http://www.podcast.de/episode/608620/funkyflo__since_98

Original post by FunkyFlo - MySpace Blog and software by Elliott Back

Andy Beal, reputation management expert and avid blogger has put together what seems to be a great reputation monitoring tool called Trackur. It attempts to scour the web and find any and all mentions of the keyphrase you enter.
Other tools in this niche are some what far and few between. However there are a few tools already in existence, such as:
http://www.brandseye.com/
http://reputation.distilled.co.uk/
http://reputationdefender.com
http://www.sentimentmetrics.com
http://www.radian6.com
http://www.reputrace.com
There are several pricing models and options offered by Trackur:

Trackur Standard
1 saved search
Email and RSS reports
Updates every 12 hours
$18/month

Trackur Pro
5 saved searches
Email and RSS reports
Updates/ 6 Hours
88$/month

Trackur Enterprise
15 saved searches
Email and RSS reports
Updates/ 1 Hour
188$/month

Is Trackur.com worth it?
It is hard to tell off the bat how thorough of a job the tools does at finding every single mention for a specific phrase. However, at first glance it seems to do a solid job. It scours technorati, blogs, flickr, the interweb and apparently video’s (guessing via the tagging [...]

Original post by Brian Chappell and software by Elliott Back

Drupal in my opinion is the most search engine friendly, out of the box, solution in existence today. However, with that said, there are still some things that need to be done to any installation to ensure search engine success, and save you from issues down the road.
Note: Keep in mind many of the tactics listed below are things that should be done from the get go. If you plan on implementing these tactics with a site that is already fully built, indexed and aged, then you are going to want to take different steps to ensure SERP disaster doesn’t ensue.

First thing is first, turn on clean URLs (which is the same thing as entering /%postname%/ in the permalink structure section in Wordpress) Navigate to Home > Administration > Site Configuration > Clean URL’s. You need to make sure your server accepts mod_rewrite or this is not going to [...]

Original post by Brian Chappell and software by Elliott Back

funkflo launched a new website for all the music he wants to do concerning techno.

>>> http://www.djfunkyflo.com

Web Analytics is an ever evolving field with many big name players, and plenty of smaller competitors. Deciding what analytics package is the right fit for your site can be a tough process to go through.

Prices range from free (Google analytics) all the way in the tens of thousands of dollars per year (Omniture, Coremetrics, Webtrends). I have compiled a list of some of the top Ecommerce sites in the industry and noted what each site is using below. Hopefully this will help you gauge which product you might want to choose for your site.

Apparel / Fashion

eBags.com - Google Analytics
Landsend.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst
Lids.com - WebTrends
Bluefly.com - Coremetrics
LLBean.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst

Electronics

BestBuy.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst
TigerDirect.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst
Crutchfield.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst

Food

SurLaTable.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst
Cooking.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst
Berries.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst

Jewelry

BlueNile.com - Google Analytics
Ice.com - Google Analytics
Diamond.com - Google Analytics

Children / Toys

OneStepAhead.com - Coremetrics
KBToys.com - Omniture SiteCatalyst
BabyAge.com - Google Analytics [...]

Original post by Brian Chappell and software by Elliott Back