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Google Analytics iPhone App - View Traffic Reports on the Go

Google Analytics is probably the most essential tool for anyone running a webservice, blog, or other online property that wants to grow traffic and understand existing traffic.

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Recover Corrupted Excel Spreadhsheet Files Using Only Excel for Free

My mom sent me an .xls file this evening that she had spent hundreds of hours working on and managed corrupt within a matter of minutes. After a quick Google search I found lots of pay for programs to recover the file, but nothing quick and free.

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Receive Twitter @ replies via SMS, email, & IM for FREE

I’ll admit it, I’m addicted to Twitter. The only thing that I have found that I don’t like about Twitter is the inability to receive updates, either via email or SMS, for all of your @replies; I fix things I don’t like.

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Beginner's Guide to SEO

A friend of mine who runs a small business asked me to do SEO for her website the other day. I used a combination of different on page tricks and external services to get her site’s SEO up to speed:

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Gmail URL Shortener

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How to Track Multiple Topics, Brands, and People on Twitter

Tracking conversations about people, brands, ideas, topics, or any area of interest really, is a new part of my daily routine now that I can track all of these things in real time with using Twitter.

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How To Ad Arbitrage with Amazon Affiliates & Google Adwords or Facebook Ads

I posted about this over on my personal blog, but I told Jenny about this and she thought the hackaddict crowd would dig this:

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Track Craigslist Page Views

I saw this article a while back (thanks to lifehacker) which explained how to track page views on Craigslist. I loved the idea but did not love the implementation: it required hosting your own image and using either a third party web application (but did not describe the process) or using a shell script to list the number of times the server loaded the image. Today I am going to explain a much easier way to track your Craigslist page views which does not involve hosting your image or using complicated scripts (my mom could use this method).<ol>

  • Create a regular Craigslist ad making sure you include at least one image
  • Publish your Craigslist ad and go to the link Craigslist provides to "View your ad"
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    Get your zombie guns, cause we're back from the dead!

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    Custom Themes on Google Presentations

    I wanted to insert a logo at the top of every slide in a presentation I was working on today. It was obvious how to do this in Google Presntations, so I did a quick search and found this great tip:

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