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BigDaddy - the facts

A bit belatedly I went to the source on this topic and if you are interested I'd recommend http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy/ . I can only find one of the BigDaddy locations on MacDar but I suppose that is sufficient.

Quite a big Mozart response this weekend with searchers going much deeper into the search results than usual and finding us.

Another customer has had problems locating his downloaded file so I think I'll extend the advice to cover the problems some people experience with IE/XP default settings which can hide downloads away in hidden folders. Yet another good reason to go with Firefox which has explicit controls built in.

Gradually getting to grips with Analytics and starting to use the trend analysis settings as data accumulates. I still miss some of the Hitslink detail but not the expenditure.

Going to try and tackle the big bounce problems on our iTunes page today because it is clearly consistent and very different to the equivalent iPod page.

I've also been prompted to register on del.icio.us and MyWeb2 the Yahoo equivalent. If you go to our home page and like what we are doing please bookmark us in one of those sites or both. They look like nice democratic web solutions - worthy of our support.

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