Not getting your mail? 99 times out of a hundred the problem is that your email box is filled up. Your email services has an excellent spam removal function and a virus program built into it. The spam removal software takes what it deems to be spam and places it into a spam directory that will fill up and cause your email to become stuffed to the point that no more email can fit into it.

Now that you have a site on the Internet, you want to see some positive results, right? And those results are based on one or more of the three following factors. One: they were directed to your site using keywords on a search engine (SEM). Two: They were directed to your site after reading about it in a blog or news item (SEO). Three: They saw your site URL on a business card or advertisement of somekind. You have some direct control over "Three," but what have you done to see that One and Two are working for you?!

One of the most asked questions I get are about email accounts. Your DFI account supports two kinds of email protocol, IMAP and POP3.  Whichever you select is completely up to you and the software you use to access your email. Most people use either MS Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. Personally, I use Thunderbird as I find MS Outlook cumbersome to use. However, many find MS Outlook because of its calendar and other related functions. In either case, you still have the ability to choose whither to use the IMAP or POP3 protocols.

Looking at my Google Analytics Overview gives me a sense of power on the one hand as I can see where my readers are coming from, the key words that they are using and other statistics. On the other hand, I must admit that all those figures jumping out at me are sometimes overwhelming.

Lauren McKay gives in her Mar 30, 2010 blog four tips that Avinash Kaushik has for making the metrics of your site matter. They are:

1. Visualize and Interpret
2. Focus on outcomes
3. Think "long tail"
4. Make 'intelligent" attributions

One particular items that stands out in Lauren's report was the Avinash quote, "Ultimately, you should be asking, 'What's my Web site for?" Something that we should probably be asking ourself everytime we take a look at it.