Heat Map Tracking Tools

The SEOmoz Blog points out two heat map tracking software solutions.
CrazyEgg (I think Rand already talked about it), which is simple, easy to use and cost between 0,33$ - 0,80$ / 1 000 visits. I am not sure how deep the metrics are behind it. Has any of you tried it? It is worth it?
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Google & Meta Description Tag

Does Google use the Meta Description tag? Check out these comments. Some same Meta Description tags are ignored by Google. This Google Groups post by Google’s Vanessa Fox has this comment saying you should use the meta description tag:
Looking at your site in the search results, it appears that your pages would be well served […]

Intellicontact and Other Email Tools

Need to evaluate best-of-breed email marketing tools? For low to mid-range deployments, here are three good contenders to evaluate:

http://www.intellicontact.com
http://www.verticalresponse.com
http://www.constantcontact.com

Industry Adopts Google Sitemap Standard

If you don’t have a Google Sitemap now, with this breaking news, you’ll especially want to set one up:
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to all support a unified system of submitting web pages through feeds to their crawlers. Called Sitemaps, taking its name from the precursor system that Google launched last year, all three […]

SEO Inc.

Search Engine Optimization Inc. is a professional integrated search media agency, specializing in achieving high rankings for their clients in Internet Search Engines. For more than a decade, SEO Inc.’s certified ‘Search Engineers’, with a combined expertise of over 40 years, have developed proprietary optimization and marketing methodologies that are used for 300 leading corporations […]

Four seconds till abandonment

The research by Akamai reveals online users are less patient than ever. If a website takes longer than four seconds to load, users are likely to abandon it. 75% of those users would not return to websites that took more than four seconds to load. Read more
Is your page too ‘heavy’ and need help […]

Increasing Comments Traffic

Want to increase comments on your web site article? Try making the feedback option more prominent. Take a look at how ZDNet formats their comments button (on the left below):

Also note they add this to the top of the article page. See it in action at ZDNet.

Email provider customer churn to soar

Email market churn could reach 32 per cent, meaning that one in three customers could be switching to a new email provider within the next year. Source