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If you are using Google Analytics, it is useful to be able to filter out hits that are generated from within your company.  To do this you use the Filter Manager which allows you to enter a range of IP addresses or specific IP addresses.
https://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?answer=55481&hl=en_US&utm_id=ad

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Duplicate content within one website
This is often unintentional and can be the result of sites having pages for similar products where the content has been only slightly changed, or because landing pages have been created for PPC campaigns.
In this case, Google recommends that webmasters include the preferred version of the URL on their sitemap file, [...]

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Here are a few basic points on getting more hits for your site.
* Make sure body text is optimised for keywords.
* Make sure title tags are well written and different for each page and reflect the page content.
* Submit to search engines, although once they have been submitted, the search engines are very good at [...]

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You can learn so much from Google Webmaster Tools, such as:
* Understanding how often GoogleBot visits your Web site.
* Finding errors on your site (404s, etc.).
* Content analysis (which will show you if you have duplicate title tags or meta description tags or content that isn’t indexable).
* Statistics, including top search queries, crawl stats, subscriber [...]

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What currency should you sell your products in ? 
PayPal is able to handle quite a wide range of currencies and you have to descide which currency you should sell your products in. 
I guess the question really is “are you selling to the world or are you expecting payments from customers who are based in your [...]

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Interesting Google watch site : http://googlewatch.eweek.com/index.html
Provides information on Google developments and other Google issues.

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thesitemapper is a Windows based application that runs on your PC, creates an xml site map for search engines and an html site map, both of which can be automatically uploaded to the web server when generated.
In addition, it can test which type of Google analytic code you have on each page.  It creates a [...]

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The following is a list of some of the more interesting WordPrss plugins.
* http://akismet.com/ Akismet – Kills spam comments, dead.
* http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/ Audio player – An easy to embed audio player (possibly for use with podcasts)
* http://semperfiwebdesign.com/portfolio/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/ All in One SEO Pack – All your search engine optimization needs in one package
* http://jamesmckay.net/code/comment-timeout/ Comment Timeout – [...]

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Google is always coming out with some great web site enhancements.  One new tool they are providing for free, for any webmaster out there to use is the NewsShow Wizard.  It allows you to embed your own Google News widget into your web site on any topic you might have in mind.
All you need to [...]

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I have had some problems in the past in linking Google AdWords and Analytics.
There are two steps to ensure that AdWords and Anayltics are linked :
(1) In your AdWords account, go to My Account > Account Preferrences.  Click the ‘edit’ link next to Tracking.  Select the box that says ‘Destination URL Auto-tracking” and click Save [...]

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