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<title>Exit popups harm your reputation</title>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to understand why some business owners still think that implementing &#8220;exit popups&#8221; on their website actually benefit their readers in some way.

Think of it this way:
A customer enters your shop and has a look around.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/exit-popups-harm-your-reputation/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/exit-popups-harm-your-reputation/</link>
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<title>Industry jargon and real people</title>
<description><![CDATA[Our customers are largely technologically unsophisticated as this video shows:





Less that 8% of users who were interviewed on this occasion knew what a browser was.
As website designers and builders, it&#8217;s worth remembering this when we talk to normal people who often have no idea what our industry jargon means.
&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/industry-jargon-and-real-people/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/industry-jargon-and-real-people/</link>
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<title>How to drive business away</title>
<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, I asked a good friend of mine about how he thought his business website was working for him in the couple of years since he had it built.
&#8220;As useless as tits on a bull&#8221;, he replied.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/how-to-drive-business-away/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/how-to-drive-business-away/</link>
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<title>Your trendy search boxes are not useful</title>
<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s disappointing to see an increase of these new &#8220;trendy&#8221; search boxes on websites.
You know, search boxes which don&#8217;t have a submit button at all, leaving the customer to work out for themselves that they actually need to press the &#8220;enter&#8221; key to make the bloody things work.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/your-trendy-search-boxes-are-not-useful/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/your-trendy-search-boxes-are-not-useful/</link>
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<title>No advertising</title>
<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years, I&#8217;ve been getting a steady stream of proposals from various &#8220;entrepreneurs&#8221; who want to advertise their stuff on this website.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/no-advertising/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/no-advertising/</link>
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<title>The worst password choices</title>
<description><![CDATA[The folks over at Imperva have recently conducted a detailed analysis of a truckload of weak and compromised passwords.
The report found the following to be the most popular choices:

123456
12345
123456789
password
iloveyou
princess
rockyou
1234567
12345678
abc123
nicole
daniel
babygirl
monkey
jessica
lovely
michael
ashley
654321
qwerty

The most interesting thing is just how little things have changed in the last twenty years.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/the-worst-password-choices/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/the-worst-password-choices/</link>
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<title>Amazon still fails for Australians</title>
<description><![CDATA[Amazon has spent a good number of years building their brand. They apparently pride themselves on providing great service, and apart from some idiotic policy decisions, they probably haven&#8217;t lost too many customers.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/amazon-still-fails-for-australians/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/amazon-still-fails-for-australians/</link>
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<title>Blogging without comments</title>
<description><![CDATA[Is a blog without comments still a blog?
I guess it depends on who you ask. While most blogs have comments enabled, there are some very prominent bloggers who don&#8217;t offer this feature to their readers.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/blogging-without-comments/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/blogging-without-comments/</link>
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<title>Honeypot spam statistics</title>
<description><![CDATA[Around ten months ago, I talked about the effectiveness of the project honeypot blacklisting system on this website.
Recently, they reached the very significant milestone of receiving their 1 billionth spam message.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/honeypot-spam-statistics/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
<link>http://lutrov.com/blog/honeypot-spam-statistics/</link>
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<title>Why notebooks are so cheap</title>
<description><![CDATA[Now I know why brand new laptop computers have become so cheap over the last couple of years.
And it&#8217;s not due to any technological advancements. It&#8217;s due to huge amount of software crapware which the major hardware vendors, and their partners, bundle on the machines before they ship them out.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://lutrov.com/blog/why-notebooks-are-so-cheap/" title="Read the rest of this entry" class="more">More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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