If you’ve tried out GA? or Google Personalized Search Switch, please take a moment to either add a comment over at the extension’s page on the Mozilla Addon site (they are in the sandbox) or on the individual blog posts. The reviews will help me get them onto the public Addon site faster and out to the general public. They’ll also help me find out if there are any bugs that need to be fixed up.

Each extension will be undergoing some updates as I work towards version 1.0, but testing is a big part.

Thanks

I’m working on catching up on all my emails and feed reading since my SES San Jose trip. It was a lot of fun and educational too.

Here are some visuals:

Refreshments

Networking

Partying at the Google Dance at Google’s Offices

Inside the Googleplex looking for ranking insider tips or Matt Cutts.

Stalking Matt Cutts.

Totally BFF with Matt Cutts now.*

TopRank Blogging Team, minus the boss.

The boss getting interviewed by NBC.

Many more photos at the TopRank Flickr account and session recaps at the Online Marketing Blog.

As I sit here at SES in San Jose with my MacBook Pro, battery power is one thing I’m keeping an eye on. I did some research before coming on how to save batter power, but I’m looking for more tips.

Here’s what I have so far:

• Turn down the screen brightness as far as it can go and still be usable.
• Turn off BlueTooth
• Turn off Airport when not in use.
• Turn off any applications not in use.
• Turn Quicksliver to only re-index every day, not hour.
• Optimize the energy saver preferences.

I’m off to SES San Jose for the week. If I don’t make any posts, you’ll know why.

If you happen to be out at the search engine strategies conference, keep an eye out for me and say HI! You’ll be able to notice me with my shinny new MacBook Pro!

To get the best results out of Google Analytics, you need to ensure it’s installed on each page of a website. To automatically check for you, I’ve created a Firefox extension to do all the work.

GA? will put a little icon in the status bar of your Firefox web browser. It will then check each page you load to to see if it has Google Analytics installed. If so, it’ll show a colored bar chart. If Google Analytics doesn’t appear to be installed, it’ll show a gray bar chart.

Have you ever wanted to turn Google Personalized Search on or off without logging out of your Google account? Well now you can with the Google Personalized Search Switch for Firefox.

Google Personalized Search Switch is a Firefox extension that adds the ability to turn on and off Google’s personalized search results by just clicking on the icon in the status bar.

When you want personalized search results turned off, click on the eyes and close them. The extension will then add the pre-defined Google variable, &pws=0, to the URL of any future Google web searches. There is no need for you to log out of your Google account.

I’ve been testing and testing site stats ever since Mint 2 came out. I didn’t really want to pay for the upgrade so I ran though a few different services and put them though the tests. I was looking for a quick way to access my visitor stats and in the end, Mint is the best stats program I can find.

If you’ve been watching TV, you may have seen the Ask algorithm commercials. The one I keep seeing is a little kid asking his dad if they have a good algorithm. I’m not sure what audience they are targeting but I doubt many people will understand it. Heck, I’m a search geek and I don’t find it that interesting.

Another one of their billboard says ‘The Algorithm Killed Jeeves’. Well, that doesn’t make me want to use it. If the algorithm offed the butler, it doesn’t sound like a cool thing to me. I liked Jeeves!

I read the SEO Egghead site and caught a post about a new book they were publishing titled Search Engine Optimization with PHP. Very interested in both topics, I got a copy of the book. While paging though it, I was shocked to see a page all about the Chicklet Creator Wordpress plugin!! How exciting is that? I’m published!

Now, I haven’t read the book yet, but since I’m in it, it has to be good. Right?

You can get your copy of Search Engine Optimization with PHP on Amazon today. From what I’ve paged though, it looks like it should be a great read.

One good thing, or bad depending on how it turns out, is that when I go to conferences, I’ll go pretty much anywhere the group goes. Get a bunch of different and you never know where you’ll end up. While at SES in Chicago I found myself at two restaurants I wouldn’t normally try.

The first on was a Thai restaurant. Now if you ask me where I’d like to go eat, I’d say KFC or out for pizza. Thai however has never been on my radar but I went anyways.