I’ve recently wrote a couple of posts about writing post descriptions, A Blog Description Google Seems to Like and Your Description Sucks. If you read those, you should know by now that a custom description doesn’t always get used by Google. Sometimes Google just doesn’t care for your description, and uses the content it feels is best for the snippet they display.
Well, here is an easy way to make sure Google is using your description, use Google Alerts. Continue reading »
Doing a little digging around on McAfee’s website today, I came across a pretty cool feature they have for website owners. It can also be used by anyone if you simply curious of how safe a website is.
The service is McAfee’s SiteAdvisor. The service basically reports if the site analyzed has any known problems or complaints. It shows how many times a site has been reported for spam, if it has adware, if it has popups, and items of that nature. What I really found interesting though, was it Green Affiliation report. Continue reading »
Sometime prior to the 21st of October I had a little DB problem going on with my popular content tracking. At the beginning of every month though, I like to post what the top content was for the previous month before hitting the reset button. So here is the top content for Oct 21st – Oct. 31. RESET!
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If you wake up early on Saturday the 31st, you may have an opportunity then as well. It all depends on how early I wake up!
Spending a little time checking out YouTube this morning, I came across an interesting link in their footer, YouTube on Your TV. I saw one of the methods supported was through a Wii game console. I have the Wii, so I cranked it up, and checked out my family videos. Neat, and YouTube’s site was ready to roll operating with the Opera Browser for Wii. My site however, is not. Continue reading »
Looking back at a years worth of data for this blog, and comparing it to the previous, I wanted to know what types of marketing worked best. It seems that the best thing that I can do for this site is to simply keep posting new content.
After looking at the stats I saw many sources come and go. A few marketing methods appeared to work, but not at a level I was hoping or expecting. I have three sources of traffic, direct, referring, and search. When looking at Google’s analytics to do the comparison, make sure you don’t just click on Traffic Sources. Click on Traffic Sources, and then click on each source for their stats; Direct, Referring, Search. This will show percentage of growth based for each source. If you were to just click Traffic Sources the percentages are comparisons to total traffic growth, and it may mislead you. Continue reading »
A common occurrence and necessity is to spend more time working on the home page compared to other pages of a website. Many experts will tell you that you can’t forget your other content, and smartly so. Search engines like Google sees each page of your site uniquely, and your contact page could actually bring in more visitors than your home page. This is all often the case, but I wanted to know by how much.
So I did a little study using Google Analytics reports from ten different sites. The sites are completely random in industry, and in type. Continue reading »
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How Not to Brag About Zero Comments
So you just wrote a new post on your WordPress Blog, and it has a whopping zero comments so far. Like bragging about it? I don’t. I also don’t like search engines like Google caching 10 counts of the word comment. If there are no comments, I say, why brag about it. Fortunately, WordPress lets you easily customize this in your templates.
Comment Template Tag
The comment template tag used in your WordPress site appears something like this: comments_popup_link(’0 Comments, ’1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’) Continue reading »