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What can I say?

Yesterday Google Analytics was slow off the mark in producing the previous day's results and the blogging moment passed.

The results are really unexceptional at the moment - a bit down on pre update levels but no obvious key word issues - just continuing turmoil. But it looks as if that is par for the course when you look at the chart for the most stable keyword on Rankpulse which happens to be 'texas' there is still a very active scene for places 4-10 while 1-3 sail above it all.

Our recent Paypal incident bares a little comment.

They changed their terms and conditions after they were taken over and required Merchants to sign up to the new terms. But when we tried to comply it didn't work so we wrote it off as another scam and left it at that. Next thing we hear is from a customer whose payment is turned down. Fixed the problem pretty quickly on the Paypal site although the relevant link was not very prominent or supported by any additional text. Still don't know how long our Paypal account was off the air or how much other business we lost.

Part of the problem is that there have been so many phishing attempts with Paypal that you look twice at any communication from them. Otherwise their service works well and we are not looking for an alternative.

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