1. Econsultancy shares how the Verified by Visa program may be a conversion killer.

2. Dr. Ralph Wilson interviews my good friend Avinash at the eMetrics summit about Useful Key Performance indicators for small business. Ralph also did a few interviews with me. Here is the first one on “The Winning Edge“:

3. Mars Chocolates is being punished for a bad ‘Fling’ – first when people search for the website they end up sending people to a porn site. If that wasn’t bad enough, Marketing to Women guru Michele Miller explains how they missed the mark entirely on this product launch. Make sure to let Michele know what you think of her recently relaunched website Wonder Branding.

4. I am looking forward to presenting at SES Toronto June 8-10th. I’ll also be meeting several OnTarget clients as well as non-clients. Be sure to come say hello to me if you are a GrokDotCom reader and are attending the conference. Ruud Hein from Search Engine People and Sarah Benmaza of NVI interviewed me prior to attending the conference. One of the sessions I’ll be doing is “Tool Time: The Search Marketer’s Free-to-Cheap Goodie Bag.” I’ll be sharing some of my favorite tools from 33 free tools to improve your website and few others not on that list. Do you have any Free-to-cheap tools you use that I should add?

5. Larry Chase who has been publishing his newsletter, Web Digest for Marketers, just slightly longer than Dr. Ralph Wilson’s, Web Marketing Today (I’ve been a faithful subscriber to both of their newsletters for over a decade) interviewed me about the 3 common mistakes in web analytics.

6. My friend Stéphane Hamel shares some web analytics market research and his take on it from his collaboration with Forrester’s John Lovett.

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