Newsgator Online, the company’s web-based feed reader and until now a relatively weak product, rolled out a feature today that makes the service worth another look.

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SurfCanyon is a Firefox plug-in that claims mind reading capabilities. Even though there’s no actual magic involved, this nifty little app does a great job of digging though the search results for the hits you need, even though Google buried them on page 12.

SurfCanyon accelerates the search process by re-ranking the search results based on your behaviour. This way, the browser extension applies a layer of real-time implicit personalization. The software is transforming static lists of links into dynamic search results pages that work with the you as you explore the search results.

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Learning to implement “nofollow� tags is fairly easy. Learning how to apply them in the proper way does require some skill. This post was created in order to educate the average webmaster, or website owner, on what “nofollow� tags can do for your site.

The use of “nofollow� tags can serve many different purposes. They can be used to limit the amount of link juice that flows out of a page to external pages of different domains, or they can be used to control where the link juice will flow to within a site and its internal pages.

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Google Analytics is today reporting a data processing error from April 30th to May 5th. In addition they have lost a small percentage of data in the area of e-commerce reporting that is not recoverable.

As a company we have several clients on performance related contracts using Google Analytics e-commerce data so this is a worrying error.

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