Archive for August, 2008

How To Track Wordpress Signups and Comments With Google Analytics

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines, Website Marketing

Monday
Aug 25,2008

I’m sure you have heard of Google Analytics which enables you to track the behaviour of a site. The key to success with Analytics is using website goals. This allows you to conveniently measure the success of your website to criteria you dictate. For a blog (for me), 2 goals would be a user registration - and a user posting a comment on a page or post. For this, we need to ensure tracking is on all appropriate pages and that the goals are correctly configured.

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Essential Feedburner Services

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: Search Engine Optimisation, Website Marketing

Saturday
Aug 23,2008

photo credit: Anzman Consulting

Feedburner is an absolute must when it comes to Internet Marketing (with wordpress). To use it properley or rather, to make the most of using feedburner - you must enable certain services on your feed. The below explains…

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RSS Feedburner Now Available

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: Announcements, Community Portal

Wednesday
Aug 20,2008

Quick post and update…

Feedburner is now available on this blog. Simply click the RSS man to the top right and you can subscribe to our feed through your favorite reader. Additionally, you can choose to receive email updates on this blog by choosing the “receive email updates” button on the rss feed itself which will send direct posts to your email address so you can read at your will.

Oh! And regarding the subscription counter - I couldn’t care less if it is low - I just installed it.

Update: Coming Soon: Essential Feedburner Services

Give it a try

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Edit Any Webpage - Javascript Browser Hack

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: Website Development, Website Management, Website Marketing

Sunday
Aug 17,2008

I’m sure you have all seen screenshots where adsense earnings have topped $1,000,000 or seen some other form of “earnings” where these earnings” are just out of this world. Most of these are probably altered in one way or another - they did this by using the javascript browser hack.

By putting a simple line of javascript into the URL bar once you are on a page of your choice you can edit the content in any way you wish - in designer mode. Now you can fake your “earnings”.

javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0

Try it yourself

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Use Nofollow with Robots.

Author: DooBDee
Filed under: Client Side Coding, SEO Techniques, Search Engine Optimisation, Search Engines, Website Development, Website Marketing, XHTML

Wednesday
Aug 6,2008

photo credit: cote

The rel=”nofollow” attribute on links is very usefull. Additionally nofollow in robots can be usefull. They should not be confused with eachother.

The rel=”nofollow” description below is courtesy of robotstxt.org

The rel=”nofollow” is an attribute you can set on an HTML <a> link tag, invented by Google, and adopted by others. Those links won’t get any credit when Google ranks websites in the search results, thus removing the main incentive behind blog comment spammers robots.

See Preventing comment spam on the Official Google Blog.

From that description it sounds like it only affects the ranking, and the Google robot may still follow the links and index them. If so, it is different from the robots meta tag NOFOLLOW semantics.

Additionally, the below is courtesy of robotstxt.org too

<html>
<head>
<title>...</title>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
</head>
There are two important considerations when using the robots <META> tag:

robots can ignore your <META> tag. Especially malware robots that scan the web for security vulnerabilities, and email address harvesters used by spammers will pay no attention.

the NOFOLLOW directive only applies to links on this page. It’s entirely likely that a robot might find the same links on some other page without a NOFOLLOW (perhaps on some other site), and so still arrives at your undesired page.

Now, get using nofollow links!