tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284906912008-08-25T12:01:56.669-04:00Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-12397383656341518232008-08-24T12:41:00.006-04:002008-08-25T12:01:56.682-04:00

Ever do some "Echo Surfing" (search your own name in Google or another search engine) only to find another person with the exact name. While finding a Google Twin may more common for some than others, what happens if that other you represents something you're not and has the potential to damage your reputation. What if a potential employer or client Googles your name and finds them instead and

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-90874460362887354842008-08-12T16:45:00.008-04:002008-08-14T04:44:27.717-04:00

It's hard to believe that it was 10 years today that the first live broadcasted (webcasted) wedding on the web took place. This wedding was truly original not just by being the first wedding to use Internet technology (others relied on e-mail or the once might IRC), but it was the first to stream a live video and audio stream to a world-wide audience. The wedding was streamed live, but it also

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-10384650241706090622008-07-30T11:30:00.004-04:002008-07-30T12:09:23.944-04:00

Earlier this week a new search engine was announced to a certain degree of fanfare and pride. The new search engine Cuil (pronouced "cool") is an interesting search engine at best. Enough articles and reviews have already been published discussing the developers backgrounds and their former relationship with the likes of Google, so I won't go there. What I will focus on is the quality and

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-3109824970530694522008-07-29T11:00:00.002-04:002008-07-29T11:13:00.506-04:00

Once again I'm happy to announce that the best all round web development conference I've ever attended is happening again. This years Web Builder 2.0 conference will take place October 13-15 in Las Vegas Nevada at the Mirage Resort and Casino. As with all previous Web Builder conference (except the inaugural on back 1997) I will be a presenter. I will also keep my streak alive of attending every

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-79130184115436909152008-07-29T10:49:00.002-04:002008-07-29T10:53:18.897-04:00

Said news from last week is that SEM Canada scheduled for September 4th and 5th had to be canceled. I really was looking forward to this conference as the slate of speakers was outstanding. Granted having a conference the day after Labour Day when many heads turn back to work or getting the kids off on their first day back at school may have not been the wisest, but to the idea was sound. So

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-77429489274384185302008-07-03T12:47:00.006-04:002008-07-03T14:21:24.024-04:00

To many of us who been in the Internet business since the mid 90's we remember all the issues about dial-up connections and slow speed. We knew how to design nice looking sites with small page size. Over the past few years with the expansion of broadband access many have forgotten about the dial-up user. Well here is an interesting article about how many current dial-up users are sticking with

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-9958447526448144002008-07-01T11:48:00.005-04:002008-07-01T12:34:39.759-04:00

Following the issues in my previous post, the upgrade completed successfully. The only minor complaint were the status screens. While there has been a major improvement in terms of providing accurate time estimates, one has to remember that these are estimates and not to put too much faith in them. At least this time round, WebTrends provides a screen per module so can monitor the progress.

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-89803363528299681742008-07-01T10:54:00.003-04:002008-07-01T11:01:02.599-04:00

Still in the process of upgrading and ran into another minor issue. In this instance, the upgrade had problems stopping the WebTrends Scheduler service. After 40 minutes I called tech support to report the problem. Here is the solution in case you run into the same problem. Step 1. Open your Task Manager 2. Click on the Process Tab and sort the list by Image Name 3. Stop the process WTxd.exd

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-54558807011096938422008-07-01T10:02:00.006-04:002008-07-01T10:20:09.538-04:00

I'm in the midst of upgrading my WebTrends test server from verison 8.1a to 8.5 and came across two issues. So I thought I would post these on the fly just in case anyone is planning on installing the upgrade today. 1. License Key - version 8.5 would not accept my current 8.1 license key. The reason for this is unclear as I was the first person to call into WebTrends tech support on any 8.5

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-33349909439305618512008-06-30T21:23:00.002-04:002008-06-30T21:31:23.064-04:00

WebTrends 8.5 was just released today (June 30th). I'm in the process of downloading it and will report back my findings and recommendations about upgrading shortly. Here's hoping issues with Geotrends have been resolved and that the new database for the backend is more stable and flexible than the previous MySQL. If you're feeling adventurous you can download and try it for yourself at ftp://

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-72298934911970603712008-06-23T11:08:00.004-04:002008-06-23T11:14:35.099-04:00

Here is the heads up on the next conference I'm scheduled to speak at. I really got excited about this conference after meeting the organizer Laura Callow last week at SES Toronto. She is a warm and friendly person, who is giving this conference a truly personal touch. As well several many of the speakers at SEM Canada were in attendance here in Toronto. We share the excitement of another search

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-37930007495582523202008-06-22T17:08:00.009-04:002008-06-30T13:22:08.929-04:00

Well another SES Toronto has come and gone. This annual Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in Toronto is the one annual conference here in Toronto that I look forward to each year. As mentioned previously, I spoke at this year's conference (4th year in a row) on the topic of Keyword Research along with Christine Churchill and Michelle Pruitt (from Microsoft) and Louis-Dominic Parizeau. Our

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-39063788914515643682008-05-21T15:22:00.003-04:002008-05-21T15:38:35.463-04:00

Here is a link to an interesting article about the issues of measuring traffic from mobile devices and the short comings of the traditional web analytics products http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3629590 Of course, this article can't capture everything, but it missed one big point and the one I've been standing up for years on. While the article talks about the short comings of

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-20517378591659793332008-05-09T10:44:00.003-04:002008-05-09T10:52:48.025-04:00

Search Engines Strategies Toronto is back for its 5th year here in Toronto. This year's event will take place June 16 -18th. For the fourth year in a row, I'll be speaking at this year's event (June 18th at 12:45). My topic for this year's conference address is "Keyword Research". This is the same topic as last year's address, but I promise to update my slides and give out some new information.

