http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/ Venting, musing and hopefully some useful web marketing info. en-us 2009-09-11T09:28:48-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/09/tools_and_googl.html Just a quick note for those how may be using some of the tools available here. Namely those using the All In Title or Common Link tools and trying to query Google via the old SOAP API. Yes I am... Just Chatter Randy 2009-09-11T09:28:48-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/08/google_rank_ext_2.html Just a quick note to notify I have released the Ajax version of Google Rank Extractor. With the new release there have been several changes and improvements, all of which are documented in History section the README file. And I've... Web Analytics Randy 2009-08-15T09:37:38-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/08/new_google_prev.html For those who don't actively track this stuff, Google is apparently getting set to release some major revamps of their code. Something they're calling Caffeine. You can see the preview at http://www2.sandbox.google.com/. You can also of course use this preview... Search Engine Marketing Randy 2009-08-12T08:15:53-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/07/google_rank_ext_1.html UPDATES: August 15, 2009 - GRE is now Ajaxified! Download links have been updated, documentation has been updated and there is now a dedicated page for the project that is located here. The Google Rank Extractor, or GRE, is now... Search Engine Marketing Randy 2009-07-15T08:40:17-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/07/google_rank_ext.html UPDATES: July 15, 2009 - I've released the first public beta version. The announcement post is here and the download zip file has been updated. August 15, 2009 - The GRE tool has been re-coded to be an Ajax application,... Search Engine Marketing Randy 2009-07-08T04:18:49-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/04/creating_water.html This is a short Photoshop tutorial of one method to create water drops on a glass containing cooler liquid, mimicking a glass sweating. There are several ways to attain this effect. A friend saw an image I'd done the... Just Chatter Randy 2009-04-25T07:41:17-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/03/google_chrome_e.html For those who hadn't yet noticed, the Chrome team over at Google recently started to allow the use of Extensions for their browser. I caught wind of it while reading recent blog entry over at Matt Cutts' blog. Or if... Just Chatter Randy 2009-03-24T06:42:23-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/01/bailout_or_stim.html So here in the US there's this huge debate about what the Fed's are talking about doing to infuse a ton of money in hopes of spurring an economic recovery. That's all well and good as far as I'm concerned,... Just Chatter Randy 2009-01-29T13:56:03-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2009/01/analytics_and_t.html Today we're going to take a look at how businesses can make use of social media services like Twitter to support their marketing efforts. Concentrating on the main pitfall these businesses run into when utlizing such marketing methods, that being... Web Analytics Randy 2009-01-27T12:44:52-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2008/12/using_economic.html The second interesting thing I mentioned in my last post has to do with how it can be advantageous to recognize and mention the current state of the economy as part of your sales pitch. Let me first be clear... Business on the Web Randy 2008-12-30T06:46:30-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2008/12/jus_testin.html A couple of really interesting things that has come out of my recent kick of helping some friends with their sites. The first was a question someone raised, quite innocently. It was such a simple question too. The question was:... Business on the Web Randy 2008-12-29T21:19:33-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2008/12/hes_baaaaaaack.html Yeah, yeah... I know I've been neglecting my personal blog for a couple of months. Again. Sorry, but I was incredibly busy with several projects. Busy with my own e-comm sites, of course --you know ... the ones that pay... Just Chatter Randy 2008-12-29T20:55:00-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2008/10/google_analytic.html A general question came up the other day regarding Google Analytics and how it tracks things, so I figured it was about time I posted the info I have on the cookies GoAn sets on the users computer, what the... Web Analytics Randy 2008-10-03T08:03:44-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2008/09/common_links_up.html As you may have noticed, the Common Links tool was been down for maintenance the last few days. Thankfully Ed sent me a note last weekend to let me know it was returning gobbly-gook, so I took it offline to... Search Engine Marketing Randy 2008-09-04T08:55:41-06:00 http://www.randycullom.com/chatterbox/archives/2008/07/x64_and_acrobat.html Just a quick little addition I've been meaning to get posted for the better part of a month now. This harks back to the Getting Windows XP x64 to work post of a few months ago. One particularly maddening thing... Just Chatter Randy 2008-07-31T13:34:46-06:00