Google Analytics is a great free tool for monitoring your web traffic.  Most every webmaster would probably agree that it's important to have some kind of statistical tracking on your website, but few that I know actually *use* the data for anything useful. 

So here are a couple ideas to get you thinking how Google Analytics can help you improve your site's search rankings:More...

To get myself in the habit of posting more, I'm going to try to do a little Friday humor every week.  Today we have some hilarious stuff from the Ruby on Rails community.  Credit goes to Alex Rudloff for the original link that got me off on this tangent.

Commercial #1: Ruby on Rails vs. .NET

I'm a HUGE fan of jQuery.  In fact in my latest project, I've removed the ScriptManager from my ASP.NET pages entirely.  Originally I was including both jQuery and the ScriptManager on my pages because I just couldn't live without the ease and simplicity of calling page methods with ASP.NET AJAX. 

Well, with a little help from Dave Ward and Rick Strahl, I realized that calling ASP.NET page methods (and web services) from jQuery is really pretty simple. More...

John Reese, a very established Internet marketer, just released part 3 of his Traffic Secrets 2.0 pre-release videos.  The purpose of these videos is to build hype for his new traffic building e-course.  Personally, I rarely spend money on those kinds of Internet marketing products, but that's not the point of my post. 

All three videos are light on specifics, but they do explain some of the general tactics that his course is based on.  If your current marketing techniques are starting to not work as well as they used to, take a look at these videos as I think they do a nice job of summarizing what I believe are the most current techniques that are still working to promote sites and improve search rankings. More...

So you've finally finished your next masterpiece of a website.  Everything is tested and working great.  The user interface is immaculate and the design is truly something to behold.  Time to push it live and start rolling in the money, right?  Well, there is one more user demographic that you still need to satisfy - the search engines!  Unless, of course, you don't *need* any of that free targeted search traffic??

One of the strengths of ASP.NET development with Visual Studio is the relative ease in which you can create a functional dynamic site.  At the same time, one of it's weaknesses is the relative ease in which you can create a functional dynamic site that is confusing, if not completely unusable, by a search engine robot.

Here's a checklist of five common mistakes that ASP.NET and the Viewstate/Postback model of development make it far too easy for unsuspecting developers to make: More...

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