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-59619117257257029592008-03-30T14:15:00.002-04:002008-03-30T14:27:04.514-04:00

During a routine call to WebTrends technical support a couple of weeks ago, I was asked an interesting questions by them. The question was "Which download of WebTrends 8.1a was I using?". This question took me a second to digest. I dug a little deeper to only discover that some time in the middle of January of this year, they posted a revised version of WebTrends 8.1 on their FTP site. This

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-38716741240773954552008-03-21T17:13:00.003-04:002008-03-21T17:21:00.832-04:00

I'm happy to announce that my firm K'nechtology Inc. has just been engaged to by Shred-it UK a firm specializing in secure mobile paper shredding and confidential waste destruction to help develop and implement a UK focused link building strategy. K'nechtology has worked for years with the Shred-it UK's parent company Securit (www.securit.com) implementing various SEO and SEM strategies

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-16525678164012253052008-03-21T17:05:00.003-04:002008-03-21T17:12:27.340-04:00

The dates for PubCon (http://www.pubcon.com) 2008 have just been announced. This years PubCon is happening November 11-14 and once again will be held in Las Vegas. While the speakers list and agenda haven't been finalized, it looks highly likely that I'll be speaking during at least one session at the conference. If this year's conference is anything like last years conference it promises to be

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-21912954172256914562008-03-21T15:53:00.003-04:002008-03-21T16:03:24.647-04:00

I know its been a while since I posted, and now I have a backlog of news items. So here is the first one. A new Search Engine Marketing conference has been announced. The conference entitled SEM Canada (http://www.semcanada.org/) will take place in Calgary Alberta on September 4 and 5. At a cost of $895 Canadian for a two day event, this conference has a very attractive price tag. The

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-82578339854568423872008-01-28T09:02:00.000-05:002008-01-28T09:09:44.633-05:00

An interesting article in today's issue of USA Today Money section (unfortunately not on-line article to link to). It's a story about the rise, fall and future of Yahoo. I won't go into details of the article, but the article itself contained the following information: Search Engine Market Share for December in the USA 1. Google 4 Billion searches Market Share 56% 2. Yahoo 1.27 Billion searches

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-52391566327082356132007-12-31T17:43:00.000-05:002007-12-31T18:03:40.281-05:00

So what do the Blue Man, Las Vegas and Search Engine Optimization have in common? Yes, the Blue Man is a fun pack 2 hours entertainment event at the Blue Man Theatre at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. Yes, Las Vegas recently was home to PubCon's Search Engine Marketing conference. But the fact that both have Las Vegas in common doesn't make Blue Man = SEO. What they have in common is the

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-59377129311867356722007-12-23T12:30:00.000-05:002007-12-23T13:08:39.317-05:00

People are always looking for what the next big thing on the web is going to be. Almost a year ago I wrote about Facebook. Back then it was still redistricted to people at educational institutions. Well it opened up to the rest of us and as the say "the rest is history". So what is the next big thing? While I won't put any money it, give Spock a look (www.spock.com). This site is the ultimate

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-42497974633575057382007-12-23T12:19:00.000-05:002007-12-23T13:06:07.888-05:00

It's hard to believe that it's been 2 weeks since the wrap-up party from PubCon. I know I promised to keep you posted on events and news from both Web Builder 2.0 and PubCon, but work and life sometimes gets in the way of the best plans. To summaries both events, both were great in different ways. Web Builder 2.0 as predicated brought to together developers, web project managers, usability

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-36283835644927008612007-12-05T19:13:00.001-05:002007-12-05T19:19:31.145-05:00

This years Web Builder 2.0 was well organized and had a great speakers. Unfortunately attendance was down a bit from last year and the rooms could have easily help 3 times the number of attendees. One thing that became clear while attending several of keynotes and sessions is that world of Web 2.0 is maturing. There wasn't much new to say, just a few adjustments and adjusted forecast. One

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-82576236910653041592007-12-05T19:07:00.002-05:002007-12-05T19:12:44.828-05:00

It's Wednesday and I'm half way through my 1 week in Las Vegas with 2 conference addresses at two different conferences. This morning I wrapped up my second address with Presentation at Pub Con. It was a great presentation on "A Top Down Approach to SEO". I was part of a 4 person panel which included : Mark Jackson, Lyndsay Walker and Paul Bruemmer. The presentation contained lots of great

Alan K'nechthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13622088835044804208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28490691.post-81834108491777283572007-12-03T01:01:00.000-05:002007-12-03T01:12:56.111-05:00

Another year has gone by and its time for Web Builder. As usual there are lots of speakers and lots of interesting topics being covered. While nothing has made me jump with excitement and highlight a specific session, I'm sure there is going to be lots of great information being exchanged. My presentation on Web Analytics is now all ready to go and is rock solid with just a touch of humour and

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