
Through the deal, the two companies have developed KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition, a blog platform for businesses which will be in direct competition with Six Apart’s Movable Type.
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by Graham Charlton
21 November 2006 12:18pm
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If you've used up your list of catchy headline templates, here are a few more ideas from
Brian Clark at copyblogger.com
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by Graham Charlton
21 November 2006 12:31pm
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Yahoo has signed a deal with US newspaper groups in which they will share online advertising, content and technology.
In return for Yahoo publishing local classified ads on its network of sites, the newspapers will supply local news content. This deal should boost Yahoo’s local reach while providing local papers with national exposure for their classifieds.
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by Graham Charlton
20 November 2006 14:53pm
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AGLOCO is a new startup from the founders of AllAdvantage, a site PC World placed at number five in its list of ’25 worst web sites’.
By all appearances, AGLOCO is essentially AllAdvantage 2.0, as the idea behind it seems to be exactly the same – users are paid to surf the net as long as they subject themselves to watching all manner of advertising.
We didn't care much for that business model first time around, but is AGLOCO a different beast?
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by Graham Charlton
20 November 2006 13:59pm
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