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What Is An Ad Impression?

June 29, 2006

Lots of publishers I have spoken to get a little confused when their ad impressions counts are different to their page impressions. So my goal here is to try and identify the common reasons for the differences. The fact that advertising systems counts ads not pages is the first key difference.

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What Are Page Impressions?

June 15, 2006

For anybody who works with web-based content then the ‘impression’ is a very important metric. It used to be the world talked about ‘hits’ but I think we’ve moved on from that: it being the least descriptive and most open to abuse metric upon which we measure successful web content.

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I Found Some Of Your Life

November 27, 2004

Interesting site with somebody’s photographs.

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It Was A Good Read

December 29, 2003

While I will miss the disappearances, they are – of course, just blips in the workings of the web. What I find sad is that, in time, it is likely that all this content will disappear from servers as the owners stop paying for the space that houses the sites. It would be like burning every copy of a book you had read – vanished. It’s part of a shared history that disappears.

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Small Screens Look Good

March 26, 2003

You know, I am really impressed by the new version of Opera (which has always been a browser I have used).

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Dreams of the Downsized

March 10, 2003

Today I understood how the internet was built up and how it failed to deliver on those dreams for many people. What was sad were the changes that have happened to the online group over the last year. Gone are the product managers, most developers and many of the other staff. They are now much, much smaller than they were.

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Ben Affleck In Tight Leather

March 1, 2003

Looking at the referrer logs for this site, a lot of people are getting here thanks to my mention of Ben Affleck in tight leather. Ben Affleck in tight leather – why are you looking for those pictures?

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Give Us Our Daily Blog

November 3, 2002

As I started redeveloping this site, it became apparent that I wanted to link to my collection of daily blog reads and this became the place to keep them.

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Key

June 20, 2001

Security on the Internet is a big concern for many people. Keeping information that identifies you personally from falling into the wrong hands is important. Check for secure sites when submitting credit card information, be careful about who you give your email to and read privacy policies. This is all worthy advice. If you are [...]

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My Web

April 21, 2001

Much of the information below is now well out of date and many of the site are no longer around. Independent Radio News’ site no longer has any of the original code behind it and Satellite Media Services went out of business a long time ago. See ex-sms.com a little bit more about that company. [...]

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